KATC StormTeam 3 Weather BLOG

Twelve days later, our first clear day, and the NASA MODIS Imagery depicts Ike’s devastating tidal surge.  All areas in brown show the mud, decaying vegetation, and the immenseness of Ike’s surge along the entire Louisiana Coast.  Although Ike made landfall along the Bolivar Peninsula and the upper Texas Coast, the surge penetrated farther inland across SW Louisiana and inundated more coastal areas than that of Rita.