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Some real good info on Hurricane Ike and his expected effects on Houston:

National Weather Service official forecast - This is for my zipcode, 77096, and is currently giving the expected max wind predictions. At the moment 55-75mph with 90mph gusts. Which is below the level expected to damage most homes.

National Hurricane Center The official forecast for Ike's track and additional information. It's coming right for Houston which is actually slightly better than yesterday's track of 60 miles west of here since the eastern half of the storm is nastier.

Houston Chronicle's Science Blog The best part of our local paper is Eric Berger's science blog. For three years running he's had the best information about tropical systems heading into the gulf, and what they mean to the Houston area. He's a little strung out right now from lack of sleep but still putting out great stuff. Keep in mind that I live well outside the storm surge zone so discussion about it's affects don't apply to me.

Stormpulse.com - Another good tracking site that let's you look at the computer models that go into the forecast track. HWRF and GFDL are the NHC's two homegrown models and get the most weight in the official track.

Houston Hide From the Wind A great zip code map of predicted wind speeds in the Houston area. For my fans click on the 77096. The values listed here are a bit higher than the NWS forecast numbers and don't list the gusts but it's still a good resource.

If you have a twitter account you can follow my storm status on twitter.com I'll try to post "I'm alive" notes here during the storm if I can still access the 'net from home or from my iPhone.

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