Ike lets his presence be known

The low clouds that capture the reflection of the city lightswere whisking past yesterday at sundown, helping the moon to play peekaboo.

Hurricane Ike was sending out its tentacles as in thrashed around in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico passing us by.

That's not to say he didn't leave scars here. There were evacuations and flooding in the areas down close to the Gulf of Mexico. There were starting to be power outages in the New Orleans area -- people who had just returned and had their power restored, were now in the dark again.
In the cities of our region closesto the Gulf that suffered the most from Hurricane they were expected hurricane force winds or near hurricane force winds from Ike's brush by.

I took this picture out on the levee near where the 23 mile Causeway bridge comes ashore in Metairie from its span of Lake Pontchartrain. You can see these building rise up in the sky as you are coming across the Causeway from the north shore.

--steve buser