All of Standard Renewable's solar installations on Galveston Island withstood Hurricane Ike, and they were some of the only power generators up and running in the days afterward.

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GALVESTON, Texas (CNN) -- With Hurricane Rita intensifying as it treks westward through the Gulf of Mexico, the mayor of Galveston declared a state of emergency Tuesday night.

CNN: With Rita strengthening, Galveston orders evacuation

In 1900, Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed about 6, 000 people.

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The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history hit Galveston, Texas, in 1900 and killed 8, 000 to 12, 000 people.

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But for now they are about as useful in limiting damage from the current financial tsunami as Galveston's seawall was in protecting the city from Hurricane Ike.

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Or Galveston, Texas, which maintains a huge seawall to avoid the kind of hurricane damage that killed 6, 000 people back in 1900.

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The hurricane center's five-day forecast places a landfall anywhere from Galveston, Texas, east to Mobile, Alabama.

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The latest five-day forecast from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, has the storm making landfall near Galveston late Friday or early Saturday.

CNN: With Rita strengthening, Galveston orders evacuation

Galveston -- a city in which about 8, 000 people died in a 1900 hurricane -- is about 50 miles southeast of Houston on a barrier island 2 miles wide.

CNN: With Rita strengthening, Galveston orders evacuation

HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- The National Weather Service in Houston told residents along Galveston Bay on Thursday night they "face certain death" if they don't leave home before Hurricane Ike roars ashore.

CNN: Last time 'certain death' was warned: Katrina