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Hurricane Ike appears to be headed for Houston, and the city's Office of Emergency Management has created a Web site designed to keep residents safe from the storm.
Ike's wind field is considered larger than that of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and its strongest winds extend as far as 115 miles from the eye. It's following a track similar to the 1900 Galveston hurricane that killed 8,000 people, the deadliest storm in U.S. history.
Houstonhidefromthewind.org is a graphic map that shows the city by Zip code and what areas could be hardest hit by Ike's winds and its storm surge.
The map shows the current Zip code areas that are being evacuated, in addition to a storm location map.
Channel 2 in Houston also is offering a page to answer viewers' questions about Ike.
You can check out National Weather Service radar from the Houston-Galveston, Texas, area here.
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