By: Joe Strupp With Hurricane Ike set to barrel down on south Texas, the Daily News of Galveston County -- which sits smack in the path of the storm -- is making clear the feelings of local residents in its Friday paper.
And even getting biblical.
"Yikes! Here comes Ike," the Page One headline says Friday. In addition, the paper has no bones about essentially running for cover, telling readers its offices will be closed today, although coverage continues on its Web site, and that delivery will be disrupted.
"The Daily News is planning to publish Friday?s edition early to give carriers extra time to deliver it. The Daily News offices will be closed at noon today because of Hurricane Ike," Editor Heber Taylor wrote in a blog item Thursday. "Saturday?s edition will be distributed with Sunday?s paper.
"Newspaper carriers may not be able to reach some areas of the county. In those areas where the paper cannot be delivered, the newspapers will be saved and delivered when conditions permit," he adds.
Taylor also wrote that "because of possible disruptions of newspaper delivery to home subscribers during Hurricane Ike, the Friday and Saturday print editions of The Daily News will be made available to all readers as PDF pages at galvnews.com."
In a print editor's note Friday, Taylor cited a local pastor's note to the paper in his effort to calm concerned readers.
Referring to the Rev. Bert Bagley of Moody United Methodist Church, who informed Taylor in a note that church services would be cancelled Sunday, the editor cited the pastor's reference to a passage from the ancient Book of Proverbs: ?Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not upon your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path.?
"It dawned on us that it might be one that many of the Galveston County residents who have stayed behind and who are planning to weather the storm would want to see," Taylor wrote.
UPDATE: Houston is also expected to bear the brunt, but the Houston Chronicle is staying put. At 2:20 PM ET on its site it was outlining two possible scenarios for the storm's path, with one good for the city and one not so good. Flooding has already hit with much more to come no matter what. The top hed: WIDESPREAD FLOODING: IKE 200 MILES OUT.
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