Hurricane Ike has tripled its size in the Gulf of Mexico as it heads
to Texas posing a threat to 5.6 million people living in Houston.
President George Bush has declared an emergency for Texas, his home
state, and 1,350 buses are evacuating residents in preparation for
Ike's landfall.
Miami-based National Hurricane Center told Daily Planet Media that
Ike's winds cover an area bigger than Katrina that barreled into New
Orleans in 2005.
Weather forecasters said Ike is so big that it's going to inundate a
huge part of the Texas coast.
The main concern is, however, that Ike is following a track similar to
the 1900 Galveston hurricane that killed 8,000 people, the deadliest
storm in U.S. history.
The storm is expected to sweep through the center of the Gulf, missing
the offshore Louisiana oil and natural gas fields.
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