Happier thought, a bit more interesting anyway, (since we've no pictures at all on this page, I'm going to put a 150kB pic): Look at this picture that jeffers put me on to hours ago, and glock rocks has been so good as to capture - it shows Ike well inland and still a very pretty, symmetric tropical storm. It is dominating weather in an area much larger than the whole of the United States right now. This is a water vapor channel picture, and was taken about two hours ago.
jeffers said earlier about this:
Ike is pulling moisture from a thousand miles out in the Pacific, and a thousand miles out in the Atlantic.
The core is already as wet as it gets, with more on the way, and the backside is puling down polar air from Canada.
Give this a day to organize, and the cold front could put down a LOT of tornadoes. Everyone south of the center of circulation and out front of the developing cold front is potentially at risk from severe weather.
Midwest and Mississippi Valley Sunday, east coast Monday.