Galveston Island, Texas is getting the worst of Hurricane Ike right now. Residents were warned by the National Weather Service that they may face “certain death” if not evacuated from the low lying areas. Some 4.5 million customers are without power already as Ike pushes through Galveston and into the Houston Area. I was just watching some news clips and its very windy and very violent blowings wind with debris flying all over the place. Many TV stations here in South Texas are not working now and have colored bars on them as they are probably based in the Houston Area and are out of service. I guess we will not know until daybreak how bad the storm is.

Houston is the nations 4th largest city, and a wall of water could surge that would be almost 20 feet tall. Galveston a coastal community with an 18 foot storm wall was plowed over by Ike the worst storm to hit Texas in nearly 50 years. In the year 1900 a storm came through Galveston that killed 8000 residents when Hurricane warnings were non existent. This time plenty of time was given to flee but as many as 40,000 residents decided to stay and ride out the storm.

Rescue missions have already began taking place as helicopters are bailing people out one at a time as people changed their minds too late and were already hit with the menacing waters. No deaths have been reported yet but in situations like this it seems that there will be some tragedy and we hope that its very limited as this hurricane is only a few hours from our home. It really makes you think that this kind of thing can happen to your family.

See more information here at yahoo news. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people that are having their lives disrupted by this Hurricane Ike, we had a smaller hurricane dolly come near our home last month and it was enough of a pain just putting up with no power and no running water. We got lucky this time that we did not get hit like Galveston/Houston.

Good luck to everyone reading this and keep safe.