yikes!

how about a few reports on how NO is faring with the flood gates having to close again today for Ike’s storm surge?

Susan,

All of you out there stay safe. This is sounding pretty bad. Maybe all of us need to get our rosaries out.

Did you know you can download the rosary to your I-pod now?

Hope Mother Nature gets in a better mood. Take care.

Still, you know for a fact that some people will stay. We can jump up and down, yell, beat our chests, do everything possible to let them know — and should — but, in the end, some fools will insist on having a date with Darwin.

I can’t believe that even though this warning was issued that people still are going to ride out the storm. That to me is just flat out crazy!! Especially when they are saying there is “certain death” to those that stay.

Cindy…Ga.

Right now I see that it is forecast to be a category 2 and downgrade to 1 before landfall.

The pictures make it look like a category 4 sized surge. 20+ feet

What is going on here? Seems like the categorization is messed-up.

The wind speeds are way over dramatized. The storm surge is what takes lives.

The hurricane scale is based on max wind speeds. While the max wind speeds are low, this is a huge, powerful hurricane, that will take some time to dissipate. They are projecting a catagory 1 storm close to dallas, that’s 4 hours away by car. That gives you some idea of the damage this storm can do. The worst is Galveston, due to storm surge. The surge is much higher than a normal catagory, its more like a cat 4. Outside of the storm surge area there will be wind/rain flood damage, which isn’t nothing to sneeze at, but not as likely to be fatal as a massive storm surge. People will die in this storm, I am guessing hundreds.