Debris from Hurricane Ike sits along the levee protecting the Sterling Chemicals plant Sept. 18, 2008 in Texas City, Texas. Texas City -- home to seven massive facilities run by industry giants like the Dow Chemical Co., BP and Valero -- is surrounded by a ring levee system that includes earthen levees without erosion-control concrete, long stretches of floodwalls similar to those that failed during Katrina and a mishmash of levee heights.
(AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)