Posted on 09/12/2008 11:29:13 PM PDT by NautiNurse
That 100-mph pea gravel is why seeing the reporters out in the storms always makes me nervous.
tattle tale
Well, for your aggravation, and putting up with junk, please know that you have “paid it forward” to many of us b/c without this thread to get info, I would have been a nervous wreck. Thank you...
I am glad jeffers reported you, and I was thinking about doing it myself.
When people are nervous about loved ones and an approaching storm, it is highly inconsiderate to deliberately harass posters simply because you didn’t get your way.
Its gonna be fine. Hope there wasnt to much property damage on the island
A few days ago someone said the exact same thing happened during Hurricane Alicia. Hard to believe that situation wasn’t fixed in 25 years.
Out all day.
Very good news .... so glad y’all are ok
and with light property damage.
Prayers for the others facing severe
problems.
The worst part is that the bloody thing just won’t die. It’s probably STILL going to be a hurricane when it gets to Canada.
Sigh...
The good news, if there is any, is that the eyewall winds at landfall, on both the front and back of the eye, were parallel to the long axis of the island. Breach and scour effects are most likely when wind and waves move across the island and transport sand, fill and foundations into the West Bay.
Please don’t take offense at either my answer or that of others who flew to my defense before I even saw your note... I was off exploring other hurricane data in the interim.
My answer was serious, and I didn’t take your question as being a personal slam at me, and no offense was taken by me. I thought it was a fair question, and deserved a fair answer, and I hope you saw my answer as respecting the question as being fair. As well, I believe I was respectful in my initial request, and provided a reason, and it was answered just as respectfully. Some others may have been terse, but I’ve seen some reasons in the past that inspire their knee jerk reactions, and I understand that too.
We just have to make accommodation on threads like this in some ways so as many as possible can partake of them. Sometimes we have to remind each other in kindness of limits, as I did, so we can be as FRiendly as possible.
(now... I suspect I’m about 150 posts behind or so... I hope no major fight broke out in the interim... I almost don’t want to look...)
No. It was just downgraded to tropical storm. I am sitting in the middle of it.
Since the search and rescue teams are presently unable to reach the west end of the island, that information will not be known for many days.
Its here now and is really mild, it just dropped from a cat 1 to a tropical storm at about 1:00 I an amazed it isnt dropping that much water. I thought water would be the major problem with this storm. That and a sustained storm surge in Galveston.
Water was the problem in Galveston; hence, the inability of rescue personnel to get to many areas still now.
You said it. My wife and are are concerned for our FRiends in Houston, and we know we’re not likely to hear from them for quite some time.
I trust you have been well...I haven’t seen you for a very long time, Miss Marple.
Ike’s northernmost feeder band is already drawing moisture SW out of the trough down at the boundary layer. Ike’s going to win, with effects yet unknown.
Thanks.
Me either. I just saw something on FOX that I did not like. An elderly woman died when a tree fell on her house. It was..what was she thinking...why didn’t she evacuate..etc...etc. Good grief. At least the guy made a comment that she might have been told to stay.
I am listening to a HAM Radio net and there is a station up on Galveston but the airwaves are atrocious and I am prolly to close so the signal is gonna skip over me. I cant get a copy on the report. But they are transmitting!
Yeah. I don’t know how much Waco will get but my mom lives in an old house surrounded by big trees. She said she would stay at my sister’s house until this blows thru.
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