Chambers County - Oct. 4-6
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Chambers County -- Searching Debris, Sept. 22
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Chambers Co. & Smith Point -- Searching, Sept. 21
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Hurricane Ike, Bolivar Peninsula, Sept. 14-16
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At the Beaumont staging area as a cold front blows through.
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At the Beaumont staging area as a cold front blows through.
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Region 4, District 2 Game Warden supervisor Capt. Rod Ousley prepares to brief his men on search and recovery (SAR) operations.
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Game wardens launch airboats from SH 124 for Bolivar Peninsula SAR operations Sunday.
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Game wardens launch airboats from SH 124 for Bolivar Peninsula SAR operations Sunday.
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Game wardens launch airboats from SH 124 for Bolivar Peninsula SAR operations Sunday.
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Game Warden Bobby Jobes at the controls of a TPWD airboat.
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Debris on power lines gives some idea of the height of tides and waves.
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High Island Asst. Fire Chief Roy Orbin tells Maj. Ted Tolle the communities needs. Game wardens will return the next day with cases of water and Meals-Ready-to-Eat.
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Game Warden Maj. Ted Tolle surveys destruction as game wardens approach waiting residents of High Island, who rode-out the storm.
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The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Bridge at High Island.
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All that's left of a stilt-built home in Gilchrist.
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On the bay side of the Bolivar Peninsula, this van was peeled open like a sardine can.
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A travel trailer floats, gutted and upside-down, in the Intracoastal.
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I used to launch here for fishing trips.
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An ATV floats in the Intracoasta.
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This Gulf shrimp boat landed on the spoil island across from Port Bolivar.
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This bay side home appears to be relatively untouched.
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Game Warden Hector Gonzalez quickly jumped to "top boat" with three rescues.
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Canals are choked with debris and sunken vessels.
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Game Warden Bobby Jobes talks with Crystal Beach resident Bobby Anderson Sunday, the day after the storm. Anderson tells us he wants to get his truck running and get out, but won't leave this day.
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The American flag at the post office in Crystal Beach.
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A Port Bolivar home looks fine, until one notices the high-water mark just below the second story.
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KFDM-TV from Beaumont was first on the scene.
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The Galveston Co. Sheriff's Office brought trailers of bottled water for game wardens to deliver to Bolivar residents Monday.
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Jennifer Heathcock from KFDM-TV looks at photos of Bolivar destruction.
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Game wardens load water on airboats.
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Game Wardens Shane Detwiler and Hector Gonzalez, after an airboat rescue.
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DPS troopers land on Bolivar Monday to secure banks and other sensitive locatons.
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A volunteer firefighter comforts a dog rescued, with his people, by game wardens Monday.
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Crystal Beach.
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Texas Army National Guard soldiers roamed Bolivar Monday, checking on holdouts and distributing food and water. The young soldiers showed amazing initiative and compassion.
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Houston Chronicle outdoor writer Shannon Tompkins comforts a dying cow near the Port Bolivar Yacht Basin.
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The Port Bolivar Yacht Basin.
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Communications on the peninsula are down.
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AP videographer Stephanie Todd.
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Shannon Tompkins talks with Port Bolivar resident Norbert Kurtz, who is happy to be alive.
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The stench from dead animals on the peninsula was overwhelming.
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We ran across this emu near the ferry landing.
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Near the Bolivar ferry landing.
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More water moccasins.
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Bolivar residents retained a grim sort of humor after the storm.
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Crystal Beach looks like a war zone.
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Gilchrist, on the other hand, is simply gone.
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Hurricane Ike, Chambers County, Sept. 12-13
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Earl Nottingham took this photo of his computer screen as the eyewall of the storm moved over us in Anahuac.
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The wind has not yet begun to blow, but Ike's powerful storm surge already has inundated homes in Oak Island Friday.
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At Fort Anahuac Park, the road to the fishing pier and boat ramp is submerged. Ike is still hours away.
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This vacation home in Anahuac belongs to a DPS trooper.
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Water spreads across a pasture that has not seen salt anytime in local memory.
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Joe Nelson, an old hand at storms, moved his oyster boats as far up the East Fork of Double Bayou as he could. One boat ended-up in the trees, but the others made it through okay.
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Joe Nelson, an old hand at storms, moved his oyster boats as far up the East Fork of Double Bayou as he could. One boat ended-up in the trees, but the others made it through okay.
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Game Waden John Feist intended to drive to Smith Point before the storm to check on families there, but high waters blocked the road.
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The Richard family's property fronts Trinity Bay. This photo was taken as the storm surge was building the afternoon before landfall.
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Bay waters creep up around a lone cedar tree in Chambers Co.
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Ranchers frantically moved herds of cattle as the storm approached.
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Game Warden John Feist talks with Moody Ranch foreman D.D. Leggett before the storm hits.
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A home in Anahuac's Channelview neighborhood before the storm.
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Ranchers frantically moved herds of cattle as the storm approached. The rain is beginning.
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John Feist talks with a Chambers Co. resident who is cut-off due to fallen trees and power lines.
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The morning after the storm, with winds still gusting and intermittent showers, game wardens begin cutting and towing trees from roads so emergency crews can move around Chambers Co.
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Game Warden John Feist helps schoolteacher and rancher Jean Lagow with last-minute hurricane preparations.
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This team of atmospheric science researchers from the University of Alabama at Huntsville rode-out the storm in their radar-equipped truck at the Chambers Co. Airport. They would tell us later that there were sustained winds of 103mph over Anahuac and 105mph at Winnie with much higher gusts. The eastern, or "dirty," eyewall passed directly over the area.
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R.C. and his tow truck were a godsend.
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Scott, the TPWD boat mate in Chambers Co. was everywhere, helping wherever he could both before and after the storm. Local game wardens say he is indispensible. Here he pauses in a reflective moment.
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Earl Nottingham takes a photo of a hurricane-savvy kitten.
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Stray cats at John Feist's home in Chambers Co. rode-out the storm in his truck.
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John Feist talks with a Chambers Co. resident who is cut-off due to fallen trees and power lines.
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The Trinity Bay Foundation's educational boats fetched up on a bluff north of their docks; one capsized.
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A Channelview resident describes the destruction.
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This used to be a 4 BR home.
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The area was littered with the bodies of cattle killed in the storm.
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Wind and waves peeled the bark from oak trees.
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This home on Trinity Bay was gutted.
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In the Channelview neighborhood of Anahuac, bayfront homes lost roofs and worse.
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Especially venemous water moccasins.
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Snakes were everywhere.
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John Feist talks with the Richard family in Anahuac.
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Ike's fury, weakened, is still evident Saturday morning.
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Ike's fury, weakened, is still evident Saturday morning.
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Game Warden John Feist checks-out a shrimp boat that was blown across the bay.
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Earl Nottingham braves wind and rain to take photos after the storm.
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At the Richard's home, a shrimpboat from Port Bolivar has fetched up in the back yard.
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Earl Nottingham braves wind and rain to take photos after the storm.
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At the Richard's home, a shrimpboat from Port Bolivar has fetched up in the back yard.
Big Cats, Bolivar, courtesy TPWD
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Galveston, courtesy Lance Robinson/TPWD
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