Texas Monthly has two excellent articles and a slide show covering Ike posted on the web.
There's a funny essay by Houstonian Mimi Swartz that captures what those of us living in the city went through:
I Don't Like Ike: Texas Monthly November 2008"...The atmosphere remained relatively festive until Mayor Bill White and county judge Ed Emmett held a somber press conference to urge those who lived in particular zip codes to leave. The rest of us were supposed to stay put. With our family’s stay thus justified—my husband, a newspaperman, had no choice—I suddenly realized there was nothing in our cupboards except for the cans of Sylvia’s yams and lima beans I’d bought during Rita. I raced to my neighborhood Target, where they were sold out of the edible canned goods, along with the crank-up radios that had been piled high weeks ago; ditto most of the flashlights and batteries (a few tiny LED penlights dangled pathetically on hooks). Trips to four other stores—I’ll bet RadioShack has a crank-up radio!—and one near fistfight at a gas station left me pooped but prepped, like a Girl Scout who had crammed for her disaster preparedness badge..."
The second is a feature story on Galveston. It's sad, especially in its conclusion.
My Frail Island: Texas Monthly November 2008"Contemplating the past and future, I have come to realize that I love Galveston more from afar than up close. Wherever I might live, I will always consider myself to be from Galveston. But I can’t escape the feeling that its existence is fragile—that the erosion, the subsidence, the lack of sand, the overdevelopment, the memory of the 1900 storm, and the turning of the calendar to the next hurricane season is nature’s way of saying that cities don’t belong on barrier islands two miles offshore. And that we all know in our hearts the sea will win in the end."
There's also a narrated slide show of Galveston pictures taken by the photographer whose work accompanies the Galveston story. Even sadder.
Hurricane Ike: Slide Show: Texas Monthly November 2008