On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:08:56 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Sep 13, 8:01*pm, dxAce wrote:
Ike is now a tropical storm with winds near 60 mph.

http://www.hwn.org/atlantic/nhcww4.html

http://www.hwn.org/data/TCPAT4.html

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Drake R7, R8, R8A and R8B
70' and 200' wires

And as always, don't do business with the Huntington Investment Company.

Thanks for those updates Ace - it has been very interesting following
Ike.
Still a very vicious storm - I have a lot of sympathy for those in
it's path, but at least the vast resources of the mighty U.S. of A.
are available to them.

JP
This morning I received a call from a cousin who is an RN in Houston.
They have all available staff at the hospital for a week - full time
living there. As of her call they had only a few folks admitted, the
emergency crews were just mobilizing and they expect admissions to
increase. Several of the hospitals are on generator power, some are
experiencing heavy water/weather leakage and the water supplies are
not safe at this point (those with water are being told to boil it
prior to use). Their concern is having sufficient clean water to
handle a heavy surgical load and cleaning injuries. Though not a
rosy report (would be great if all facilities had power and good water
& no weather leaks) they have already arranged for the damaged
hospitals to be the triage and low care level facilities with those in
better shape handling surgery and heavy trauma cases.