Ike,Yikes!

My daughter sent me to www.wunderground.com where I viewed various maps of the current hurricane's progress. Ike looks as though it is a storm to be reckoned with. We kid about emptying the grocery store of eggs, milk, and bread when there is a prediction of a few inches of snow in St. Louis. We are never stranded for more than a day, so it seems kind of silly. If I were in Houston, however, I'd be scrounging for plywood and packing the van. We were there for six years, in Pearland, which is a suburb south of Houston. Never did we experience a hurricane and only once I remember our street flooding after some tropical storm. Sometimes we had to reroute ourselves to get to work or school due to flooding, but our house was never in danger. Since we moved away, my son had to once abandon a car because of flooding. I think that too was the aftermath of a tropical storm. But Ike looks serious and headed for Victoria. That is close enough to Houston to dump buckets of rain on the whole metropolitan area. I would think my son, who is in Cypress nortwest of the city, will experience torrential rains and pretty impressive rains even the 70 or so miles he is on shore. I guess it all depends on how fast the storm is moving. The slower it progresses, the more water it will get to pull in from the Gulf.