UPDATE:
Ike is now the size of Texas and headed straight for Galveston. This is not good.
UPDATE II:
This is not just ‘not good’: this is truly awful. “Galveston Sheriff Leaves 1,000 Inmates AND Deputies To Die To Ike” Galveston flood walls are reportedly around 5 metres high, with the storm surge predicted to carry 7 1/2 metre swells. Pity anyone in there.