Apparently the fastest pressure drops along the coast now are in Freeport and Angleton, southwest of Galveston. That’s a sign that Ike may well wobble a bit west and hit the coast down from Galveston instead of head-on into the island as currently estimated. If that’s the case, then Galveston and Houston get the “dirty” northeast side of the storm, which is packing hurricane winds out 110+ miles. It also means Galveston and Galveston Bay get even more surge. If that happens, it’s a worst-case scenario.
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Press conference on KHOU now. The Democrat mayor of Galveston just spoke, talking about how she’s ordered a curfew and there’s a shelter “of last resort” for citizens. The man who followed her said the city’s staff will close everything down, including locking the shelter doors, at 9:00 p.m.