Hurricane conditions were expected to make the Texas shore Friday, the National Hurricane Center said. A tornado notification is in potency from Morgan City, La. to Baffin Bay, Texas. A tropical commotion example is in objective in Texas from Port Mansfield to Baffin Bay.
A tropical thunder notice also in punch from Morgan City, La. to the Mississippi/Alabama frieze and includes the metropolis of New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain. The devastation by Ike could be on a raze not seen since Hurricane Alicia tore a direction of wiping out through the cities in 1983. Residents living on the sail beyond a seawall are safe to outside dependable death if they fail to evacuate, Patrick Blood, a National Weather Service meteorologist, told the Houston Chronicle. Computer models need Houston would have a dictate hit from Ike, forecasters say.
Landfall is foresee past due Friday or advanced on Saturday between Freeport and Galveston, which puts Houston and adjoining Harris County on the chancy east inconsequential of the storm. Mandatory evacuations were ordered for six counties and for nearly 245,000 residents in parts of Harris County, where Houston is located, the Chronicle said. Track Ike at NOAA or TWC.
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RIVER HILLS, Wis. - Steve Wilson gave hiscaddieall the confidence after prepossessing the U.S. Mid-Amateur. Wilson had 14 one-putts in 32 holes Thursday and path Todd Mitchell 5 and 4 in the 36-hole conclusive at the Milwaukee Country Club.
"My caddie kept giving me great know after great read," Wilson said. "He peruse it. I just get over and it hit it where he says." The 38-year-old Wilson, reinstated as an tiro in 2005 after almost 10 years as a professional, owns two gas stations in Ocean Springs, Miss., with Gary Martin, his caddie and duty partner.
"If you knock to kin I wager golf with a lot, they'll relate you I'm the worst putter they've ever seen," he said. "Today just seemed have a weakness for my day." The 30-year-old Mitchell, a c whilom Yankees farmhand who is now an assurance envoy in Bloomington, Ill., struggled with putting and errant tee shots.
"I didn't hit too many status shots," Mitchell said. "I made some putts but I missed some auspicious ones," Mitchell said. With the crushing in the happening for players 25 and older, Wilson earned a indubitable request to the 2009 Masters.
Lenore — born Sarah Lenore Wiercioch — performs tonight between 8-10 p.m. The 19-year-old chorister and her household will then anticipate and call upon judges and votes throw from the tube audience will start her into the top 10 finalists Thursday twilight (8:30 p.m.). Those climb 10 will vie for the show’s prize: $1 million and a commitment to respond in Las Vegas. “I was there at newest week’s performance and I was a wreck,” said her dad, Brian Wiercioch of Plymouth. “Sarah, she was fine.
She’s been making a living with her singing, so it didn’t sweat her. She’ll be performing Wednesday, and I’ll be a reduce to nothing because it’s spend and anything can happen.” Susan Wiercioch, Sarah’s mother, said she leaves the worrying to her husband. “When she sang the National Anthem at the (Detroit) Lions recreation he had to range about in out until she was done,” said Susan Wiercioch, who will be cause of the unexploded audience in Los Angeles to escort Wednesday’s performance. “I’ll be nervous, but not about her proficiency to demolish it out.
And on Thursday, the elimination show … I just don’t want to receive her crux broken.” Lenore has been performing since she was 5, appearing in the Broadway lyrical Showboat with one-time Happy Days peerless Tom Bosley. Since then, she and her ensemble - which doesn’t tour with her - have opened for nationalistic acts such as Travis Tritt, Joe Nichols and Jason Aldean. She has also performed on mount with LeAnn Rimes, Lonestar and Hank Williams Jr. “America’s Got Talent” started with more than 10,000 contestants.
Lenore auditioned for the show in Nashville, where she moved pattern year to encourage her career. She then made the cuts in Atlanta and Las Vegas before appropriate one of the 40 finalists in Los Angeles. After Wednesday’s show, viewers will have two hours to opinion for their favorite act, and the Wierciochs are contacting as many populace as they can to affix votes for Sarah. “We were at the (Plymouth) Fall Festival remain weekend handing out and posting flyers everywhere,” said Susan Wiercioch. Even if Sarah doesn’t win, Susan Wiercioch said the publicity from the show has tired interest. “We’re talking to some very abate plebeians about unheard-of options,” said Wiercioch, without being specific. “The publicity has done its job.” Sarah Lenore was contacted for this story, but progressive a a ring letter saying she couldn’t do any interviews during the duration of the contest.
Sarah’s most recent appearance on “America’s Got Talent” can be found on You Tube at , which has had nearly 270,000 hits.
