After Pain of Ike

From Texas to Ohio Hurricane Ike caused a lot of devastation on land and shore lines. Even though Ike has been over for nearly a week, people have still been struggling with its affects. Hard to believe though that people are beginning to thrive again in the places that we would like to call 'unknown' especially after an event like this... With people returning to their homes after being evacuated, only thing remotely familiar are the belongings floating in the sludge left over from the hurricane. One place in particular, is a restaurant in Galveston, Texas that the owners still plan to rebuild even though the damage is way worse than what they expected. Paula Munoz had this to say about his Diner: "We spent 10 years paying off this place," she told KHOU. "We'll rebuild, and we'll do it here. Where else would we go? This is our life."

With some people leaving everything behind religious people left the fate of everything of theirs to the one they believed in. One lady being interviewed by CNN was said to rush inside her "standing" home and grab a statue of the Lord and thank him greatly for not letting it take her everything. To my surprise however, some takers decided to wade it out and actually able to make it through the strong hurricane Ike. They braved it in their attic trying to keep all of their importance items close so that they didn't get taken away with the ripping winds like most of the house did.

If you ever get a chance to visit CNN's website, they really do a good job of covering all the things that this storm caused in this country. With over a dozen first person experiences of this hurricane you can get a pretty detailed story of what Ike actually did as it rampage on land continued. I have been reading a lot of stories on this subject so there are a good amount of places to go with hurricane season in the U.S.

Even though people thought they could wade it out like Gustav, this was, as predicted, going to be a major Hurricane like Katrina was many years go. Speaking of Major hurricanes, one thing that shocked me to find out while watching the news the other morning, I overheard that this years Hurricane season is going to break the new record for this country since we have had over the amount of major hurricanes and also that the weather in the Gulf is fluctuating so much that storms will be of greater abundance. So I hope that people with be smart about this whole conception and will evacuate away from the hurricane paths whenever they come around where they live. Something also that intrigues my thought on this whole subject is how far inland one of these things can get before decreasing in power.

With technology nowadays being able to predict where the storms can go, maybe this will eventually be going to predicting specific weather patterns to start evacuating places before the eye is even formed on one of these devastating weather events.