Hurricane Ike is enormous, and heading right for Galveston, Texas. CBS News' Teri Okita reported at noon that officials are calling Ike "the storm of ages".

So far, we know it's a category 2 with 30-plus foot waves in the eye of the storm. That's a three story building of water coming ashore overnight meteorologists say. When it does make shore, it could be a devasting category 3 storm that would cause death and severe damage. It's not even the storm that is the main concern, it's the storm surge behind it that could cause massive flooding to our friends in Texas and perhaps the Lousiana Coast Line.

I am planning to monitor the storm over night as long as possible--and get the information on this blog as soon as I can.

jr