Posted on 09/12/2008 11:29:13 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The eyewall of Hurricane Ike crossed Galveston Island in the early hours of Saturday morning. Reports indicate as many as 20,000 residents of Galveston Island chose not to evacuate as storm surge engulfed the island. The Freeport Chief of Police reported as many as 2000 residents did not evacuate as flood waters swamped coastal communities. There are widespread reports of power outages and coastal flooding throughout the Texas/Louisiana region. The U.S. Coast Guard received hundreds of calls Friday afternoon to rescue people stranded by flood waters along the barrier islands and Galveston Bay communities.
Multiple fires broke out in the Greater Houston area fueled by strong winds. Fire fighting efforts were hampered by flood waters. Brennan's Restaurant, a landmark in Houston, burned to the ground. A 584-foot freighter crippled in the Gulf of Mexico and its crew of 22 survived the storm after The U.S. Coast Guard was forced to abort rescue efforts Friday afternoon due to foul weather
Gulf Coast wholesale gasoline prices jumped to nearly $5 a gallon over fears that water and wind damage could keep the facilities closed for days or longer. Oil companies had shut down 97.5 percent of production in the Gulf of Mexico by Friday morning and were battening down refineries and petrochemical plants in an area that accounts for one-fifth of U.S. refining capacity.
Exxon Mobil reported evacuating workers from its Gulf Coast offshore platforms and onshore facilities in the anticipated path of Ike, shutting down daily production of about 36,000 barrels of oil and 270 million cubic feet of gas..
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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 |
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Previous Threads:
Hurricane Ike Live Thread III
Hurricane Ike Live Thread II
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)
Landfall recorded at 2:35 CST.
Now the Fox Weather Gal is saying the eye is 40 miles wide.
Someone please tell the weather chick on FOX how to properly pronounce “GAL - VE - STON”, not “GAVEL - STON”.
” Fox just said the land fall has been made in Galveston “
Weather Channel calling ‘official’ landfall at 2:10am over Galveston....
You can tell because Geraldo stopped hugging his palm tree and instead began to stare pensively (in his black leatherish costume) at the seawall.
60 miles East of Waco, TX - Winds are just now starting to come out of the North at 7 mph. We’re seeing the outer bands of Ike just south of Bryan TX - and the storm is just now making landfall at Galveston!
They allow pets now..I think they realized too many people would not leave if pets were not allowed to go ,too.
about 15 years ago I set out on my bike for about a 90 mile ride. I went along Lake Erie & then to the Cemetery where my dad was buried & had about a 35 miles ride home.
I never had been into TV & didn’t have a clue on weather potential (and no internet yet). It was a glorious summer day of about 75 degrees
when 30 miles from home I decided to take the Emerald Necklace (which is part of the Cleveland metro parks.. a green band of parks circling Cleveland.) It was an area that I had never been thru but had the map blazed in my mind. Stay on road all the way to major street which I could take to my community
at about 6 in afternoon it got pitch black out.. winds picked up.. wild rains began... and continued .. and continued. It was deserted in park & I completely got turned around on the various trails with tree branches falling all over & no cars. No cell phone.
I did not get home until midnight.. was the worst bike ride ever & my first bad storm experience.
I cant help but think of years of past when people like me then had NOT a bit of notice on on coming hurricanes.. and still do in primitive areas of the Caribbean. Just broadsided & no place to evacuate if they did have warning.
Landfall recorded at 2:35 CDT.
Hi My ,are you mad or want info.((((Hugs))))PS I have no info,
Okie dokie.
It's all about you.
Tx
previously posted image had a time of 0345Z, which is puzzling as this image has a time of 0645, and the postings are only minutes apart... possibly a typo by someone at NOAA?
Yeah... thats what I said.
Figures...LOL
Let FOX and TWC fight it out ;-)
I guess so...
I’ve been using my WeatherBug travel forecast option to track wind speed. I just typed in 77550 (for the zip of Seawall Boulevard in Galveston) and you can keep clicking through a range of local weather stations between there and Houston. Wind gusts are up around 90 mph at several of these locations, most notably the observatory at the University of Houston. Wow, this is awful...thankfully, our area’s locations are reporting only 38 mph at the moment.
1.3 million w.out power
He is a good guy.((((Hugs))))
lol I noticed that earlier!! I'm very sorry that happened. she is dreadful.
If it helps, I think I heard her call Jerry "Geraldo" Rivera her "good friend."
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