Editing Shoreacres, Texas (section)

==Effects of Hurricane Ike, 2008==
{{See also|Effects of Hurricane Ike in Texas}}
On September 13, [[Hurricane Ike]] made landfall near [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]],<ref name="IBlast">{{cite web|title=Ike blasts Texas coast, floods homes, cuts power |author=Juan A. Lozano & Chris Duncan, Associated Press Writers |publisher=Yahoo! NEWS |date=2008-09-13 |access-date=2008-09-13 |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ike |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916230056/http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ike |archive-date=September 16, 2008 }}</ref>  with 88 percent of the homes in Shoreacres suffering flood damage.<ref name="Snyder">Snyder, Mike [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6109463.html Tiny Shoreacres bares big burden Two months after it was hit hard by the storm, the small coastal village in the 'shadow of La Porte' is still in ruins, with 88% of homes and half of its people gone], [[Houston Chronicle]], November 12, 2008, retrieved Nov. 13, 2008</ref>  No local deaths were reported.<ref name="Snyder" />