It's Saturday, 10am, and Ike has made landfall over Galveston and rolled into the Houston area. Hurricanes seem to set a tone unlike other storms. It's a tone of foreboding, waiting, wondering, and slowly being able to see it develop across the skies to the south. Unlike fast moving thunderstorms and squall lines, these hurricanes are tracked for days as they cross the Gulf, growing in size across the warm waters. In Northern Louisiana, Ike is expected to bring another shot of rain and wind over the next 36 hours, however, the real damage lies in the wake of its various landfalls. Damage and destruction along the Texas coast should be well covered and is expected to be quite bad due to a twenty-foot high swell that came ashore last night.
The ferocity of these storms, however, has not only been spent on the shores of the United States. Ike, Gustav, Hanna, and Fay have left a lasting impact on neighbors to the south that aren't as well covered.
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Hurricane season continues.
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