Short and simple. Recent predictions put the largest surge from Ike right up the Houston Ship Chanel. Estimated height the same as the one that wiped out Cameron La. during Rita.
This one is going to be bad boys and girls. The bald anchor for The Weather Chanel is camped out on the Seawall, so Galveston is doomed. Recent wind and swell models confirm this.
Now I am going to go do what men have always done in these situations.
I'm going surfing!