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Ike reached Houston

Hurricane Category 2 has touched down in Galveston. Then he reached the metropolitan area: 4 million in the dark

Galveston (Texas) - Hurricane Ike has reached the city of Houston in Texas. The wind force is estimated at 160 km, with gusts up to 217 km per hour causing concern for the damage above the tallest buildings. According to CNN, more than 4 million of people in metropolitan Houston are without electricity right now, for the passage of Ike, which remains a Category 2 hurricane and made landfall on the coast with winds blowing from a Category 3.

BUSH: "SERIOUS DAMAGE TO ENERGY RISK" - E 'Bush was to say that Ike is a huge weather phenomenon that "is causing serious damage." The U.S. president spoke from the White House, where he followed the situation, and added that he was concerned about the impact that the hurricane may cause the energy sector. The U.S. government is monitoring the situation on the oil market to ensure that no there are increases in gasoline prices related to the difficulties caused by Ike. The emergency is still in progress, the president said, adding that "rescue teams are ready to spring into action 'in Houston when the worst is past. Bush will send in the next few hours, the Minister of Internal Security, Michael Chertoff, who is in charge of civil protection.

ARRIVAL - Ike's landfall, preceded by gusts of wind intensity of 175 miles an hour on the island of Galveston, where he presented raised from the sea coast against a real its wall of water, around 2.10 am local time, 9.10 in Italy. Despite the imminent danger and calls the authorities, just before the local media had reported that about 40 percent of the population of Galveston, which is 23,000 people out of a total of 58,000, were unwilling or unable to leave and remain barricaded in their homes, at the mercy of the raging elements. Ike still has the strength of a Category 2 hurricane.

EVACUATION - Throughout Texas there are over one million residents evacuated. But thousands have decided to stay despite the National Hurricane Center in Miami has warned them that "will face certain death. " At 5 on Saturday morning the storm, whose surface is almost equal to that of Texas, had been located in the Gulf of Mexico to 85 miles from Galveston, already lashed by strong winds and waves of almost 6 meters. In the seaside town of 58,000 inhabitants, is the curfew for the next three nights "from eight in the evening at five o'clock in the morning," but it seems to be 23 thousand people who ignored the evacuation order. At the time Ike is still classified in category 2 on a scale from one to five but experts will rise soon to category three.

will be catastrophic " - In an interview with CNN, the governor of Texas, Rick Perry, has estimated that the damage caused by the "monster", as he calls the hurricane, will amount to at least 100 billion dollars will be the most expensive natural disaster for the United States, he says. Worst of Hurricane Katrina that struck the American coast of the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. There are about 1500 soldiers ready to intervene, while the USS Nassau amphibious assault ship of the U.S. Navy with 45 helicopters and four planes, will start as soon as possible for the Gulf of Mexico, has said Bryan Whitman, Pentagon spokesman. As a precaution, many refineries were shut down: oil production in the Gulf was interrupted at 97% and the oil companies have evacuated their platforms.