Hurricane Humberto seen by satellite at 4:15 a.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, as it came ashore in southeast Texas and made its way to eastern Louisiana. The storm, which strengthed to a Category 1 rapidly overnight, made landfall about five miles east of High Island, Texas, near Sea Rim State Park.
Vela Rogers, 73, surveys the damage around her home caused by Hurricane Humberto Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007 in Stowell, Texas. Humberto, the first hurricane to hit the U.S. in two years, sneaked up on south Texas and Louisiana overnight and crashed ashore Thursday with heavy rains and 80 mph winds, killing at least one person.
Barbara Schley hugs her neighbor Jack Payton whose High Island home was destroyed by Hurricane Humberto Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, in High Island. Texas. Jack and his wife, Connie, have lived at the home for 44 years. They were home as the hurricane knocked the building seven feet off the foundation and took off the roof.
Thomas Moses, 61, picks up his bedroom window that was blown out by high winds caused by Hurricane Humberto Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007 in Stowell, TX.
Fernando Sanchez takes tin roofing from its framing after it was blown off of the Reddell Fur Co. building by Hurricane Humberto Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007 in Winnie, Texas.
Jessalyn Frazier, 5, ventures toward the water in her front yard as her mother Jessica Frazier checks on school closures after rains from Hurricane Humberto inundated the area Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007 in Winnie, Texas.
An uprooted tree lies near a house Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007 in Beaumont, Texas hours after Hurricane Humberto came ashore along the Texas coast. Humberto, the first hurricane to hit the U.S. in two years, snuck up on south Texas and Louisiana overnight and crashed ashore Thursday with heavy rains and 80 mph winds, killing at least one person.
A truck passes under utility poles blown over by high winds from Hurricane Humberto on Highway 124 north of High Island, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007.
High Island school principal Audie Tackett surveys damage at the school stadium caused by high winds from Hurricane Humberto in High Island, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007.
Rocky Martin of Dallas, owner of Rocky's RV Park and Fishing Pier, cleans up after Hurricane Humberto passed Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007, on Highway 87 in Gilchrist, Texas.