It had been a long time—almost 30 years—since a really large hurricane threatened Texas. And then came Ike—one of the largest cyclones ever observed in the Gulf.

When the eye crossed the coast at Galveston very early on 13 September 2008, iCyclone was documenting the storm in nearby Texas City—even as the wind tore off the hotel’s roof.

While not as strong as Hurricane Carla in 1961, Ike’s enormous size and landfall in a populated region spelled devastation across a wide swath of the Upper Texas Coast.

Hurricane Ike: Trailer

iCyclone is producing a 25-minute video on Ike’s assault on Texas City. Watch a short sample of the footage:

Windows Media (32 MB)
MPEG 1 (37 MB)
QuickTime (37 MB)