Hurricane Ike - Certain Death?

Have we become too familiar with hurricanes? The National Weather Service thinks we're not taking Ike seriously enough. Residents living in single-family homes in some parts of coastal Texas face "certain death" if they do not heed orders to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Ike's arrival, the National Weather Service said Thursday night. Certain death!

The unusually strong wording came in a weather advisory regarding storm surge along the shoreline of Galveston Bay, which could see maximum water levels of 15 to 22 feet, the agency said. "All neighborhoods ... and possibly entire coastal communities ... will be inundated during the period of peak storm tide, " the advisory said. "Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family one- or two-story homes will face certain death."

This is not hype!

With a little over 24 hours to landfall, Ike is pushing Gulf Coast water ahead of it like a bulldozer pushing sand. Those on the coast, wherever coast is, have the surge problem. Others have a wind problem. Some will have a tornado problem. Let's face it, hurricanes of whatever size or intensity, are problems for many people. Beyond disrupting life for a few days, hurricanes can change a person's destiny- in many ways.

"Things" which people have worked for all of their lives can be taken away in a few moments. But on the other hand, priorities can be changed that will take people in directions that they would not have otherwise gone. So as millions hunker down and another million evacuate, fate begins dealing the cards and we all have to play the hand we're dealt.

As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.

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