Views From Houston

As Ike approached, I watched on Google Earth and the Houston TranStar highway camera system. From Galveston in the south, the cameras blinked out heading north as the storm made headway.

IH-45 heading south at Bayou Vista at 5:22 pm Central Time.

IH-45 and the TCT Railroad. The camera shows an exit on the right in the first picture, and it has zoomed in on the exit sign in the second.

The city of Jasper on Saturday morning. In the center top one may see the golden arches braving the tempest.