Houston, you have a problem:
Hurricane Ike is threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refineries and docks of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, their worst pounding in a generation.
[The Associated Press]
But, where my compatriots on the Turks and Caicos Island of Grand Turk were completely at Ike’s mercy, Houstonians have been given every opportunity to run for their lives inland to safety.
Therefore, let us pray that all whose homes are in Ike’s path heeded the government’s call to evacuate; and that those who decided to hunker down survive its 110-mph winds and 20-foot storm surges, which are expected to flood the entire coastal city of Galveston.
Americans are blessed with the technology, escape routes to inland shelters and other emergency management resources to gauge and withstand hurricanes with virtually no loss of life. Nevertheless, how well local authorities enforce evacuation orders and how many daring fools ignore them (and go sight seeing in the eye of the storm) shall determine [Ike’s] human casualties.
[Run for your lives, Katrina’s coming, Katrina’s coming, The iPINIONS Journal, August 29, 2005]
My prayers are with you Houston….
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