Hurricane Ike - be very afraid... maybe

So we have another hurricane on the way... Here's Ike wending his way across the gulf:

Now we're only just in the dreaded cone of death and destruction or whatever they call that thing (you can see Galveston bay again just inside the North-East edge of the cone) but when we went to sleep last night we were 100 miles away from trouble... so Ike could be coming closer.

Frankly I am bored of hurricane season already - I think I preferred living in earthquake country where you never knew what was coming. Here we get a week of "oh Hurricane X is coming. It's a big one. Prepare the hurricane kit. Ooooh, look at the cone of death and destruction, look how bad it's going to be. START PRAYING. KEEP PRAYING. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THAT THING.... Phew! It wasn't as big as we thought and it missed anyway. And now to our intrepid reporter who is looking like an idiot standing in a puddle in the Walmart parking lot in his storm gear trying to make it look worse than it is to justify the hysteria we whipped up"

Then we'll get a week of normalcy before the next one fires up the cycle all over again.

So let's see what Ike brings us...