Hurricane Ike Live Thread

NOAA/NHC ^ | 7 September 2008 | NOAA/NHC

[rodguy911]

Exactly!!

[buffyt]

Rita was headed this way and turned north and hit far east of here.

[jpsb]

If the forecast track holds, I expect evacuation of Galveston County Wednesday AM and Coastal Harris County Thursday AM. If the forecast track holds.

Personally I think Ike will be north and east of Galveston Bay by friday. But if not I am pretty sure I can handle being on the bad side of a Cat 3. Not real sure but pretty sure. Hope the evaces, if they happen, go better then they did with Rita.

Then next few days could be real nail biters.

[sheikdetailfeather]

per WFTV in Orlando, evacuation order has been lifted in the Keys.

[NautiNurse]

Hooray! We were getting worried about you. Wonderful to learn that you, your family and both of your properties weathered Gustav well. We missed you!

[AFPhys]

Part of the 11AM forecast tells me that Wayne Gretzky still has the puck and is zipping across the net:

"CUBAN RADAR AND VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THAT 
IKE CONTINUES MOVING WESTWARD OR 270/12. 

[...but since models are...] NOW IN MUCH BETTER
AGREEMENT THAT IKE WILL TURN SLIGHTLY WESTWARD IN ABOUT 3 DAYS. 
THIS TURN IS REFLECTED IN THE OFFICIAL FORECAST. HOWEVER...MUCH
UNCERTAINTY REMAINS REGARDING THE STRENGTH OF THE MID-LEVEL RIDGE
WHICH BUILDS IN THE WAKE OF THE EXITING SHORTWAVE. ACCORDINGLY...IT
IS STILL MUCH TOO SOON TO KNOW WHAT PORTIONS OF THE GULF COAST
COULD BE IMPACTED BY IKE."

Right now, all those models STILL don't have an idea when Wayne will shoot - or even if he will. I'm glad that SHIPS seems to have come into line, at least.

[sheikdetailfeather]

http://www.wftv.com/weather/17417133/detail.html

[AFPhys]

oops... that should have been 11AM “discussion”, not forecast.

[dfwgator]

Part of the 11AM forecast tells me that Wayne Gretzky still has the puck and is zipping across the net:

Where's Ogie Oglethorpe when you need him?

[jpsb]

That is surpising. Ike will past pretty near the Keys, plus the Keys will be on the bad side of Ike.

[rodguy911]

Looks like this thing is going over the Caribbean sea for quite a while any chances it will intensify?

[NautiNurse]

The models keep swinging it into LA

See post # 281

[sheikdetailfeather]

http://www.wftv.com/weather/17417133/detail.html

[jpsb]

Every update and that forecast line gets closer and closer to my house. lol.

[jdub]

I guess we’ll find out if Galveston’s sea walls do what they’re meant to do.

I sure hope so. My parent's home is on the north side of Seawall Blvd. I've had a bad feeling about Ike even before Gustav made landfall. I read somewhere here at FR that this storm has followed the path, as best as can be determined, of the great storm of 1900.

[dfwgator]

The irony is that the 1900 storm is referred to as “Isaac’s Storm.” Ike is short for Isaac. (Cue scary music)

[rodguy911]

I thought the Ike reference was to Gen./President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[mewzilla]

Jeez louise, those are scary pics. I hope the Cuban gov’t found the decency to get folks out of harm’s way.

[dfwgator]

Ike is actually short for both Isaac and Dwight (why it is for Dwight, I have no idea)

[AFPhys]

The irony is that the 1900 storm is referred to as “Isaac’s Storm.” Ike is short for Isaac. (Cue scary music)

LOL