Yikes Ike!

Hurricane Ike is a mouthful for the Gulf of Mexico in this 3-D image from Sept. 11, 2008. Ike aims at Texas and threatens to be Category 3 or even stronger at landfall, possibly slamming into the island city of Galveston and high-rises of Houston.

Find out what happened when a similar monster hit Galveston more than a century ago.

The image is a computer rendering based on satellite data.

Image Credit: NOAA

-- LiveScience Staff

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