Just as the volunteer community stepped up for Gustav, so it was with Ike.

Here are some of the resources we found for hams interested in following hurricanes.

The national HF Hurricane Watch Net can be found on 14.325 MHz (3.950 Mhz alternate). Gulf Coast nets include:

Emergency Net: Daytime 7.285 MHz Night 3.873 MHz
Health & Welfare: Daytime 7.290 MHz Night 3.935 MHz
Texas Weather Net: 7.248
More Frequencies and abbreviations from N1TAI

Here’s the Texas Emergency Traffic Plan (tnx Wa5WHN)

Hurricane resources on the web:

Weather Underground tropical page.
Storm Pulse Tracker
MSNBC’s Tracker
National Hurricane Center and NHC mobile edition.
Storm surge data.
Interdictor’s special Internet Relay Chat channel

Watch all the affected Texas TV station feeds here. An quick reference with the latest radar and satellite imagery can be found here.

Echolink is a great way to monitor the situation. Use one of the reflector channels (VKEMCOMM, N5API, KC4QLP-C) and avoid the WX_Talk conference during the height of the storm, unless you are filing a report. You can listen to an audio stream of the Echolink traffic along with local scanner feeds here. And even larger list of audio feeds can be found here.

Dennis Dura, K2DCD conducts the ARRL’s hurricane page

Other resources:
Hurricane Watch Net
VOIPWx.net.

Andy Carvin’s hurricanes08.org has become a clearing house for hurricane information. He’s also the guy behind www.hurricanewiki.org.

You can also follow Ike via Twitter’s real-time search. Here are some special Twitter accounts you can follow that are Hurricane specific. @redcross @milvius @hurricanealerts @hurricanes2008.