I am in Kentucky visiting my wife's mother and working at home here. Watching Ike from afar is kind of surreal. It is just amazing the kind of information that is online now, but often, you want just a little more.
Evacuation is a hard thing to stomach, I guess. When everybody evacuated for Rita, people were stranded for dozens of hours on freeways in the heat with no food or gas, and nobody wanted to go through that again. The officials this time tried to keep people out of life-threatening danger off the road, but it looks like a lot of other people stayed. I can understand why, but I would have gone. You just can't take the chance.
It's a melancholy night watching this unfold. I think that this is going to turn out very badly for Galveston and the communities surround Galveston Bay.
