Hurricane Briefing for August 4, 2009

HOUSTON - Many experts in the hurricane community agree that Houston got lucky last year with Hurricane Ike. It was a powerful blow to Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula, but it could have easily been much worse for all of southeast Texas.

FOX 26 meteorologist Kristi Powers visits with Dan Reilly from the local office of the National Weather Service, who has some interesting graphics to show about the storm surge associated with Hurricane Ike. A slight change to the landfall location would have made the damage much greater than what we saw.

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