GOOD LUCK TEXAS!

As hurricane Ike lumbers toward the Texas coast I shudder to think how devastating the result of its arrival likely will be. With experts predicting a storm surge of water levels exceeding 20 to 25 feet along that shoreline I took a close-up peek at Google Earth and noted the land elevations around Galveston and Houston as I rolled my mouse over the area geography.

I hope those folks are paying very close attention to evacuation orders.