Ike is a scary storm

According to Dr. Jeff Masters, Ike is more powerful than Katrina.The way that it is strengthening, by increasing its windows further out from the center rather than wrapping tightly around the eye, is producing a massive storm surge on the dangerous northeast quadrant.

Ike will probably inundate a 180-mile stretch of Texas coast from Port O'Connor to just north of Galveston with a 10-15 foot storm surge. This will occur even if Ike is a Category 1 storm at landfall. The latest experimental storm surge forecast From NOAA's SLOSH model (Figure 1) shows a 10% chance that Ike's storm surge will exceed 15-21 feet at Galveston. The Galveston sea wall is 17 feet high, so it may get overtopped.

Reminds me of Tom Rush - Galveston Flood

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