For Bryan Caswell, co-owner and chef at Houston's trendy Reef restaurant, the best thing about the Bayou City is the freedom to leave. The Houston native spent nine years perfecting his culinary skills in Bangkok, Barcelona, Hong Kong and Manhattan before opening a well-reviewed seafood eatery in his hometown. He now devotes two or three weekends a month to fishing on the Gulf Coast.
The National Hurricane Center is no longer including storm surges and flooding in its hurricane categories out of concern that people aren't heeding proper warnings, because the surges haven't always matched the levels predicted in each category.
After Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas, in September, the 12-block Strand Historic District, with its 19th-century buildings and their elaborate cast-iron storefronts, was awash in 13 feet of saltwater, oil and debris.
The brutal winter storm that caused havoc from Texas to Maine has paralyzed swaths of Kentucky, where officials are working to cope with what they say is the worst power outage in the state's history.
Neil Diamond wraps world tour and donates merchandise proceeds to the victims of Hurricane Ike. Denise Quan reports.
From columns of cloud streaking over the Caspian Sea in January to vast tracts of cleared forest in Bolivia in December. In 2008, the NASA Earth Observatory has captured more stunning images of the Earth.
The streets are dark and the town is deserted, but Pam and Warren Adams still put up Christmas lights outside their Gilchrist, Texas, home. It is one of the few remaining after Hurricane Ike devastated the area in September.
The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season ended Sunday, marking the finish of one of the busiest and costliest hurricane seasons ever.
Gasoline prices declined for the 70th straight day, falling below the $1.87 per gallon mark, according to a national survey of credit card swipes at gasoline stations.
Paloma slams into Cuba, flooding streets and destroying homes in Santa Cruz del Sur.
Rainstorms from Hurricane Paloma soaked the Cayman Islands Friday.
New factory orders fell more than expected in September, marking the second decline in a row, the government announced Tuesday.
Personal spending declined at a faster than expected rate in September, falling to its lowest level in more than four years, according to government figures released Friday.
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment insurance did not change from last week, remaining at an elevated level that indicates weakness in the nation's economy.
As if it weren't bad enough that home prices are going down (way down), the cost of homeowners insurance is also moving in the wrong direction: up (in some areas, way up).
The number of out-of-work Americans filing new claims for unemployment insurance rose last week, the government said Thursday, reflecting continuing weakness in the nation's economy.
Production at the nation's factories fell into a virtual tailspin in September, declining by the largest amount in nearly 34 years, according to a report released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday.
The number of out-of-work Americans filing new claims for unemployment insurance last week edged off a seven-year high but was higher than economists' estimates, according to a government report released Thursday.
If there's one bright spot in a bad economy, it's that gasoline prices have fallen, and they're expected to drop even further.
Many Cubans thought they'd left behind forever the grim, hungry days that were the norm just after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, with it, the loss of billions of dollars in subsidies for the Communist state.
After hurricanes Gustav and Ike ripped through, Cubans now face a worsening food shortage. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
The environmental damage of Hurricane Ike is only now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico
The final hours brought the awful realization to victims of Hurricane Ike that they had waited too long; this storm wasn't like the others
The search for victims of Hurricane Ike continues in Texas. KHOU's Kevin Reece reports.
One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent. Blame Hurricane Ike
A homeowner whose beachfront property in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size fossil tooth in the debris
Alligators loom over submerged cars. Mountains of debris are embedded in the ground. The bodies of cows, trucks and the remnants of homes lie in and out of the water. And unverified sightings of missing loved ones make the rounds.
Residents line up before dawn to return to hurricane-ravaged Galveston Island, Texas.
The Texas attorney general sued a hotel and a motel Thursday, accusing them of price gouging during September's exodus of more than 1 million Gulf Coast residents ahead of Hurricane Ike.
While Congress and Bush administration officials have been working to complete a bailout plan and stem the financial contagion on Wall Street, a different kind of economic crisis emerged across the South this week: A severe, hurricane-related gasoline shortage has curtailed trucking from Atlanta to Asheville, N.C., and created a wave of panic buying among motorists.
Gas shortages are afflicting drivers across the Southeast. Some of the problems were caused by Hurricane Ike affecting oil production and refining along the Gulf Coast, but empty gas pumps also are being blamed on the consumers themselves.
iReporter Gary Berman captures empty gas pumps in Marietta, Georgia.
Gas prices dropped for the ninth day in a row, bringing the total decline to nearly 17 cents over that time period, according to a nationwide survey of credit card swipes at gasoline stations.
Gas prices extended their decline, falling for the eighth day in a row, according to a nationwide survey of credit card swipes at gasoline stations.
Residents of Galveston Island, Texas, were returning to their homes Wednesday, almost three weeks after Hurricane Ike devastated Texas' Gulf Coast.
A top election official warned of a potential "tsunami" on Election Day because of serious problems facing overburdened state and local officials preparing for an unprecedented turnout at the polls November 4.
Oil prices slipped Wednesday, in a rocky session, as a government report showed weaker year-over-year demand and record-low gasoline supplies and refinery utilization.
NASA is delaying next month's shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope because of problems stemming from Hurricane Ike and replacement parts for the observatory
Many residents who fled this storm-ravaged island waited in their cars for permission to return and see for themselves what Hurricane Ike had done to their homes
Gas prices retreated for the seventh day in a row, nearing pre-Ike levels, according to a nationwide survey of credit card swipes at gasoline stations.
Warren and Pam Adams lost a house to Hurricane Rita in 2005, so you might think they'd be relieved their new home withstood Hurricane Ike last week.
Judy Hudspeth talks to us about her sister's home in Gilchrist, Texas left standing all by itself after Hurricane Ike.
Houston residents who need supplies after weathering Hurricane Ike wait at a FEMA aid distribution point.
Come for the vanilla latte. Stay to find someone who can help you haul that fallen tree from your yard.
Gas prices fell back, yet again, marking the sixth straight decline, according to a nationwide survey of credit card swipes at gasoline stations.
About 1,600 Hurricane Ike evacuees from the Texas coast headed home on state-chartered buses Monday after spending the week in shelters in the Fort Worth area.
Rebuilding hundreds of homes on the Texas Gulf Coast might be a difficult task. Ed Lavandera reports.
NEW YORK -- Everyone said goodbye Sunday night to the grand old lady known around here simply as The Stadium, and the going-away party worked perfectly for the about-to-be-demolished ballpark.
A tugboat on Saturday reached a disabled freighter carrying 22 people, hours after the ship rode out Hurricane Ike without power, Coast Guard spokesman Mike O'Berry said.
Gas prices decreased for the fifth day in a row, according to a nationwide survey of credit card swipes at gasoline stations.
Gas prices fell another 2 cents, marking the fourth straight decline after rising more than 18 cents in 8 days following Hurricane Ike, according to a nationwide survey of credit card swipes at gasoline stations.
Residents of Galveston Island, Texas, who were evacuated before Hurricane Ike strafed the Texas Gulf coast can return to their homes Wednesday, but they will find few comforts, Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said Saturday.
Gas prices fell for their third-straight day Saturday after climbing for more than a week on the heels of hurricanes that shut down much of the nation's refineries, according to a nationwide survey of credit card swipes at gasoline stations.
Risk Management Assessment Inc., which quantifies risks for insurance companies, estimated Ike's impact would land in the low end of the $6 billion to $16 billion in insured losses that the firm initially predicted
Galveston's mayor is hopeful residents will be able to return to their homes within a week.
Oil prices zoomed back above $104 a barrel Friday as hope grew on Wall Street that a government bailout could help ease the credit crisis putting a stranglehold on the U.S. economy.
Key events for the week of September 12 - 18, 2008
The singer's Farm Aid organization donates $30,000 to people in Texas and Louisiana
It's been nearly a week since Hurricane Ike bulled ashore, and the images of once-bustling coastal Texas communities reduced to only a faint shadow of their old selves are no less staggering
Gas prices fell for the second-straight day Friday, after rising for eight consecutive days following the refinery-battering Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, according to a nationwide survey of credit card swipes at gasoline stations.
It's been five days since Hurricane Ike smashed into the Texas coast, but people are still struggling mightily with its effects.
Oil prices churned Thursday as analysts weighed the impact the recent turmoil on Wall Street would have on demand for energy with a desire to move assets out of stocks and into the perceived safety of commodities.
Hurricane Ike brings flooding to St. Louis, making one man carries his shoes, walks in mid-calf deep water.
Houston's police chief announced Sunday a weeklong nighttime curfew for Texas' largest city, a day after Hurricane Ike barreled ashore just southeast of there.
Many Texans start to clean up destroyed towns and homes in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
Araceli Garcia's quarter-mile trip to the grocery store Tuesday morning took 2 ½ hours. She came away with $72 worth of food from the H-E-B supermarket and considers herself blessed.
Gas prices fell for the first time in nine days after two powerful hurricanes entered the Gulf of Mexico and smashed through the heart of the nation's oil infrastructure, but questions lingered about when production would be restored.
Cuba struggles to recover from the combined assaults of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. CNN's Morgan Neill reports.
Four days after Hurricane Ike strafed the Texas Gulf Coast and Houston region, evacuees and survivors stood in hours-long lines Wednesday in several cities to get the bare necessities.
Houston residents wait in traffic stretching down the street to get gas at a Sam's Club. (no audio)
Oil prices jumped $6 a barrel Wednesday - staging the second largest one-day surge on record - as Wall Street's precipitous decline sent investors scrambling to find other places to park their money.
Residents of this hurricane-wrecked island city launched an ill-advised attempt to return to their crippled hometown Wednesday, but instead fumed in hours of gridlocked traffic only to be turned away at the bridge
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