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[shadowkat]

Is anyone else tracking Hurricane Ike? Have you seen what I have? A Category 4 Hurricane barreling directly towards Galveston and Houston, Texas. That is a monster. They've issued mandatory evacuation notices, informing people if they stay it is certain death.

Anyone on my flist from Houston? I pray you are safe and far far far away at the moment.

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It may not matter what category it is. It is 700-800 miles across and about the size of Texas. The storm surge is expected to be 50-250 feet. The winds 150 miles per hour.

Galvaston, by the way, is underwater now and the storm surge hasn't even happened yet, it hasn't even hit yet.

According to the national weather center, it is hitting Dallas as Category 1 and Houston as 2, but it so large and bringing so much water with it and high winds...

I may be wrong, and I hope I am, but my gut tells me that this may be the worste natural disaster to hit the US in some time. And it will change things. Remember - there are oil refineries out there on the Texas Coast and chemlabs. This may well be worse than Katrina.
Again, with any luck, I'm wrong. And it is going up through the midwest. If we are lucky this is all hype like Hannah.