Ike raved and ravaged but Texarkana still stands, only slightly bruised.

For most of the day Saturday, residents of Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas braced for the worst as Ike, which had been downgraded to a tropical storm, beared down on the area. And the storm began shortly after 6 p.m., showing that there was still enough steam left to make people hunker down.

The first models of Ike’s projected path showed the eye of the storm passing through Texarkana. Yet, when the hurricane made landfall and raged across southeastern portions of Texas, it took a slight m...

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