At the time of this writing, it has overflowed Lake Pontchartrain, Pascagoula's getting very high waves (I care about Pascagoula - a dear co-worker of mine grew up there and has family there), guild mates of mine are likely to get hit in Houston and Louisiana, and so on.
Gas price gouging has already started. Despicable, and quite illegal, but calamities do tend to bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
As for Galveston, why the heck 40% of the population has stayed after the "certain death" mandatory evacuation is beyond me. I'm not talking about the folks who cannot leave - that's not 40% of the population there. I'm talking about the people who can, and just aren't going. These kids, for example, are just foolish, in my opinion. A little bit of plywood isn't going to keep this out.
Ike is around 100 miles from landfall, and already it looks like this.
Here's an in-progress blog.
If you're reading this and you have family there, I hope that they are safe.
