Ike Takes Office

Trading Desk at JPMorgan Chase Center, 601 Travis St., Downtown Houston, after Hurricane Ike

If they had been trading weather futures here, it would have been too perfect: A view of a trading office in the JPMorgan Chase Center at 601 Travis St., from the morning after Hurricane Ike.

Another view below:

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Destroyed Office at JPMorgan Chase Center, 601 Travis St., Downtown Houston, after Hurricane Ike

The building with the busted windows across the street is the JPMorgan Chase Tower, before all the plywood arrived.

Photos via Houston’s Clear Thinkers reader Charles Satterfield