We have arrived at the 3 year anniversary of Hurricane Ike so I thought I would take some time to remember this powerful and wide ranging storm. This thread will focus mainly on the inland impacts with special emphasis on the damaging wind event that raked the Ohio Valley on September 14. Hurricane Ike made landfall as a strong category 2 hurricane on the north end of Galveston Island in the early morning hours of September 13. Ike was expected to weaken to tropical storm status by late in