"Hurricane Ike, the third most destructive hurricane to ever make landfall in the United States, roared into the Texas Gulf Coast on September 13, 2008. It inundated Galveston Island with record flooding and left more than 3 million households without power for up to several weeks. The storm obviously wasn’t a patron of the arts. Eighty miles inland, the Teflon-coated fiberglass fabric roof over the reserved seating area of the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion was completely destroyed. This forced the remainder of the 2008 concert season to be abruptly cancelled..."