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 |
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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)
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Yeah, we finally saw sunlight this afternoon. Still under a high surf advisory from Ike, although the flood threat has finally dissipated now that Ike is 560 miles away.
Limestone county - I don’t blame you for leaving, and GodSpeed on your journey. You guys really got whacked with Rita. We have to stay, because my husband is an un-official community leader here and we have a lot of little old folks in mobile homes we need to watch out for...
Chainsaws up!
Maybe Golden?? Or near Lake Tawakoni, then?
Anyway ...
I got a call from my aunt tonight around 8:30. She
asked me if I have heard from my Dad. He hadn’t
called me. She said he is in the hospital again,
this time with a “kink” in his intestine. So they
are doing surgery in the morning to take care of
that. My aunt and uncle will go to the hospital
in the morning to be with Dad for his surgery. The’re
driving up from Tyler.
So Dad won’t be around the house to deal with whatever
the storm might deal out to the house. (And power
outages are a common occurance at his place, even without
any hurricanes around, lol!).
I’ll be an IDIOT too,,,
JPSB!,,,GIT YER ASS OUTTA THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NOW!!!
** pinging Glenn Campbell! **
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“I am a lineman for the county and I drive the main road
Searchin’ in the sun for another overload...”
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/campbell-glen/wichita-lineman-653.html
Not too much happenin’ there, I think, lol!
My Dad was born and raised very close to Quitman.
He enlisted in the Air Force in 1949, served 26 years
and retired at Carswell AFB in Ft. Worth. He moved to
Quitman around 1979 and has lived there ever since.
It actually is more happenin’ now than when the folks
moved out there. Used to be that when they pulled up
to Highway 37 from CR 2140, there wasn’t hardly ever
a car to have to wait for. Now, there is a lot more
traffic and one has to wait for a clear way to get on
to 37 ...
Mark
Don’t know about the Witchita lineman, but I sure as hell thank the Alabama lineman who turned our power back on yesterday.
Heh! You GO, girl!
(Be safe.)
I know the feeling.
It was the linemen from North Carolina who restored our power after Katrina.
Thank you for that link.
Very interesting.
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“Brought to you by State Farm Insurance”, lol!
My insurance company. :)
Be safe .. hope all is well with your Dad.
Thanks.
Yep, that takes me back to the late 60’s when that
song first came out.
Here’s an update from Central Louisiana:
We’ve already had winds strong enough that some homes in Alexandria have lost power tonight.
As I’ve said before, the thing that scares me the most is the fact that we’ve got debris EVERYWHERE left over from Gustav. People in my neighborhood have been using chainsaws around the clock to cut down parts of damaged trees (and yes, this is *Pineville* and the pine trees do break in the middle). For the most part, the branches are stacked neatly at curbside (though pickups that don’t seem to be scheduled very often), but that isn’t going to mean a thing when tropical storm force winds send them flying in every direction.
Another thing that caught my eye was a discussion thread on The Town Talk, Alexandria’s newspaper with an online forum. Someone wrote in to complain about the stupidity of their neighbors who dispose of tree parts and other storm debris by tossing them into drainage ditches, thereby hindering the flow of water and creating floods.
I realize that Gustav is probably last week’s news in many people’s minds, but it’s just way too soon for this part of Louisiana to be hit again by Ike. The thought of all these severed tree limbs turning into flying projectiles is very scary to me, to put it mildly!
Thank you!
Well, guess I better hit the horizontal rack for a
few hours now.
G’night! :)
leave or face certain death is what I’d call non ambiguous...
Go left my man, it’s best for all of us
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