Evacuate or Die: Strict warning as Hurricane Ike moves to Texas coast, Houston

National Weather service has issued a warning to the people living in some part of Texas coast to evacuate as early as possible.

“All neighborhoods and possibly entire coastal communities.Will be inundated during the period of peak storm tide. Persons Not heeding evacuation orders in single family one or two story Homes will face certain death. Many residences of average Construction directly on the coast will be destroyed. Widespread
And devastating personal property damage is likely elsewhere.

Vehicles left behind will likely be swept away. Numerous roads Will be swamped…some may be washed away by the water. Entire Flood prone coastal communities will be cutoff. Water levels may Exceed 9 feet for more than a mile inland. Coastal residents in Multi-story facilities risk being cutoff. Conditions will be Worsened by battering waves. Such waves will exacerbate property Damage with massive destruction of homes including those of Block construction. Damage from beach erosion could take years to Repair.”

Before this, as the strengthened Hurricane Ike heads for the city of Galveston, Residents of the Houston-Galveston area and four northern counties on the Texas Gulf Coast have been ordered to evacuate by the governor Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas. “Latest estimates show that Ike will begin moving ashore within the next 48 hours, packing winds in excess of 120 miles per hour and a storm surge that could reach 14 feet or more,” Texas Governor Rick Perry said at a news conference in Austin today.”As we speak, Ike is a Category 2 storm, but could very well intensify to a Cat 4,” Governor Perry said. “That would make Hurricane Ike the strongest storm to come ashore in Texas in the past three years, but we are ready.

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