Pictures of Hurricane Ike
It hit about a 10-12 hour drive south of where I live. Unlike New Orleans, our state is always prepared for hurricanes and tornados so the cities were evacuated before the hurricane hit. Well, mostly evacuated: some people refused to leave which prompted the National Weather Service to put up a message on it's website to the effect of 'If you are still in Galveston, you face certain death'.

www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 17 Sep 2008, 4:04, 4 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

That
is extraordinary
( Kroney, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 7:50, Reply)

very cool pictures
but . . . cough cough


/links?
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 8:48, Reply)

Stunning pics
I have to admit that I read that as 'hurricanes and tomatoes'.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 8:51, Reply)

I'm glad
that you came through it intact, FWB. It was a hell of a storm, and it ran across my parents' place in NY the other night and took out electricity in Utica and Rome. Mom said that at 3 am the wind was enough to awaken her and scared the hell out of her. My niece left a window open and the wind cleared off her dresser and took things down from the walls.

And over here we got absolutely nothing from it.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 17 Sep 2008, 12:46, Reply)