Hurricane Ike Live Thread IV

NOAA/NHC ^ | 14 September 2008 | NOAA/NHC

[arkady_renko]

I think it was up pretty high on its keel. It was sitting in a lane on the highway with a dozen other boats looking like they were waiting to pay a toll. They had been lifted up on the surge, moved sideways and set down as nice as could be. It was bizarre.

You've got to be tired by now.

[spectre]

I think we can put the "hype" about the "hype" behind us now...LOL.

Got a kick out of Geraldo saying the people in Houston should "boil" their water just to be safe.

Earth to Geraldo...they have no electricity!

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[American Quilter]

I’m totally speculating, and from very far away, but I’m wondering if the press remembers how stupidly they repeated every wild rumor about deaths from Katrina, and are trying to be more responsible this time, hence the lack of reports until actual facts are known. That kind of professionalism would raise my low opinion of them slightly.

[shield]

I was shocked...after what the news guys were telling us of course that was on my portable radio; we'd be without power for at least 2 weeks.

I had bought a fan run by batteries which helped a whole lot. My sister in law called me from Ft. Worth...she had evacuated there. When I answered the phone...she said oh you have electricity...I said NO...I bought a phone that does not need electricity.

I too was quite impressed when my power came back on. I had just been trying to figure out where I could go to a walmart and buy a battery operated hair dyer. LOL...

[onemiddleamerican]

Listenied to Geraldo talking to Coast Guard guy; he says the CG rescued 33 people and 3 pets today.

While that is good news for the people rescued, it's not at all encouraging regarding the estimated thousands who didn't heed the evacuation orders and stayed on the island.

Maybe that's why nobody is showing video of the west end of Galveston Island; they can't find it.

Prayers for the souls lost...

[Spktyr]

The Viking Kitties are busy powering his house. :D

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From TXCN, an interview with a Galveston man evacuated to San Antonio. He stated that he lived four blocks from the Seawall and that he knew his house was gone. When asked what he intended to do now, he stated, “Start all over again. Rebuild. I got my family. [shrug]”

[Spktyr]

They’re not reporting them because Texas officials are simply outright refusing to discuss the matter with the press. After Katrina, *I* wouldn’t discuss it with them either.

[deport]

To put Crystal Beach and Gilcrist into perspective for the forum the following map shows the Bolivar Peninsular. The Hwy 87 insignia is about midpoint of the peninsular and is approximately the location of Crystal Beach and Gilcrist is to the east of that a few miles. This peninsular is narrow with no protection to the gulf. On the east end is High Island where Hwy 124 which turns north to Winnie on I-10 about 25 miles west of Beaumont. Hwy 87 from High Island eastward towards Port Arthur used to exist until another hurricane wipe it out some years ago and it was never rebuilt. I suspect the existing portion of 87 will be heavily damaged after Ike.

To add to the info our local weather man says the storm surge at High Island was 14.25' last night. Thus that would have put the entire consular under water as the surge came inland. The structures were mostly beach cabins on stilts and some smaller associated commercial operations.

[AFPhys]

YES... I love it when people just say, “hey, it was an error, I made it, so I was stupid, next question...”

Don’t you just love ol’Ray Wilkinson’s ““I didn’t say I had all my marbles, OK?””

I would love to hear the language he would use to say that in the local pub. I can imagine a few versions, and just the imagining makes me laugh like crazy!

[STARWISE]

That’s what it looks like. But, from
what I’m reading, it seems to have
been fairly sound structurally.

I’m thinking if the officials and
media were staying there, they
probably did their due diligence
before hand.

[shield]

Thanks for sharing...someone had said Orange, TX was gone. Guess that was bad information. I’m so happy Orange isn’t gone. ;o)

[Spktyr]

As much as I dislike Whoraldo, he was just repeating what the Houston authorities were telling people to do.

Boiling water does NOT take electricity, and almost every Texan has a BBQ. Old fashioned fire will boil water just fine.

[NautiNurse]

In the MSNBC video just below the Coast Guard aerial...the camera man asks the chopper pilot to slow down, “Because there’s a lot of good damage...”

[Amelia]

Thanks, Deport. Just the map looks ominous.

[PleaseNoMore]

I heard that too...Vultures, the lot of them.

[NautiNurse]

I heard earlier today the San Luis Hotel lost part of its roof, and a lot of water got into the walls.

[penelopesire]

“I had bought a fan run by batteries which helped a whole lot”

Those things are life savers...more important than water...LOL!

We were without electricity for 4 days this summer and would not have made it without a battery fan.

[STARWISE]

See post #1486

[metmom]

It could be a squall line. I looked at some other more recent radar maps and don’t see it anymore. They tend to be short lived like thunderstorms.

It’s behind a second front that is behind the one in the midwest. It could be the reaction you’re thinking of connected to Ike. It would make sense as the second cold front would be colder than the one preceding it so if the really warm air got that far, it would be more likely to form.

I would think that the only significance it would have would be to show how far the moisture from Ike is reaching. Unless it spawned tornadoes, then the residents there would think it had more.

[pax_et_bonum]

A group of my lady friends and I were at a beach house in Crystal Beach in July of this year when one of the ladies commented, as we sat on the second story deck looking out over the neighborhood and water, that all it would take would be one hurricane and “all of this would be gone.”