Hurricane Ike (2008)

UPDATE: Hurricane Ike is now a Category 2 storm with top sustained winds of 100 mph. The storm continues to gather strength in the Gulf of Mexico, headed for a weekend landfall in Texas. Watch Ike grow in this satellite......

Hurricane Ike is still spinning with top sustained winds of 'only' 100 mph - Cat. 2. But it is a sprawling storm, with hurricane winds more than 100 miles from its center. And those winds are pushing a storm surge......

Okay, I've been grumping privately about this for a couple of weeks - ever since the CNN morning achors began referring to Hurricane Gustav as a 'monster' storm as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico and threatened New Orleans.This morning,......

by Frank James The Feds have issued a press release outlining the preparations they've made for Hurricane Ike. The release has some useful information. For instance, there are more than 1,000 high-water vehicles at the ready to conduct search-and-rescue.....

Residents of Galveston who stay behind to 'ride it out' in one- or two-story structures as Hurricane Ike approaches in the next 24 hours were warned by the National Weather Service tonight they will face 'certain death' as a storm......

Hurricane Ike is still hours from landfall and already he has spread havoc up and down the Texas coastline. Coastal communities, including Surfside Beach are already flooded. At least one fire has broken out amid flooded beachside homes on Galveston......

The waters of the Gulf of Mexico are already rising ahead of Hurricane Ike as the giant storm closes on the northern coast of Texas and western Louisiana. Sea levels are already 5 feet above predicted tides, and forecasters are......

Weather disturbances traveling along the stalled frontal boundary that's draped across the Northeast (the dark blue swath on the national radar map above) will mean showers and thunderstorms as the day goes by today. Sunday looks partly sunny, forecasters...

So what happened to the Houston Texans against the Pittsburgh Steelers? And can the Ravens -- who happen to be 4 1/2-point underdogs -- lose this game that has been moved to Monday night because of the threat from Hurricane......

Bill Murphy, right, stands with his wife, Barbara, as two others who were stranded with them wait to be rescued from flood waters by a Coast Guard helicopter in High Island, Texas Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 (AP Photo/The Dallas......

As Hurricane Ike sets its eyes on Houston, the Gulf oil industry is shutting down for the second time in a month as it braces for the storm. The hurricane has spurred some Houston-area gas stations to tack a surplus......

With a big, intense high pressure system to our south and east, pumping hot air up from the South, forecasters out at Sterling are looking for highs around 95 degrees in Baltimore this afternoon. If they're right, that could set......