Another miss!

We sure have been lucky in missing the hurricanes this year. This one (Ike) was so bad that I felt as if it did hit here. All those poor people who are wiped out. So depressing. But so many homes built right on the water! What were they thinking??? And why did they stay? There was a mandatory evacuation, they were told to stay meant probable death! This was the biggest storm forcasters had seen, it covered the whole gulf! Yet so many stayed. I just dont know what they were thinking. All I can say is... it's sad, really sad.