Hurricane Ike Live Thread IV

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

[topher]

See POST #638 by LA Woman3.

From a link it states that Galveston Island looks like a Lake with just roofs and tops of trees protruding up...

[MeekOneGOP]

Thar she BLOWS !!!!!

Headin’ our way, sorta. (Dallas/Ft. Worth). It will
pass to our east out in East Texas. Right over my
Uncle’s place in Tyler, and my Dad’s place in Quitman.

Expecting gusts here in the Dallas area to 60 mph,
so they say per our local weather talkin’ heads.

Are you doin’ okie-dokie there, PL ?????

(My aunt called me last night LATE and just a short
while ago. My Dad’s surgery in Quitman went just fine.
I will give him a call myself shortly to see how he is
doing).

Gotta head out to work right now.

Y’all take care and see ya later! :^D

[CarolTX]

Geraldo in/on a tree...LOL! Hope that gets to Youtube very soon. Sorry I missed it.

[penelopesire]

Heard it reported on TXCN.

[McLynnan]

I would be worried too, but it could be a problem with cell phone coverage. If you change your mind FReepmail & let me know and I’ll call or text him for you.

[jeffers]

I expect you’re going to see strong southerly wind for at least three more hours, thengradually tapering off for more hours yet. If Lake Charles has water problems now, it will likely get worse before it gets better.

[penelopesire]

Got the impression it was coming from Galveston, but am not 100% certain.

[tcrlaf]

Fox has it now...

500 Vehicles of “Task Force Ike”

[conservative cat]

Don’t some areas of the country have different formulas of gas for different times of the year to ‘cut’ down on pollution? (really just a joke, and a ‘gimme’ to the enviro wackos)

Yes, Washington does (unless they made us go year round to the "oxygenated" formula.) I am sure other places do, too.

[McLynnan]

Good morning! Everything okay on your side of the road? Pretty quiet here so far but it does have the feel of “the calm before the storm”. This morning I’m painting the inside of a closet from water damage a few weeks ago. The silly roof sprung a leak! Got that fixed and new drywall in the closet just in time for Ike.

[truthluva]

I am trying to get more information about anything in the Lake Charles area. My son goes to school there and was originally going to Layfette but they changed their minds and went a few miles north to Moss Bluff. Please...if your friend emails you again can you ask about that area? We have been trying to contact him on his cell phone this morning but keep getting his voice mail. We spoke to him aroung midnight last night, but have not heard from him since.

We feel that he is okay...we are just looking for information. TIA.

[McLynnan]

We should be hurricane buddies. I have a daughter at UT in Austin and the rest of my family is in the northern Dallas suburbs. I’m near Waco — we could call ourselves the I-35 nervous wrecks.

[topher]

I was DEFINITELY WRONG ... Later pictures on the Weather Channel in the area of Clute, TX shows the Flares.

During the worst part of the Hurricane, the Flare was Horizontal or appeared to be HORIZONTAL, not with the flames going straight up, but sideways...

I guess if a FLARE may be away from anything that might blowup -- or at least it should be...

[jeffers]

Sunnyflorida wrote:
“Winds were gusting to 120 mph, measured, right about where residential construction begins to fail
substantially.”

This is a bizarre statement and completely weird. Some residential construction fails at 40 MPH and
some, mine, survived near 200MPH. It is nutty to generalize like this.

***********

I built them for twenty years, after studying civil long enough to finish my core classes. 30 and 40 pounds per square foot wind loading is a very common building code standard. If you look at one house, anything can happen. If you look at a whole city built to the 40 pounds per foot standard, you can draw conclusions. If it’s good enough for actuarial tables for insurance companies, it’s good enough for me.

Proof’s in the pudding, let’s see what the actual damage surveys give us for ground truth.

[tcrlaf]

“What spot had 1200 x 911 calls”

Houston Metro...
Heard it earlier on KHOU

[TornadoAlley3]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jyimZOKMux_rjX-yozvAPxy8JwnAD935SH480

Lake Charles

[sheikdetailfeather]

Yes! I will ask my friend about it and get back with you!

[MEG33]

I am indeed..
Getting breezy here and looking at the radar ..it looks like the outer bands are giving us a kiss..Wow..This storm is big.
“Tropical Storm Wind Warning is in effect for Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Hamilton, Hill, Limestone, McLennan, Milam, and Navarro counties until 1 am Sunday.

Winds in these locations could be as high as 40-60 miles per hour with higher gusts. “

I am in McClennan County. No rain yet..just sprinkles earlier. but it’s raining near me.
My back is yelling at me..Need to stop freeping and start getting some ice on it.

[topher]

On the other thread earlier in the week, you mentioned concern about the 1000 inmates left on Galveston.

A spokesman explained this as following: they could not comment on where the inmates because of SECURITY REASONS...

This also happened with HURRICANE RITA -- nothing was told anyone about the INMATES until they were actually moved.

So I imagine they were able to move the 1000 inmates somewhere (LIKE HUNTSVILLE via a number of PRISON BUSES)...

[LA Woman3]

Hurricane damage at this Galveston cafe is seen this morning.