Surge maps are on the NWS’s Ike page, down below the forecast track:
http://www.noaawatch.gov/2008/ike.php
The surge maps up there now are interesting. Galveston Island gets between 10 (west end) and 15 (east end) feet. 17-19 feet up the bay. The worst of it is actually showing EAST of Port Arthur, up to 29.4 feet. Cameron Parish, LA, 15 feet. Calcasieu Parish, LA, 14 feet (and they’re inland of Cameron). New Orleans, 7 feet. Vermillion, 10 feet.
This thing is a bloody monster. Has there ever been a hurricane that caused this much coastal surge over this wide an area?
}:-)4
Yesterday at noon, Texarkana officials were told to expect 500 evacuees from Port Arthur who would need shelters. 1100 showed up between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.