LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Hurricane Ike spared Louisiana a direct hit, but its winds and waters killed two people as coastal areas were inundated with a storm surge that crawled some 30 miles inland, flooding tens of thousands of homes and making many roads impassable.
Wow Mig....you're amazing, I can't believe you were able to map it out so well, you knew exactly where we were! Everything you read was right on the money, our area was hit with an 11 foot storm surge a few hours before day-break and the power was already out by then so, we climbed up out of the attic....I was up & down during the hurricane....you want to be in the attic in case the water rises but you don't want to be up there when the roof blows off! I got hit in the forehead with the edge of a door that blew open and Mike has a black eye from a flying piece of wood and I'm sore all over.... we've never been hit with more that 5 or 6 feet of storm surge right there at the house....storm surge is just like a tidal wave and this one traveled 15 miles inland past our house for a 30 mile ride....the tsunami tidal wave only went inland a couple of miles and it was taller. I'm so sorry that you were worried....
