Link to photos of Hurricane Ike

Someone emailed me this link. I thought you might be interested. Thankfully the storm moved further to the right and we received only strong winds and heavy rains. We were on the "clean side". Our area got mostly power outages and some roof and fence damage. Of course, gas is scare. We are west of Houston and 70 miles inland.

I'm not sure those of you who are not in this part of the country can understand the impact. The local news has been running 24/7 with coverage. Currently, the problems are the bottle-necking on I-45 of people trying to get back to the coast to check on their property. The influx of people are inhibiting the power trucks and emergency vehicles from getting in. There are still people on Galveston Island who rode out the storm and refuse to leave or have no means of leaving because their cars were flooded.


http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/200...l_life_of.html