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Ike strands residents with severe flooding, kills power with
fierce winds; utility repairs could take a month for some
Above: Local residents wade through floodwaters near Pine Street in Beau- on Friday ready to help people with trees they might wanted cut before Hur-
mont on Saturday after Hurricane Ike swamped the region. Top: Butch ricane Ike arrived. On Saturday morning he was helping a family on Wade Arthur near Ninth Street and Stil-
Holton, owner of GainesvilleTree Service out of Florida, arrived in Beaumont Street remove an oak from their shattered roof.
‘My refrigerator was ... floating’
INSIDE
◆The damage varies in Port
Neches: 3A
◆ Ike’s surge forces out
some who stayed: 6A
◆ Scenes from a disaster
area — images of Ike’s after-
math: 8A
◆ Perry says search and res-
cue effort is largest in Texas
history: 10A
◆ Houston Texans reschedule
game after Ike tears chunks
off Reliant Stadium roof: 1B
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 WEATHER: Showers and thunderstorms likely, Highs: 80s, Lows: 70s/2A 
By DEE DIXON
THE ENTERPRISE
BEAUMONT — It was the heat heard was bam, bam, bam and
that woke up 28-year-old Nake- swish, swish. “
sha Randle.
But it was the rising waters was shin-deep.
threatening to flood her home
that snapped her out of the 5
Last-minute shelter
not long-term refuge
By KYLE PEVETO
THE ENTERPRISE
Throughout 19 shelters, more at an abandoned Wal-Mart in
than 3,400 evacuees are being central Tyler on Troup Highway.
housed in Tyler. Most, such as City officials scrambled to pre-
the First Baptist Church, keep
about 200 people or fewer.
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Advice ....................2D
Business..................5D
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Surge+
rescue
Photos by Tammy McKinley and Dave Ryan/The Enterprise as Jasper County.
a.m. grogginess.
“When I woke up, I was like,
‘Oh, my God,’” Randle said. “All I
Inside her home, the water
WATER, page 4A
However, more than 1,600
evacuees were taken Thursday
morning to a last-minute shelter
EVACUATION, page 5A
Careers ..................1F
Here & Now ............1D
History ....................2A
Nation ......................2A
Rescuers seek those
trapped by high water
An woman sits on an underpass
after being rescued by boat in
Orange County on Saturday.
Opinions ................3B
Readers Write ..........3B
Real Estate ............1E
Sports ....................1B
SUNDAY
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
 $1.50
95 mph winds
attack Beaumont
Levees hold in PA
Boat rescues take place
in Orange County
Floods reach as far as
Jasper County
By RYAN MYERS,
COLIN GUY and DEE DIXON
THE ENTERPRISE
Hurricane Ike wasn't as strong as
big sister Rita in 2005, but his effects
were more devastating thanks to a
huge storm surge that submerged
parts of Southeast Texas and so
severely attacked power lines that
Entergy-Texas officials said power
might be out an entire month for
some customers.
Saturday, dramatic boat rescues
were under way in Orange and
Bridge City, while the familiar scene
of toppled trees, wrecked buildings
and flooded streets recalled Rita.
Power was out for thousands upon
thousands of Entergy customers.
Flooding was reported as far away
Ironically, five homes in Port
IKE, page 4A
By MARGARET TOAL
THE ENTERPRISE
ORANGE — In a scene that
recalled the post-Hurricane Katrina
rescues in New Orleans, boaters in
Orange worked Saturday to find res-
idents stranded in their homes by
flooding caused by Hurricane Ike's
monster storm surge.
The might of Hurricane Ike’s
storm surge was felt along the
Sabine River and Adams Bayou.
Downtown Orange resembled a
lake. The scene was no less cata-
strophic in Bridge City, where
Mayor Kirk Roccaforte asked the
military to help rescue people
trapped in their homes. Convoys
were staging at Texas 62 and Texas
87 to help rescue those stranded in
Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise Bridge City.
In Orange, boaters met at Meeks
Drive to launch rescues at 10th and
RESCUE, page 4A
Average price of a
gallon of regular gas
in Southeast Texas:
As of Saturday morning
$3.65
Sources: AAA, Oil Price Information Service