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Re: Ike Is Headed Our Way
« Reply #25 on: March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM »
Rule #1 for hurricanes:

Wherever Jim Cantore reports from, that's where you don't want to be.  shocked
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Re: Ike Is Headed Our Way
« Reply #26 on: March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM »
There are lots of lower lying areas in Southeast Houston as well as Friendswood, League City, Clear Lake, La Porte and other subburbs East and Southeast of Houston.  Those are the areas in danger.  I used to live in Clear Lake.  The elevation of high ground is probably 15 feet. 

Also, Galveston bay comes inland a good distance so downtown Houston is probably 30 miles form salt water.  The Houston Ship Channel pretty much runs right up close to downtown. 
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Re: Ike Is Headed Our Way
« Reply #27 on: March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM »
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The Houston Ship Channel pretty much runs right up close to downtown. 

The Houston surf crowd will be ecstatic!
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Re: Ike Is Headed Our Way
« Reply #28 on: March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM »
How'd you fare?
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Re: Ike Is Headed Our Way
« Reply #29 on: March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM »
Looks like a surge did not come into Houston, but the downtown is trashed from wind. There's glass all over and office furniture even in the streets. The skycrapers they showed are missing an awful lot of windows, and it looks like the contents of those offices got blown out from one side to the other. Big mess.

If your PC got blown out the window and fell 30 stories to the street, does that count as a crash?
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Re: Ike Is Headed Our Way
« Reply #30 on: March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM »
My step brother lost his moving business.  The bldgs and the trucks are all gone.  The only think left is the roofless main office.
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Re: Ike Is Headed Our Way
« Reply #31 on: March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM »
The damned Weather Channel's getting as bad as the other media when it comes to drama! No wonder people don't heed warnings.

Anygunanywhere, y'all OK?

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Re: Ike Is Headed Our Way
« Reply #32 on: March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM »
DSL just back up.

We are fine and only very minor damage. This is a stout house.

About 03:00 Sat I was seriously questioning my decision to stay.

I heard sounds I do not care to hear again.

Electricity out but the generator is maintaining fans and a few lights. Cold adult beverages.

I need to snag me some free FEMA ice.

Kin folk eating me out of house and home but at least I had help cleaning up debris and help with the "plywood pilates".

Galveston is trashed. Chambers County (I used to live there) is trashed.

14 refineries down.

Skeletor is here to save the day. Maybe he has my ice.

Thanks for all the thought and prayers.

Once things settle I will start a thread on idiots who do not evacuate from mandatory zones, are told they are on their own, need help and call for rescue, then complain because no one did enough to save them.

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Re: Ike Is Headed Our Way
« Reply #33 on: March 03, 2005, 10:18:52 PM »
Kinda rough for us in Central Texas, too. All Saturday morning, I was watching our trees bending near their bases in 60+MPH winds....thought one was going to fall on our bedroom. Fortunately, nothing big fell, and the power stayed on. Never thought I'd ever worry about hurricanes in the middle of the state... shocked

One good thing....all the fire ants in our yard clustered together into one area under my back porch....hit it with 3x dose of ant poison....  grin

Quote from: Manedwolf on September 11, 2008, 09:58:34 AM
Houston goes crazy with the hyperbole...

ENTIRE COASTAL CITIES AND TOWNS WILL BE INUNDATED.  PERMANENT
BREACHES MAY BE CUT OFF. FULL RECOVERY WILL TAKE MONTHS IF NOT
YEARS. WATER LEVELS MAY EXCEED 13 FEET FOR MORE THAN A MILE
INLAND. CONDITIONS WILL BE WORSENED BY BATTERING WAVES. SUCH WAVES
WILL NOT ONLY EXACERBATE PROPERTY DAMAGE BUT WASH OUT SOLID ROAD
AND BRIDGE STRUCTURES. DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION WILL TAKE YEARS
TO REPAIR.

LIFE THREATENING INUNDATION LIKELY!

ALL NEIGHBORHOODS...AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES...
WILL BE INUNDATED DURING HIGH TIDE. PERSONS NOT HEEDING
EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL
FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE CONSTRUCTION
DIRECTLY ON THE COAST WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD AND
DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE. VEHICLES
LEFT BEHIND WILL LIKELY BE SWEPT AWAY. NUMEROUS ROADS WILL BE
SWAMPED...SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE FLOOD PRONE
COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF. WATER LEVELS MAY EXCEED 9 FEET
FOR MORE THAN A MILE INLAND. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN MULTI-STORY
FACILITIES RISK BEING CUTOFF. CONDITIONS WILL BE WORSENED BY
BATTERING WAVES. SUCH WAVES WILL EXACERBATE PROPERTY DAMAGE...WITH
MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF HOMES...INCLUDING THOSE OF BLOCK
CONSTRUCTION. DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO
REPAIR.

http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=hgx&wwa=hurricane%20warning

Can't say the Feds didn't warn people sufficiently this time....  laugh
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