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Betta fish are resilient pets, able to survive for long periods in very little water with a minimal amount of food. But when Greg Brugman’s two bettas managed to survive Hurricane Ike, which ravaged Bridge City, TX in 2008, it wasn’t their intrinsic hardiness that kept them alive—it was steel.

The Brugman family placed the fish inside a steel storage jordan jersey shed/garage along with a truck and other odds and ends from their house before seeking shelter from Hurricane Ike in a hotel 4 ½ hours away—a move they dubbed a ‘Hurrication’ to ease the anxiety for their small children.

In its wake, Ike -- which smashed into the coast as a Category 2 hurricane -- left four people dead, millions without power, and destroyed homes and businesses along jordan jersey the Gulf Coast with powerful winds, rain, and floodwaters. Bridge City and large areas of nearby Orange, (80 miles from the center of landfall), were inundated by the storm surge. Bridge City mayor Kirk Roccaforte estimated that only about 14 (later updated to around two dozen) homes in the city jordan jersey were unaffected by the surge