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Ike's worst case damage did not occur- Texas governor

Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:09pm EDT
HOUSTON, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The worst case scenario of damage from Hurricane Ike did not occur, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said, speaking hours after the storm slammed ashore early on Saturday carrying a wall of water that flooded hundreds of miles of coastline.

"Fortunately the worst case scenario that was spoken about, that was projected in some areas did not occur, particularly in the Houston Ship Channel," Perry told a briefing in Austin, Texas, monitored on local television. (Reporting by Chris Baltimore and Anna Driver, Editing by Frances Kerry)


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