This is intense language about Ike, it will be interesting to see if it pans out to be this huge and damaging, and what the political fallout might be.

"Officials said the initial flooding was only a preview of worse things to come, and one hurricane expert, Dr. Jeff Masters, warned that the storm “stands poised to become one of the most damaging hurricanes of all time” because of its vast size."


This is wild:

The winds at the center of the hurricane were on the low end for such a storm — about 105 miles per hour — but the storm measured more than 500 miles across and was causing 50-foot waves as it swept over shallow Gulf waters."


You might not be thinking of the annihilation of Galveston back in 1900, but that story was pretty incredible. I read the Courier-Journal and several other papers throughout that storm during my Watterson research and the shocked media coverage was really interesting since the storm essentially came out of nowhere by current standards.

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