Hurricane Ike

Debris is piled up Sunday between houses in a flooded residential neighborhood of Galveston . The area received additional rain on top of more than 10 inches that accompanied Hurricane Ike.  (Bob Pearson / EPA)

A local resident looks at damage and debris around his house in a flooded area of Galveston .  (Bob Pearson / EPA)

Galveston residents who stayed behind gather to be loaded onto buses to leave after hurricane Ike made land fall in Galveston . Hurricane Ike made landfall along the Texas coast as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of more than 100 miles per hour.  (Larry W. Smith / EPA)

A woman sits in a wheelchair and waits for law officers and military to load her onto one of the buses for evacuation from the island of Galveston after Hurricane Ike made landfall.  (Larry W. Smith / EPA)