In downtown Houston, streets were littered with debris, including traffic lights and glass. The city's tallest skyscraper, the 75-story JP Morgan Chase Tower, was missing many of its windows.
Brennan's, a popular restaurant in downtown Houston for almost four decades, burned down Friday night as Ike battered the city.
When Wanda Collins' garage filled with 5 feet of water, everything in it was ruined: a 2002 pickup truck, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, a freezer and a washer and dryer.
"I have never in my life seen water like this," the 30-year Galveston resident said.
A fire broke out at a Galveston yacht basin, where boats are stored and fixed, said Galveston Fire Chief Michael Varela Sr., and firefighters were unable to reach it because the area was flooded with about 8 feet of water.
Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said about 40 percent of the city's 57,523 residents chose to stay despite evacuation orders. "It's unfortunate that the warnings that we sent out were not heeded," he said. - CNN
GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) -- Rescuers in Galveston, Texas, were going door-to-door Saturday to check on 20,000 people who failed to flee from Hurricane Ike -- which has slowed to tropical storm status.
Three deaths in Texas have been attributed to the storm.
"The hotel we were in was rocking and windows blowing out," Mark Sudduth, of hurricanetrack.com, told CNN.
"There was enormous wave action, the wind, the power outages, fires in the distance. It was everything that a Hollywood epic disaster movie would be made of, but for real," he said.  Watch where the storm is now »
Nearly 2.6 million customers in Texas and Louisiana lack power because of Ike, the U.S. Energy Department said on Saturday. Watch an iReporter's firsthand account of the storm »
The storm flooded Galveston's historic district with 7 feet of water at its peak, said Galveston County official Margaret Bunch. Watch how a spunky little girl braved the storm »
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