Ike Makes Galveston Uninhabitable

This is very sad. I only hope these people get their lives back in order soon.

Texas Recovers after Hurricane Ike

Well, Dubya has declared Texas a disaster area, Houston has set a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, and there’s been massive power outages and flooding, but it looks Ike didn’t turn out to be catastrophic by any stretch.  The people in Texas need our help, but they seem to have made it through alive.
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Why Being a Weather Reporter Might Not be a Good Idea

Watch as Hurricane Ike blows this guy all over the place:

Speaking of Ike, there’s a silver lining in all of this: Economic damage from Hurricane Ike may be less than feared

Ike Heads For Texas

Brave Few Plan to Ride Out Ike
By CLAYTON SANDELL
As Hurricane Ike makes its way to the Texas Gulf Coast, the National Weather Service issued a blunt warning to residents of Galveston. “Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family, one- or two-story homes, will face certain death.”
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Some Hurricane Logic from Ron Paul

While I think Ron Paul’s foreign policy is pretty much suicide, I could probably get behind a decent amount of his domestic policies. In this case, I think he may be right; if you’re going to choose to live somewhere that’s prone to natural disasters, you should probably have a plan in place to [...]