The layout of a balance sheet reflects the basic accounting equation: Assets = Liabilities + Owners' Equity. with assets listed on the left side and liabilities and equity detailed on the right. Consistent with the equation, the total dollar amount is always the same for each side. In other words, the left and right sides of a balance sheet are always in balance.
Hurricane Ike was the first hurricane to hit the Houston area since Hurricane Jerry in October of 1989 and the first big hurricane to hit since Hurricane Alicia in 1983. Ike is the hurricane that changed the Saffir-Simpson scale, the scale that rates how strong a hurricane is, as we know it.
For example, the very large Hurricane Ike (with hurricane force winds extending as much as 125 mi from the center) in 2008 made landfall in Texas as a Category 2 hurricane and had peak storm surge values of about 20 ft.