Ike - New Track Puts Corpus Christi, Texas in Line of Fire [UPDATED TRACK, SATELLITE IMAGE]

"This critter was angry, really angry," Delia Oliveras, 64, said in the central city of Camaguey. Winds tore the roof from the living room where her family was huddled, and they fled to a covered patio. "We have seen hurricanes, but never as big as this." - MSNBC

NVDL: Ike's track shifted south late on Monday, meaning New Orleans may be off the hook. Landfall is now predicted to be on the southern Texas coast - specifically Corpus Christi on midnight Saturday. Ike is Cat 1 now, with maximum winds gusting to 95mph.

clipped from www.msnbc.msn.com Two men were killed in central Cuba while removing an antenna from a roof. On the island's east, a woman died when her house collapsed on her and a man was killed by a falling tree. Cuba, which has carried out well-executed evacuations over the years, ordered 1.2 million people to seek safety with friends and relatives or at government shelters, state television reported. Storm could recharge at sea The Cuban weather service said Ike was unlikely to regain strength before coming ashore unless it moved away from land, where the 89-degree Fahrenheit waters of the Caribbean could fire it up. Monster Ike Havana fears a head-on hit after storm slams Caribbean islands. It was expected to emerge into the Gulf on Tuesday and regain strength on a path through the heart of the offshore oil fields that produce a quarter of U.S. oil and 15 percent of its natural gas. Humans to blame?