[NautiNurse]

Godspeed to all in Ike's path.

[SouthTexas]

Is it yours or ours? Don’t even want to consider ‘both’.

[kinghorse]

What’s with this westward shift? That’s not what we wanted to see.

[NautiNurse]

Hurricane Watch issued for Florida Keys from Ocean Reef
southward including the Dry Tortugas.

At 11AM, Ike was about 130 miles ENE of Guantanimo Bay, Cuba.
Winds 135, 949 mb. Moving W at 13 mph.

New thread.

On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here-->

[jpsb]

I noticed with Fray, Hanna and Gustav just how good the NHC is getting at predicting the path of big hurricanes. I used to joke that the one thing I know for sure is that 3 days out, where ever the NHC says it’s going is safe from the hurricane. lol, Not any more, I am very impressed with thier skill this season.

[ErnBatavia]

We’ve got friends with a second home in the Houston area...they were planning on driving back to California tomorrow, but we got an email this morning indicating they’re hanging back a couple of days to study Eisenhower’s trajectory.

[Amelia]

Starting to look like a Texas storm.

Note to Texas FReepers: just an observation, not an attempted jinx on you....

[Brilliant]

Looks like it’s pretty much followed the predicted path so far. The brunt of the hurricane will not hit Miami.

[blam]

"Godspeed to all in Ike's path."

Thanks.

I'm relieved to see the forecasted track by-passing my home place.

Head's up Texans.

[Joe Brower]

Florida Freeper

[blam]

Yesterday someone posted a forecast of the track of Hanna that extended to the UK, when I saw that, I wondered if the weather (linked below) is associated with one of our earlier weather systems?

Flood Fears Ease As Rains Lighten (UK)

[AFPhys]

I’ll bet you’re happy to be able to get rid of your advanced engineering of the header!

[FReepaholic]

Here's a neat site:

http://www.stormpulse.com/hurricane-ike-2008

[PERKY2004]

As always, thanks for starting/updating threads like these. Watching and praying here ....

Molly in California

[FlyVet]

I’m glad it’s not headed for N.O. any more, but now there are a ton of wells and refineries in its path.

[dougherty]

Dear God, not again! Well, I will leave my suitcases packed, already have my important papers and things all together and am prepared to leave if it heads this way again. I feel for the people that live on those small islands, don’t know how they live through these things year after year.

[L,TOWM]

Here we are

[Road Warrior ‘04]

It appears as though Ike will miss us in Florida, thank God, but the Keys will get hit and from there who knows. Take care all of you in the path. Looks like a bad one.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

It appears as though Ike will miss us in Florida, thank God, but the Keys will get hit and from there who knows. Take care all of you in the path. Looks like a bad one.

[NonValueAdded]

Checking in with a great big sigh of east coast Florida relief. Prayers for those in Ike's path and may he weaken and swerve at the critical moment.

Here is a handy link for the future thread body. It's http://www.usnpl.com/, the US Newspapers list. Now newspapers aren't very handy when it comes to real time weather but what is handy about the list is that after you select the state, there is a link on the left to get a list of TV stations in that state. You can then click through to a station's Web site and hopefully find their live feed.

[kinghorse]

1900 Historic Galveston Storm Track. Last African storm to rake the length of Cuba.