Texas: Hurricane Ike Predicted To Reach Category 4
Hurricane Ike is expected to reach Texas early Saturday morning at a category 4 strength, experts have just announced. Mandatory evacuations are now being ordered all along the Texas Gulf Coast in order to reduce the number of potential casualties. Currently Ike is a Category 2 hurricane.
Roughly 15,000 people are being asked to leave Brazoria County in Texas though many are deciding to stay and wait out the storm. For more on mandatory evacuations in the area, please visit http://www.click2houston.com/news/4995385/detail.html
“One of the things that the public has to understand if they decide to stay, there will be a period of time during this storm when they will absolutely be on their own,” Brazoria County Sheriff Charles Wagner said to the press today.
President Bush has already declared an emergency in Texas so that preparation funds could begin to enter the state. The area around Galveston City and Corpus Christi are being told that flooding is likely under the current storm predictions.
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December 16th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Ike was blamed for at least 195 deaths. Of these, 74 were in Haiti, which was already trying to recover from the impact of three storms earlier that year: Fay, Gustav, and Hanna. In the United States, 112 people were killed, and 23 are still missing
June 15th, 2011 at 5:13 am
Ike was blamed for at least 195 deaths. Of these, 74 were in Haiti, which was already trying to recover from the impact of three storms earlier that year: Fay, Gustav, and Hanna. In the United States, 112 people were killed, and 23 are still missing