Hurricane Ike- Category 3 & Growing!
The 11pm Wednesday night NHC update is in. Ike keeps inching East. First it was a Corpus Christi landing, then Port Lavaca, Matagorda Bay, and now Freeport. Can we move a bt faster east please. No offense to all areas east of Galveston, but I’d prefer the West side of all hurricanes. It’s just a silly preference I have- IF I have to experience a hurricane at all.
Ike is still a category 2 though most projections are for a full-fledged CAT 3 by thursday afternoon. Some even see a CAT 4 by Friday. May they be wildly wrong. Ike’s winds have not substantially increased as of thge 11pm Wednesday report. The storm’s sustained winds remain near 100 mph. But forecasters anticipate strengthening as Ike’s central pressure has been steadily falling since the last report
The official forecast calls for a 125-mph hurricane at landfall, a strong category 3 system. Not good.
Aransas County, on the eastern coast of Texas, has ordered a mandatory evacuation of all nonessential government employees, becoming the latest county in the state to urge residents to flee. In Galveston, city officials ordered mandatory evacuations for part of the island town beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday. The rest of the town will be under a voluntary evacuation order. Only residents will be required to evacuate on the western end of the island.
Still fresh, for most Texans, are the horrors of Hurricane Rita in 2005, when a massive evacuation of 3 million people gridlocked roads, leaving motorists stranded for up to 30 hours without food, water or gas. Rita inflicted far less damage than feared and quickly weakened. So, we who live near the Gulf have enough experience and practice to know what to do.
Now, we wait to se what I will do.
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