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Hurricane Ike Live Thread Part II
NOAA/NHC ^ | 10 September 2008 | NOAA/NHC

Posted on 09/10/2008 2:18:37 PM PDT by NautiNurse

Texas began issuing mandatory and voluntary evacuations as Hurricane Ike continued to strengthen and slowly moved toward an uncertain landfall destination in the western Gulf of Mexico. Texas Governor Rick Perry issued a disaster declaration in advance of the storm. Louisiana Governor Jindal released several hundred buses to Texas for evacuation assistance.

Reports from Cuba indicate widespread damage from Hurricane Ike, which raked the length of the island nation. The U.S. State Department again offered Cuba humanitarian assistance after a previous offer was declined by the Cuban government.

The stock market Wednesday rose as investors bought oil stocks and and oill futures fell.

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Category Wind Speed Barometric Pressure Storm Surge Damage Potential
Tropical
Depression
< 39 mph
< 34 kts
    Minimal
Tropical
Storm
39 - 73 mph
34 - 63 kts
    Minimal
Hurricane 1
(Weak)
74 - 95 mph
64 - 82 kts
28.94" or more
980.02 mb or more
4.0' - 5.0'
1.2 m - 1.5 m
Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2
(Moderate)
96 - 110 mph
83 - 95 kts
28.50" - 28.93"
965.12 mb - 979.68 mb
6.0' - 8.0'
1.8 m - 2.4 m
Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3
(Strong)
111 - 130 mph
96 - 112 kts
27.91" - 28.49"
945.14 mb - 964.78 mb
9.0' - 12.0'
2.7 m - 3.7 m
Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4
(Very strong)
131 - 155 mph
113 - 135 kts
27.17" - 27.90"
920.08 mb - 944.80 mb
13.0' - 18.0'
3.9 m - 5.5 m
Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5
(Devastating)
Greater than 155 mph
Greater than 135 kts
Less than 27.17"
Less than 920.08 mb
Greater than 18.0'
Greater than 5.5m
Catastrophic building failures possible

Previous Threads:
Hurricane Ike Live Thread I
TS Hanna, Hurricane Ike & TS Josephine [Other than that, the tropics are calm]
Tropical Storms Hanna, Ike and Josephine, TD Gustav (Other than that, the tropics are calm)


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: hurricane; ike; louisiana; texas; topical; tropical; weather
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To: texgal
Glad to hear west end is under mandatory evacuation orders. Last I heard it was voluntary. No body wants to do another Rita like evac! Ike might not strengthen to a cat 4, it is still a cat 2. Friendswood should be OK. Seabrook, Khema, Clear Lake, LaPort waterfronts are going to get hammered. Texas City too.
361 posted on 09/11/2008 2:46:29 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: jpsb

they are depending on their previous seawall. people around here just don’t get it. pasadena having school today. no consideration for those smart enough to leave early...


362 posted on 09/11/2008 2:46:56 AM PDT by DrewsMum (Proud member of the Grand OIL Party!)
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To: jpsb
Seabrook, Khema, Clear Lake, LaPort waterfronts are going to get hammered. Texas City too.

They really didn't have much time to prepare for this one. Keep them in your prayers.

363 posted on 09/11/2008 2:50:50 AM PDT by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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To: DrewsMum

i meant to say precious seawall...being a tad but sarcastic


364 posted on 09/11/2008 2:54:02 AM PDT by DrewsMum (Proud member of the Grand OIL Party!)
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To: DrewsMum

Everyone is acting like a major hurricane is not 2 days away!


365 posted on 09/11/2008 2:57:39 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: jpsb

like i have said before...it will take a major disaster of a storm for houston to finally “get it”


366 posted on 09/11/2008 3:05:55 AM PDT by DrewsMum (Proud member of the Grand OIL Party!)
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To: TheMom
Incoming.

This is gonna be fun!

367 posted on 09/11/2008 3:37:19 AM PDT by humblegunner (I'm voting for McCain because he's white.)
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To: NautiNurse
The projected track appears to be shifting clockwise.
368 posted on 09/11/2008 3:38:14 AM PDT by Clive
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To: TheMom

“... far west Houston,...”

And then there was Allison. That one ate my car in Sugar Land the day before the ‘great’ flood downtown. The Rice campus was a big swamp.


369 posted on 09/11/2008 3:50:07 AM PDT by Enosh (†)
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To: Enosh

I’m trying to remember, but wasn’t it Allison that caused streets in downtown Houston to be covered with shattered glass?


370 posted on 09/11/2008 4:02:08 AM PDT by Nachoman (My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
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To: Nachoman

That was Alica, in 1983


371 posted on 09/11/2008 4:11:00 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: Nachoman

Hurricane Alicia of ‘83 was the bullseye on downtown Houston, which popped glass out as if buildings were bug-eyed stress squeeze toys.

TS Allison of ‘01 was the thunderstorm from Hell.


372 posted on 09/11/2008 4:14:56 AM PDT by Enosh (†)
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To: Orange1998

Hey Orange, how you holding up? DH managed to find a generator in Brenham last night. It was the last one in the area.

We received an email from the head of our school district last night saying that school will be in session for Cy-Fair ISD Thursday and Friday. To me, that’s the height of stupidity. That’s just what we need are thousands of buses on the roads while people are trying to evacuate.

Is everyone going to put their general location in their tagline like what we did for Rita?


373 posted on 09/11/2008 4:41:08 AM PDT by Aggie Mama (Cypress (NW Houston))
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To: buickmackane
Please correct me on the exact details, but wasn’t it a bus full of nursing home patients that rolled over in bumper-to-bumper traffic?

Not a rollover. I think it was an oxygen tank (belonging to one of the patients) that ignited.

374 posted on 09/11/2008 4:50:11 AM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Global Warming Heretic -- http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com)
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To: MeekOneGOP; NautiNurse

Thanks Meek. Looks like the track is moving to the east of us now. I watch the ‘tracks’ on a link from Drudge and yesterday most went right over my area, now they have moved eastward. Time will tell...


375 posted on 09/11/2008 4:58:21 AM PDT by potlatch ("OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER")
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To: abb; abbi_normal_2; aberaussie; alancarp; Alas Babylon!; Alia; Alice in Wonderland; ...
Winds 100 mph, 945 mb, moving WNW at 10 mph.

Hurricane force winds extend outward 115 miles, and tropical
storm force winds extend 255 miles from the center.

Ike is located about 575 miles E of Brownsville Tx, and about miles SSE of the Mississippi River.


On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here-->

376 posted on 09/11/2008 4:58:27 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Palin won more votes in her Wasilla Mayoral race than Biden got in his 2008 Pres run)
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To: humblegunner
Depends on your definition of “fun”

If fun means frolicking and jolliness and jocularity then I don't think that's it.

If fun means OH CRAP that is a big ole ‘cane in the gulf and its gonna tear a lot of stuff up and we are gonna be a mess for a while then that would be correct

377 posted on 09/11/2008 5:00:17 AM PDT by Rightly Biased (Courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it<><)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

I recall wondering whether one of the patients on the bus was sneaking a cigarette around the oxygen tanks.


378 posted on 09/11/2008 5:01:19 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Palin won more votes in her Wasilla Mayoral race than Biden got in his 2008 Pres run)
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To: brytlea

Our utility companies around here are top notch. If the power (etc) does go off, it won’t be for long.

You ought to be an old hand at dealing with hurricanes. I’m sure you thought your sons well.


379 posted on 09/11/2008 5:02:38 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: Constitutionalist Conservative

The bus had very poor brake conditions and metal-on-metal friction sparked the fire, while O2 accelerated the flames. But the fire was well under way at the point so primary cause was the mechanical condition of the fly by night carrier.


380 posted on 09/11/2008 5:04:27 AM PDT by Dysart
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