Talk about damage over a wide area ... it goes ashore in Houston and I've heard many reports of damage in Ohio!
I was watching the weather radar Friday and the eye went exactly over Galveston Bay (and was the same size as the bay). Yet the heaviest band of rain was not the eye-wall but rather a band far to the east in Louisiana. Between Ike and Gustov they're worse off than Houston. But, they can't lose much...
PS. Much is made of the damage in Galveston. But while Galveston is only a few feet about sea level, Boliver Peninsula opposite it is only a few inches up. If they're going to find a bunch of bodies of hold-outs, it will be on Bolivar Peninsula.
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