Fortunately, the kinetic energy associated with Ike has dropped. But it has put a lot of water into motion already and that water motion in turn doesn’t just dissapate in conjuction with the hurricane getting less powerful overall, as they learned with Katrina. I read on Jeff Master’s blog that they had nine feet of surge in NOLA from this. And some low-lying towns in Louisana are flooded.
In nola right now - never seen winds like this in ny.