Posted on 09/12/2008 11:29:13 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Thanks for your nice feedback.
Yes. He’s in the Shreveport area.
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080915/NEWS01/809150314/1060
Thousands still without power
FR is back, rotten timing on the downtime.
KHOU flyovers of the West End plus tivo allowed me to see the house. Little or no visible damage. Astounding.
The rest of the West End looks about the same; properties on the ‘front line’ are either gone or now actually in the Gulf. (the beach moved) Otherwise, we did well.
The other side, east/Bolivar, etc did less well.
Thanks for the update!
Thanks...me too. I've heard from or about almost everyone. Still waiting to hear about Xenalyte and a couple of others.
I too thank NN for the thread. There is more good info here than on TV.
I trust the infomration on this thread much more than I do anything the media is telling us. The again, I trust a scorpion more than I do the media.
When I posted to you “worse than Alicia” we were in a conversation about damage to electricity distribution, not ships, deaths, or other effects of the storm.
Supplemental:
The same KHOU flight crew later zoomed way out over the water and showed long lines of tankers awaiting entry into the Port of Houston.
I'm here to find out about what's going on in my hometown, and don't need someone trying to belittle everything I say.
Agreed.... a nutty idea..
The water would have the same density as the water being held back. The wall of waterbags would topple over unless reinforced by something behind it to counter the pressure and any momentum from wave action. Sandbags are still looking pretty good.
Wonderful news!
FNC reporterette said an estimated 100 billion gallons of rain fell over the weekend.
Almost everyone in Houston is still in the dark, but most of the damage was trees and trees hitting houses. I haven’t seen any direct wind/surge damage such as exists down in Galveston. Unfortunately, flooding/mold/etc may be an issue all around, but we Houstonians are used to that.
In general, the main serious area is SE/Pasadena. Everyone gets garbage service today except them, for example. The rest of us are just a bit grumpy. Xena, humble, Mom & co should be fine.
I think her numbers are off. That would be an inch of rain an hour for the weekend for an area about 335 miles square.
That's assuming the bags were completely void of air. Otherwise, they would be floaters.
You know what’s ironic. La Grange and several other nearby counties are still several months without any rain and very dry. Hardly a drop during the entire Hurricane Ike.
A lot of folks were hoping that Ike would at least relieve the central TX drought. I’m disappointed to learn that didn’t happen.
Thanks. Just FYI, The Mom, Eaker, thackney, RikaStrom and eastforker are all accounted for. Xena is probably just cut off from communication due to power outages.
Glad to hear garbage service is up and running in most parts of town again.
While FR was down last night I listened to khou streaming for awhile- they showed (and now have online under videos) aerial views of Crystal Beach, Bolivar Peninsula and a long line of tankers waiting in the Gulf to unload.
The view from above is a shock- comparing the same areas on Google Earth pre-Ike is unbelievable.
A reporter spoke with one of the public officials- not sure if she was PD or FD or what- but she’s from Gilchrist- her house is gone and the reat of Gilchrist is ..wiped out..roughly 20 % of the house in Crystal Beach are still there. It goes on and on- town after town completely devastated.
Interview with an aide worker who’d been on the ground for Katrina- said this is much worse..
Here’s my question- and it’s NOT rhetorical. Geraldo hasn’t been on live for two days- and yesterday while there was coverage of Ike on the cables- it didn’t begin to approach the coverage of Katrina. Why? (It’s easy to say- because there aren’t enough black people etc.)
I don’t get it.
If anyone wants to hear the interview with the Gilchrist official I mentioned in above post- it’s here:
http://www.khou.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=282744
The title of video is “Crystal Beach, Bolivar, in ruins”
San Leon wasn’t on the dirty side of Ike, but it did get slammed hard. There is talk of 10 ft of water in some houses, some houses knocked off their slabs, some houses completely destroyed. I don’t want to start rumors, but just passing on what I’ve read ... In addition to the previously mentioned 3 missing, there is talk of one man, Bill Devine (appx 81 yo), who refused to leave. The first floor of his home was blown out by the water, and he is now missing. This was reported by his neighbor who went back in to check on the area. Her house was completely destroyed.
There is a very informative forum hosted by KHOU. So tragic to read, but a lot of good info there. Go to http://www.khou.com/forums/ and click on “Other Galveston County” and then “San Leon” for info. It doesn’t sound good.
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