And for VERY good reason...
Ike's center has gone over eastern Cuba overnight (see- click on images) but now is nearing the southern coast of eastern Cuba- with all appearances that the eye will soon re-emerge over water.
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This is not good news for the U.S. Gulf coast- particularly Louisiana and the adjacent on & off-shore oil facilities.
Present Category-2 Ike is forecast by both major hurricane weather models to make a landfall as a Category 2 or 3 storm later this week somewhere in the vicinity of Vermillion Bay near Lafayette.
Like Gustav- Ike threatens the Gulf oil fields (more off-shore drilling in hurricane-infested waters?) and New Orleans- who once again would be on the most-intense eastern side of the hurricane.
This shall be very interesting in light of the hardships on people posed by evacuations from Gustav.
Will those same residents take Ike as seriously as Gustav- which was over-hyped by Louisiana political officials? Stay tuned.
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Ye old "Funktop IR" was showin' me that IKE is pretty dang disorganized right now: (0215 Central Daylight...).
My buddy Sherman (Hong) hinges a City Band gig on whether or nawt IKE visits sometime 'tween now and Sunday. We shall see.
I've got bottled water, Tortilla chips, salsa, soup-at-hand, and will boil me up a few eggs (the post with regard to Passports was friggin' HILARIOUS, btw...!)...
We all are watchin' ol' Ike.
Perhaps he DO take that hIKE right into ye old UNPOPULATED area of Texas. (My folks were there after we cleaned up Katrina's junk, aiding Rita's victims with insurance claims). They are not going back into that---gave it up; but Baytown/Beaumont took a beating from Rita. I'm hoping nobody else is killed by Ike, and that he completely MISSES the production rig my Aunt's beau works from. Randall's kinda cool. I ain't want nothin' happening to that cat, or his job.
We will see.
Send up a few prayers and vibes to TGS for me and mine, and IF Ike dumps on us, I'll catcha on the B-side....
I will keep an Eagle-Eye or four peeled--this bad boy is currently having an identity crisis. He don't know how strong he wanna be.
Right now, he's a WIMP; lost a lotta muscle, he did.
Let's see if he gets a good head o' steam and gains some weight again. I HOPE to God not.
Let's hope he dies, Capt...the faster, the better.
Tea
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