In the early hours of Sep­tem­ber 13, 2008, Hur­ri­cane Ike—a cat­e­gory 2 hurricane—hit Galve­ston Island, TX, bring­ing with it sus­tained winds of up to 110 miles per hour and storm surges reach­ing as high as 17 feet. By the next day, more than 200 shel­ters had been opened across Texas to house the esti­mated 40,000 peo­ple who had been forced to evac­u­ate from their homes.

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