Here's what Ike looked like from the International Space Station a few hours ago. Look at the bumps in the spiral bands. Each bump is a major thunderstorm cell.
WeatherUnderground.com reports: "a good measure of the storm surge potential is Integrated Kinetic Energy (IKE). Ike's Integrated Kinetic Energy has fallen from 149 Terajoules this morning to 124 at 3:30 pm EDT this afternoon. However, this is still larger than the total energy Katrina had at landfall, and Ike's storm surge potential rates a 5.1 on a scale of 1 to 6."
As of now, you can still get current Galveston surface weather, updated every minute or so:
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=77550
The live Galveston web cams have gone offline:
http://www.galveston.com/webcams/thespottwo/
You may be able to get images captured earlier: http://www.galveston.com/webcams/ I assume the server itself isn't on the island, and so is still running, although with no live data.
More space photos:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/hurricanes_as_seen_from_orbit.html
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