Hurricane Ike is very dangerous, prayers requested

I have many Catholic friends in the Houston-Galveston region. Hurricane Ike is currently heading for a direct hit on that area tonight. Ike is a larger storm than Katrina, covering most the gulf of mexico. In fact, "At 9:30am EDT this morning, Ike earned a 5.6 on this scale, the highest kinetic energy of any Atlantic storm in the past 40 years."

Here is the current warning issued for the storm. Simply put: "get out."