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Evacuations in TX ahead of Hurricane Ike.
Hope all the Texas residents have taken precautions to get out of the way...hope my old hometown (Baytown) makes it through alright :(

According to the forecast map, Ike's also gonna get Arkansas...I had plenty of fun when Gustav visited, it was rainy and chilly for two-three frakking days while I had to hike across campus to get to my classes, and it really hasn't cleared up since. :gonk:

..Is Brian in Texas? (Bonus points for the refrence)

Isn't it with a "y" though? :P

Here at A & M we got classes cancelled tomorrow. I for one am glad of that.

What's with a y?

To get this thread back on a more proper track....

This year, the Gulf doesn't seem to be the prime Hurricane charging zone that it has been in prior years. Hurrican Ike was originally forcast to be very strong, but now appears to be forcast making landfall as a Category 2 hurricane, so damage should be fairly light. It heading for Galveston is pretty bad, though, as Galveston has a bad history with hurricanes.

Sorry for going off track there...

This is from an article on CNN.com:

Plenty of Saturday football games are getting rescheduled because of this... even up here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area (where I live). Make no mistake - Ike will be stronger than a Category 2 when it makes landfall. It jumped back up to Category 2 far too fast (watch the solidifying eye after it hops off of Cuba), and the Gulf is primed to fuel it up even more before it reaches the U.S. coast.

I've watched hurricanes like this before, and there's some regular patterns that happen with the big ones. (I lived along the Gulf Coast at one point in time, along with my aunt, who now lives with me because she no longer lives here.)

@ Wigmund - Bryan is the adjacent city to College Station, home to Texas A&M.

@ Tera - You're an Aggie? :D I was bound to find another one on these forums one day...

Okay, projections now slightly favor a Category 3 at landfall... but only by a matter of a few mph windspeed.

And according to The Weather Channel, Ike covers 40% of the Gulf...and it's kicking up 10+ foot waves.

I'm to the east of Ike in semi-northwestern Louisiana. We're getting TS force gusts at the moment, but power's still around.

By comparison, Gustav had winds that high when it passed directly over us.