Hurricane Ike is still making its way through the Gulf of Mexico — and it's still a long way from making landfall.
Experts seems to think it is still likely to make landfall along the Texas coast sometime Saturday morning. As a precautionary measure, some evacuations along the Texas coast were being ordered today.
A high tidal surge is expected in the Galveston area so the evacuation has to be completed by 6 p.m. local time on Thursday. And officials are warning that anyone who stays needs to be aware that there will be times during the storm when no services will be available, when electricity will be out and they won't be able to go out for supplies — "they will absolutely be on their own."
Current projections call for Ike to be a Category 4 storm when it arrives.
And its current path now calls for a rainy weekend in more than half of Texas and Louisiana and in most of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
But Ike's projected path has changed frequently in the last several days so keep an eye on it for awhile.
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