Hurricane Ike Live Thread IV

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

[soycd]

Related, but not as bad as the news of destruction in Texas...
reg unleaded is up from 3.65 to 4.15 overnight here in WV.

Bubbling crude indeed.

[greyfoxx39]

placemark

[Gondring]

What software?

[jeffers]

NautiNurse wrote:
LOL—Spamming the thread under the influence doesn’t live up to its billing either. SWI...spamming while
intoxicated. There ought to be a law.

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That’s why I didn’t say anything last night, I was having vanilla ice cream, submerged in cranberry juice, sugar buzz echelons above reality, and kept my silence to avoid PWI fallout.

Loose lips sink ships.

[wazoo1031]

Is this what it looked like after Alicia? I remember you and my friends saying that it looked like a giant had walked through Downtown with a slingshot!!!

[NautiNurse]

Three people decided to weather the storm on a pier (? Galveston). The pier fell apart, yet somehow these three people survived. They called for help, and a FEMA chopper plucked them from the remnants of the pier this morning. They said they had done the same during Hurricane Rita.

Please tell me these people will receive a bill for the air rescue due to their stunt.

[Gondring]

Was the other one the 10-year-old killed when his dad cut down the tree to avoid it falling?

[AlaninSA]

Is there anything at all about what the condition of the Boardwalk is?

Any condition of the piers in Galveston? That hotel?

The Flagship Hotel is heavily damaged, but standing. The ramp leading to it collapsed. The Balinese Room is gone. It's no longer there...and neither is are the businesses near it - including a store and a restaurant.

[Gondring]

We can hope.

..in vain, I’m sure.

You and I and those brave rescuers have to bear the burden.

[Gondring]

Insurance subsidized by the taxpayers.

Ridiculous.

[NautiNurse]

There was a report yesterday afternoon of a boy in Galveston hit by a tree his father was cutting down. There was an uncomfirmed report of a man with a camera on a jetty who was washed into the GOM past night.

Otherwise, it is still too early for casualty stats. That will take days.

[jeffers]

Watch for damage reports from the west side of the Bay, from Texas City to Seabrook. Of all the populated areas, the wind and surge coincidence seemed to focus there at landfall.

[Allegra]

Is this what it looked like after Alicia? I remember you and my friends saying that it looked like a giant had walked through Downtown with a slingshot!!!

Alicia banged Houston and Galveston up pretty badly. From everything I've heard and read, I believe Ike was even worse.

[CindyDawg]

Well since the media is spending a lot of time talking about downed trees and power out I'm hoping (and praying) fatalities will be very low or non at all.

Last night the media was predicting towns would be wiped off the map. I'm not playing down the damage though. It looks severe but Galveston will rebuild.

[Gondring]

Too dramatic in his delivery....quite distracting.

Did he drive through a downed utility wire waving in the wind?!

Thanks for the link!

[jeffers]

Good deal.

[jeffers]

Good deal.

[Arrowhead1952]

Southbound I-45 lanes appear destroyed

Interstate 45 southbound lanes from Houston appears completely destroyed leading into Galveston. 12:01 PM

Southbound I-45 lanes appear destroyed

Men walk on a flooded I-10 in downtown Houston after Ike on Saturiday Sept. 13, 2008.

[lainie]

News 8 Austin (Time Warner Cable channel) reports many windows blown out of high rises in downtown Houston area. Also reports storm surge went over the banks of White Oak (?) Bayou north of downtown flooding that area.

I saw pictures on KHOU. Two high rises they showed have more blown-out windows than intact ones. There is glass everywhere. There are office desks, computers, etc. on the streets. They showed a couple of restaurants with blown-out windows, also.