Edmundo has some video taken from his apartment. Still looks fairly tame, huh?
Ike updates: evacuation traffic and Edmundo tweeting Ike on S&R channel
Post Updated at 4:35 PM MDT. Click on “Full Story” to read the update. First, Ann Ivins reports that “traffic is starting to pick up along Interstate 10 coming in from Houston. […]
25% of US oil refining in Ike's path
This map shows the 6 meter (20 foot) flood zone from sea level rise. It’s likely the worst-case for the storm surge. Feel free to scroll around, especially up to Port Arthur […]
Quotabull
With the bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the Reagan revolution has at last realized the robber barons’ dream: privatize the profits and socialize the debt. Nicely done, fellas. — a […]
Ike: Galveston is in deep trouble
A couple disparate pieces of information have come together in a way that’s potentially a little scary. Earlier, Ann Ivins noted that: Even with the terrible planning and deadly highway gridlock, San […]
Ike: More from Edmundo Rocha in Houston
As Edmundo Rocha noted earlier today, things are looking pretty dire for those in Ike’s path. For those interested in what it looks like on the ground, he’s liveblogging as best he […]
Daily Brushback: So you say you want war with Russia? Some follow-up questions for Palin
by JS O’Brien Sarah Palin told ABC’s Charles Gibson yesterday that she favors admitting Georgia and the Ukraine, both on Russia’s borders, to NATO. When Gibson asked her if she would go […]
Ike bears down on Houston: "Whatever reports you're hearing are lies"

Editor’s Note: The S&R team just received the following e-mail from our friend and colleague Edmundo Rocha, who lives in Houston. The city has had time to prepare, but it sounds as […]