[proudofthesouth]

“the media likes to cover places with operational restaurants and hotel rooms, rather than places where they’ll have to live in primitive conditions”

That story reminds me of Walter Cronkite who never gave Huntsville, Alabama (my hometown) the coverage and recognition it deserved during the early space race years.

I’ve been told by several people with connections to NASA that Walter HATED Huntsville cause at that time it was nothing but a stuck out in the woods hick country town and there was nothing here to do.

[AFPhys]

As of right now, there are three areas with Tornado WARNINGs (It means there is one, not just “conditions favorable”) approximately 300 miles AHEAD of Ike in Arkansas, and ONE Tornado Warning trailing it in Texas (that is unusual).

I'm not going to monitor all of these and post them here. I suggest for the time being, if Ike is within 300miles or so of you that you hit this link occasionally to check your local area:

NWS Tornado Warnings