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Originally Posted by TalnSG

Hopefully both Eva and Yuujiro will end up staying on the north and/or west side of Ike. I just keep thinking how bad Kirby street floods if it even looks like rain.

I don't know why Ike looks worse to me than Camille ('69) when I lived in Biloxi. Its speed is slower and the storm surge is no worse (so far), but my gut says this one is worse. Let's just hope its my age and experience making me more wary of a hurricane3's potential.

Then if a tornado hits the Fort Worth Stockyards tomorrow night, it was nice knowing ya'll. Maybe I will go out riding the wind instead of a bull.
Only half kidding - there's a good chance of us having tornado force winds even if no funnel clouds form around Dallas/Ft. Worth.

You're gut may not be wrong. The Integrated Kinetic Energy (IKE) rating for Ike is higher than the one for Camile. Ike has a IKE rating of 5.2. (Yeah, tell me thats not confusing! ) Camile had a rating of 5.0 and Katrina a 5.1. Basically this means that Ike, while not having as an intense center, is moving more air and water than Camile or Katrina did.

BTW: I'm pretty close to the Fort Worth Stock Yards myself!