Tag Hurricane Ike

From comments on The Oil Drum What is really interesting to me is that the Neches River currently has a flow of -32000 cubic feet a second – that is, the water is now flowing the wrong direction in that…

“This is a Category 5 hurricane,” said Jeff Masters, co-founder of meteorological Web site The Weather Underground. “I don’t care what the Category 2 rating says.”

“A volunteer team of meteorologists and journalists are live tweeting throughout the Hurricane. Not a bot.” Via Digg. You can also “track #Ike” on Twitter to get tweets from whoever is using that tag. Both will have near-instantaneous news,…

FEMA says it could be “catastrophic, let me repeat that, catastrophic.” The Houston Chronicle has live video, breaking coverage, and photos. Areas of Galveston are already underwater. Let’s hope this is not another “Isaac’s Storm“, which devastated Galveston in 1900.

An eyewitness report from a Canadian living in Cuba. There’s not one province that has gotten off easy. More destruction, less destruction — but all fourteen provinces and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud have suffered from Hurricane…