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As I write this, Hurricane Ike is within twelve hours of making landfall in Texas; currently, it appears that the storm will strike directly at the Houston-Galveston area. Houstonians with long memories will be comparing Ike to Hurricane Alicia, which devastated the region in 1983, killing twenty-one and doing $2.6 billion in damage. (1) Younger residents and/or more recent immigrants to the area will recall Tropical Storm Allison, which though not of hurricane force, lashed the city and much of east Texas for two weeks in June 2001, leaving in its wake twenty-three dead, $6.4 billion in losses, and tens of thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. (2) And of course, more ...