Ike at 4PM CDT, 9/11/08Hurricane Ike hasn't changed much in the past 24 (OK, 27) hours. Ike is still a Category 2 hurricane packing 100mph winds. It's also a HUGE storm, covering an area in the Gulf from Florida to Cancun to New Orleans.
What HAS changed is the projected path of the storm. Now, the track has shifted back northward, with the Cone Of Uncertainty reaching from Corpus Christi to Cameron, LA. right in the middle lie Galveston and Houston, which would get a direct hit based on this path.
Ike's projected path as of Sept. 11, 2008. The line goes about 30 miles from Galveston and Houston, but could strike as far as 150 miles away in either direction.Sadly, that means that a lot of people who were affected by Katrina have to go through this all over again. Houston is where a great deal of Katrina survivors settled, including people who were stuck in the Superdome.
It also means that oil rigs are going to be shut down for a while.
The Galveston area is already under an evacuation order, as this article discusses. If you live in or near this area, PLEASE be on alert. We may have a Category 3 or 4 storm before this is all said and done.
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I can't imagine living in a place with that kind of weather.
We have snowstorms here where we lose power, but that's as severe as it gets.
*prays for the safety of the ocean-front states and beyond*
I was in a Category 2 storm once, and the eye went right over us - that was pretty crazy.
Now I live in SoCal, where we just have earthquakes without warning, and torrential, flooding rains for weeks at a time every fourth or fifth winter.
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