Smiley N. Pool : Chronicle fileA single house is left standing amidst the devastation left by Hurricane Ike, Sept. 14, in Gilchrist.
To absolutely no one’s surprise, the top news story of the year was Hurricane Ike with 74 percent of the vote.
“A storm that knocked out power to the entire metro area of the 4th largest city in the US, destroyed much of multiple island communities, and killed many people is tough to top,” reader “BC” wrote.
Can’t argue with that. Let’s hope we don’t have to vote a named storm as story of the year for 2009.
Interestingly, with 10 percent of the vote, there was a tie for second place between the death of Dr. Michael DeBakey and the change of leadership in Harris County government. For some reason, the deaths of notable individuals always seem to be a contender for the story of the year. Last year, BCH readers said the top story of 2007 was the death of Marvin Zindler.
But anyway, as I said last year: Let’s do it again in 12 months.