[pax_et_bonum]

Governor Perry has ordered 7500 National Guard troops to the affected region. Top priority today is search and rescue. TX pre-positioned the largest search and rescue operation in the history of TX for this storm. They are arriving by air, boat and ground.

We evacuated on Thursday from Baytown to Baton Rouge and I met two huge convoys of tree trucks headed west toward Houston.

Friends and family who stayed in the Baytown/Highlands area east of Houston (in the eye path) are reporting LOTS of trees down.

One of my uncles who stayed says that every tree on his street in Highlands is down.

The Highlands/Baytown area lucked out, though, with the change in the eye location just before landfall because their storm surge was much lower than it would have been if the eye had gone in slightly farther south.

[NautiNurse]

Thanks much for your local report. Troublesome to hear so many trees were lost. Too often, that translates to structural damage, and some serious injuries.

[SeaHawkFan]

Any info on the Ward Road area near Kilgore? My girlfriend who evacuated to the Galleria area would like to know?

[Barnacle]

Good luck to you and to all affected by Ike.

I would appreciate any information on conditions in the neighborhood on the west end of Clear Lake just south of the Johnson Space Center.