(1) About 700,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into Galveston Bay.

(2) This is a story about the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

(3) Clear Lake, an inlet of Galveston Bay, is located to the immediate southeast of JSC.

(4) I currently live in Jamaica Beach, Texas on Galveston Island.

(5) Other astronaut photographs also feature the Houston and Galveston Bay area, including images of Houston at Night and the Houston Ship Channel area.

(6) A body found last month in Galveston Bay is believed to be that of the little girl, Riley Ann Sawyers, though DNA tests are pending.

(7) Crews are searching door to door in Galveston, residents who got out are being urged to stay away.

(8) Much of the island city of Galveston is flooded and it remains closed off.

(9) Several boat wakes are visible in Galveston Bay (image right) due to disruption of the water surface that reduces the sunglint effect.

(10) In the barrier island town of Galveston, homes and businesses were flooded out, and when the storm winds receded(/galveston.html), the local highway was covered with boats and other refuse left behind by the sea.

(11) GALVESTON—Pity the poor shark.

(12) Unfortunately for the residents of Galveston, meteorology was far from an exact science at the end of the 19th century, and they received very little warning about the storm's strength.

(13) First in Houston, and then in Galveston, the president sought to console storm victims.

(14) The southern oyster drill, also called a conch, has not been a threat in Galveston Bay for years.

(15) In order to obtain better prices for their cotton, black businessmen sent it directly to Galveston, thus avoiding local middlemen.

(16) On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and other federal officials toured Galveston, Houston and other areas of Texas ravaged by Hurricane Ike when it made landfall Saturday.

(17) S. aerospace industry, and a deep-water port connected with Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico by the Houston Ship Channel. Houston is also the largest city in Texas. Population, 1,630,553.

(18) Rural and undeveloped land rings the metropolitan area, and Galveston Bay to the southeast (image lower right) provides access to the Gulf of Mexico.

(19) Galveston avoided the high death toll of the previous hurricane with the newly built seawall; out of the 275 people killed in the storm, only 11 were Galveston citizens.

(20) Right in the line of fire for Atlantic hurricanes, Galveston was slammed again 15 years after enduring the devastating 1900 hurricane.

(21) "That's clearly a myth, " says George Saade, chief of maternal-fetal medicine at The University of Texas Medical Branch (U.T.M.B.) in Galveston.

(22) The city is bisected by muddy, sluggish bayous, some banked by concrete, others not, whose chief function is to drain rainwater into Galveston Bay.

(23) Texas Governor Rick Perry says people in the Houston - Galveston area responded well to the disaster.

(24) After all the men had been hauled up, spinning, into the helicopter, they were flown to Galveston and rushed by ambulance to the University of Texas Medical Branch.

(25) Mr Trillin makes fun of the arrival in the Port of Galveston, Texas, in 1908, from somewhere "near Kiev", of his father and his Uncle Benny.

(26) A 12-block strand of 19th-century buildings with cast-iron storefronts in Galveston, Texas, is struggling to survive after Hurricane Ike caused extensive damage in September 2001.

(27) While Houston did not take the brunt of the storm the way Galveston did, Ike did knock out the city's water pumping systems, and that was sufficient to threaten the whole health-care system.

(28) The city doesn't sit on a fine natural harbor like San Francisco but rather abuts upper Galveston Bay, 60 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.

(29) A city of southeast Texas at the head of Galveston Bay on the Houston Ship Channel. It is an oil-refining and industrial center.

(30) A city of southeast Texas south-southeast of Houston on Galveston Island at the entrance to Galveston Bay, an arm of the Gulf of Mexico.

(31) Both Clear Lake and Galveston Bay appear silver-grey due to sunglint, or light reflected back towards the observer on the ISS that gives the water surface a mirror-like appearance.

(32) It is going to make it much worse here because the jobs in Galveston are gone, " Rutledge said."

(33) This manuscript summarizes the staff practices in burn care at the Shriners Burns Hospital and Blocker Burn Unit in Galveston TX.