Hopes

Hurricane Ike made landfall at 2:10 CST a little southwest of Houston and is tracking northwest with 110 mph winds.

I hope my folks are okay. My grandparents, who stayed in Galveston for Alicia, said it was one of the worst nights of their lives and that the wouldn't want to withstand a hurricane again. I imagine my folks are having a rough night right now too.

The whole metro area of Houston is having a rough night, something like 5 million people, many of them survivors of Katrina who relocated from New Orleans to Texas. Having been through a storm, a tiny one in comparison (about 45 mph less), and short too (no more than an hour or so of the awful stuff), but with a tree that fell on us, I can't imagine staying through a hurricane.

I'm watching tv and reading the papers but can't get a good idea of what has happened. Darkness really hampers knowledge, both philosophically and practically. I'll write again later, but I hope I don't have to post the eulogy to Galveston that I've been working on in my head.