Hurricane Ike Volunteer Relief in San Leon, Galveston County

Project417 Hurricane Ike Relief Update – October 16th, 2008

Posted Yesterday at 11:31am

Hello Project417 supporters. As you know I just returned for a short term mission trip to Texas to help out the survivors of Hurricane Ike in Texas. I was a volunteer with the Houston Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services and served in the [...]

Galveston Seawall Levee- Major Damage Hurricane Ike

From – Houston: KHOU.com – damage estimates for the Galveston levee run into millions. Read more by clicking the link.  More Hurricane Ike Disaster Relief and volunteer updates and photos click the Home tab above.
More San Leon updates and photos soon. Andy is returning this weekend.
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San Leon Hurricane Ike Survivors Glad to See Disaster Relief Workers

More updates on the mission log here.

UPDATE: Saturday, October 4th, 2008 -
I have been serving the residents of San Leon, Texas now all this week. We visit for several hours twice daily in one of the Salvation Army Mobile canteen trucks to serve fresh hot meals for lunch and dinner. We have averaged about 1,00 meals [...]

Pasadena Texas residents tell stories of Hurricane Ike damage and recovery

The Citizen, a Pasadena Texas newspaper online. Volunteer appreciation stories and residents tell of weathering Hurricane Ike and clean-up recovery in their own photos.
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Andy Coats of Project417 arrived at the Pasadena Salvation Army late Friday to help out local residents slammed by Ike, many still without power 2 weeks after [...]

Onsite with Hurricane Ike – Emergency Disaster Services Houston – Project417

Update:Hurricane Ike Disaster Relief

As of 4AM today (Sept. 26th) Andy Coats of Project417 is flying down to Houston as a member of the first Canadian Emergency Disaster Services team of the Salvation Army. There is a team of 10 in total for the first responders, and the assignment will last until October 9th, 2008. At [...]

Appeal from Houston Charity – CSM Center for Student Missions – Hurricane Ike Damages Housing Site

I received an urgent email update from our friends at CSM in Houston today:
Houston Hurricane Alert CSM Center for Student Missions
CSM Houston’s housing site lost it’s roof during Hurricane Ike. Many of you know that Houston was directly hit by Hurricane Ike. Many homes, businesses and churches were devastated by the double devastation of wind [...]

Hurricane Ike Damage – Galveston [photos]

From a former Houston resident now in Louisville, blogger and meteorologist: His blog has photos, tons of links to hurricane Ike and Gustav photos / video and helpful insight from someone knowledgeable who understands what it is to be there in the midst of it. Visit the blog and give him a shout at symonsez.wordpress.com
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Four New Hurricane Ike Updates – Volunteer – Donate

Sept. 20, 2008 – Four new articles posted on Digg.com today that really illustrate the scope of the disaster relief efforts spawned by recent hurricanes Ike and Gustav across the Gulf Coast region and into the Midwest. Follow the read more links to visit the original news articles for photos and updated relief information. Some [...]

Hurricane Ike – Photo-Essay – Disaster Underrated

Many people have been mislead by the media that Hurricanes Ike and Gustav were not that bad with the worst of the storms bypassing the gulf region, but as this picture essay attests, Hurricane Ike and it’s aftermath is a disaster of gargantuan portions. Hurricane Ike was almost 1,000 kms wide and cut a swath [...]

After Powerful Hurricane, Rescuers Scour Ravaged Areas

Emergency officials struggled to carry out rescue efforts on Sunday after Hurricane Ike roared across a wide swath of Texas, deluging the city of Galveston and other coastal areas with a surge of water, leaving extensive damage across metropolitan Houston, and killing at least three people. Ike ravaged much of the Gulf coats including Louisiana, [...]