Brave Few Plan to Ride Out Ike
By CLAYTON SANDELL

As Hurricane Ike makes its way to the Texas Gulf Coast, the National Weather Service issued a blunt warning to residents of Galveston. “Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family, one- or two-story homes, will face certain death.”

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Admittedly, I’ve never experienced a hurricane. As natural disasters go, I’ve been through a mild tornado and a couple of blizzards (I’m not sure those were disasters; they were really more annoying than anything), so I may be reading this wrong. However, I would hope the NWS wouldn’t just toss around the term “certain death” casually. According to the guy filling in for Glenn Beck today, there are reports that the entire island of Galveston will probably be under water at some point!

Tell me again, why do people live on the coast?