"Never argue with the weather." --Robert Heinlein
Well... this is about as bad as it can get.
Hurricane Ike on Infrared Satellite
Look at the size of that thing!
Hurricane Ike's projected path
The star marks El Lago, which means "the lake" in Spanish and may soon become apropos!
Ike is moving slowly and veering northward so that now his projected path hits us almost dead on. The "almost" part is actually worse because the northwest quadrant of a hurricane is the worst.
They are predicting that the storm surge could slosh a goodly portion of the Gulf of Mexico right onto us here in El Lago. The Johnson Space Center and everything around it is closed. We are under an emergency evacuation order, so I guess it's time to seriously plan to give ol' Ike the right of way.