Waiting For Ike

It's Saturday morning and Hurricane Ike has made landfall. It hit land at 2:10 am at Galveston, TX with sustained winds of 110 mph. We weren't sure what to expect here in Dallas, but it looks like we will not get severe weather from Ike. The wind started blowing around 8:30 am, and the rain started soon afterwards. The weather report said we will have wind up to 35 mph along with rain. I'm so thankful that it will not be worse.

I heard that this storm is almost the size of the state of Texas. Ike stretches for over 500 miles. I read somewhere that the eye was 60 miles wide. Even though Ike is only Category 2 hurricane, because of it's massive size it has the potential to do as much or more damage than a Category 4 hurricane.

We are praying for the people that have been hit hard by this massive storm.