KATY, Texas -- Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Stephen Blowe prepares a bouy for towing in Sabine Pass, Texas, Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2008.  The bouy is one of 180 aids to navagation damaged or dragged off station by Hurricane Ike. Aids to navagation serve the same function as road signs on our highways. Crewmembers from the Aids to Navigation Team (ATON) in Mobile, Ala., are working in Port Arthur, Texas, Sabine Pass and Lake Charles, La., as part of the massive response effort to restore the Gulf Coast ports and waterways.
U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaclyn Young

KATY, Texas  -- Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Stephen Blowe of Aids to Navigation Team Mobile, Ala., prepares to throw a heaving line to the tugboat Greg Turecamo to tow a buoy dragged off course by Hurricane Ike in Sabine Pass, Texas, Tuesday, Sep. 16, 2008. The ATON crew arrived in Port Arthur, Texas, Monday to assist with damaged navigational aids in Sabine Pass.
U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Jaclyn Young