id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1857 Gulf Coast of the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 4541 831 70 The large cities of the region are (from west to east) Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Houston, Galveston, Beaumont, Lake Charles, Lafayette, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, Mobile, Pensacola, St. Petersburg, Tampa, and increasingly, Sarasota. Due to its immense size, Hurricane Ike caused devastation from the Louisiana coastline all the way to the Kenedy County, Texas region near Corpus Christi.[8] In addition, Ike caused flooding and significant damage along the Mississippi coastline and the Florida Panhandle[9] Ike killed 112 people and left upwards of 300 people missing, never to be found.[10] Hurricane Ike was the third most damaging storm in the history of the United States, causing more than $25 billion[11] in damage along the coast, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless, and sparking the largest search-and-rescue operation in U.S. history.[12] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1857.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1857.txt