Comments on: Houston Told To "Hunker Down" For Big Ike

Facing Massive Category 3 Hurricane, City Officials Seek To Avoid Mass Evacuation Crush

[barbaraf4]

I don''t understand why some people are being told to stay and "hunker down". That sounds like careless disregard for safety to me. There is no way to know what this monster will do. Everyone needs to get out right now.

[ubrew12]

Frankly, Galveston should be forced at gunpoint to abandon the city. Our worst natural disaster occurred there in 1900, at the hands of another hurricane, which killed 9000 to 12000.

If it hits, anyone in the city will be killed.

[erasmus81]

Posted by LloydBest1 at 08:36 PM : Sep 11, 2008

You always do a spectacular job of keeping us updated!

[barbaraf4]

"I just don''t think I am going to do anything yet since the exact track of this storm could change at any time. At this point and time it still shows that this thing will come straight through my county and may still be a tropical storm when it gets here." Posted by fabrat1
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It never hurts to have a survival plan. If you don''t use it this time you will have it next time.

[emelder]

Good luck, Texas ... batten down the hatches ... our prayers are with y''all.

[blackyowe]

My Brother is right down in Spring, TX near Houston. I am a nervous wreck tonight!

[yankeerebel7]

With the unprecedented amount of good will Texas has shown Louisiana in the years following Katrina....TX deserves nothing but the best.

[txgrouch2006]

I have always wondered what a MOAB exploded in the eye of a hurricane would do.....or the opposite.....if a line of them was exploded horizontally throughout the whole storm....
Posted by cwazywabt at 09:22 PM : Sep 11, 2008

Probably it would make the storm wobble kinda funny like for about 5 minutes. Then it would be back to the same as if nothing happened.

It''s pure fantasy to imagine that ANY human activity could nullify a large-scale weather system that is distributed over MILLIONS OF SQUARE MILES.

[lloydbest1]

"...This at an estimated 16 - 18 hours away from landfall just a few miles down the coast...." Posted by LloydBest1 at 08:36 PM : Sep 11, 2008

Hey, I messed up! Landfall is NOT 16 - 18 hours. The weather wonks think sometime between 10 PM Friday and 2 AM Saturday morning. That''s 28 - 32 hours...Sorry.

[iphyt4u]

Texans know this hurricane is the work of Muslim extremist.