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The Hurricane Thread
Topic Started: Aug 28 2005, 12:16 AM (917 Views)
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Sep 2 2005, 04:31 PM
More Than 3 Dozen Countries Pledge Assistance - LGF Blog entry; news item at top, followed by various people's comments below. Some of the comments are funny or right- on- the- money.

I don't know. Some of the comments on there are really sick, including declining help and aid from other countries. There's also a lot of bickering and arguing going back and forth and very few genuine statements including these:

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I am glad that many nations are offering their assistance, regardless of the amount. I work in the fundraising business. We would never tell individual donors that their contribution is too small. There is no reason not to apply that principal to foreign goverments.


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Be gracious, say "thank you." There is a sense of caring in every helping hand. Bring out the best in humanity, celebrate it, honor it.
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Sep 2 2005, 03:56 PM
I don't know.  Some of the comments on there are really sick, including declining help and aid from other countries.  There's also a lot of bickering and arguing going back and forth and very few genuine statements including these:
I didn't see any "real sick" comments in that blog, that I remember.

One guy was angry that Japan is not donating more and said "to hell with Japan," but he was shouted down by others who told him to put a cork in it. His was about the rudest post.

There is a wide range of opinion on that blog on some topics.

Most posters there are Bush supporters, they are conservatives, and yet they sometimes disagree with one another on some issues - which shows that Bush supporters / conservatives do not think in lock-step at every turn.

Every so often a liberal shows up to spout the liberal view of things. Sometimes trolls show up, doing a caricature of what they *think* a conservative is (they usually give themselves away).

Whether you like some individual postings or not, or agree with all of them or not...

The people there will make you think, and they're usually very entertaining.

At that blog, there's a wide age range represented, people from all walks of life, there are doctors there, retired military, computer geeks, soccer moms, school teachers, there are Canadians, Americans, Israelis, the occasional Australian, Britain, etc. etc.

It would be nice if more conservatives posted here at this board.
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Well, I think Canada is doing her part, (or trying to anyway). I’ve been watching this on CNN and MSNBC, this is so horrific. You Americans are great at pulling together, hopefully once your Armed Forces arrive and stabilize the area, things will start coming together. I've included some links I've come across:

Canadian warships to sail to Louisiana

Canadian Red Cross sending volunteers to Houston

Four Canadian ships to be sent
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their mayor is a joke. He's standing next to the able-bodied whiners and howlers who blame the government- whining and howling about George Bush. WHAT KIND OF CRAP IS THAT?!?!! What'd HE do with the money under his control? Uh.....lemme guess.....
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I read about fifty posts on the following site and completely broke down:

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf..._09.html#076443

I'm just so heartbroken right now and frustrated with the entire situation. Fortunately, a good friend of mine from NOLA is safe in Florida staying with his mother but I can't even begin to image what he's going through. He has lost his house...it's submerged under 16 feet of water and the ceilings are 18 feet high.
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Link of interest:
Posted Image Chrenkoff - Quotes About the Hurricane, Part 2
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their mayor is a joke. He's standing next to the able-bodied whiners and howlers who blame the government- whining and howling about George Bush. WHAT KIND OF CRAP IS THAT?!?!! What'd HE do with the money under his control? Uh.....lemme guess.....
"Blame Bush" or "Rip on Bush" is a knee jerk reaction with many, many Democrats and far left / liberal folks. I ran into one in person the other day when I took my sister out around town, as a matter of fact - here's what happened:

Some days, I take my sister out in my car, and on others, we take my sister's car, which has Louisiana tags and plates, so people know she's from LA, right? So this lady sees my sister is from LA, approaches us in the parking lot, and goes into her "Blame Bush" mantra. I just smiled politely and didn't say much of anything about that, but I thanked her for her support of my sister.

The "Blame Bush all the time for everthing and anything" reaction does wear extremely thin after a few years. As much as I hated Bill Clinton (oooh I hated him), I did not automatically blame the guy for every single thing that came down the pike.

Bush did say the other day that he himself is not happy with the federal government's reaction to Katrina's aftermath. I think that must take some of the wind out of the sails of the "Blame Bush" crowd. :)

Anyway, at first, I thought their mayor (Nagin) was in Baton Rouge, but the paper today said he's in NOLA, staying in a hotel. I must have been thinking of some other politician of theirs the other day.

Anyhow - I hate to be a broken record, but I don't understand why people are picking on the NATIONAL government, when in a disaster / emergency, it's up to the local (city) govenment and then the STATE government to deal with a crisis.

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I'm just so heartbroken right now and frustrated with the entire situation.  ... a good friend of mine from NOLA...  He has lost his house...it's submerged under 16 feet of water and the ceilings are 18 feet high.
I know, it's hard to watch.

My sister's boy friend - one of his brothers lost his home, the whole thing is submerged under water. My sister hasn't found out yet if her home is okay or not.

I've gotten most upset seeing the senior citizens and babies in this news coverage. What really gets me are the old people who have died by the NOLA city streets and just get a blanket tossed over their dead bodies.

My sister, who is from NOLA, is upset over some of the black politicians/ celebrities who have been trotting out the race card in the past few days.

My sister is white, but some of her best friends are black, and she's worried that some of them weren't able to make it out.

My sister wants to ring Jesse Jackson's neck, and the guys like him, saying that the fed. govt. (and other people) "doesn't care" because it's mainly black folks being affected.

My sister heard some other black guy say (I forget who, some celebrity, I think - Kayne West, a rapper) that the media is referring to white people who are taking food as "people who are taking food" but the black people who are doing so are being called "Looters."

Ah, here's the quote (and I don't see how comments like this help the situation, they don't seem to be productive):
  • [Sept 3, 2005. Intro: Kanye West's Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC

    NBC's levee broke and Kanye West flooded through with a tear about the federal response in New Orleans during the network's live concert fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina last night.]

    [West:] I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, "They're looting." You see a white family, it says, "They're looking for food."

    And, you know, it's been five days [waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black. And even for me to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away from the TV because it's too hard to watch.

    I've even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right now to see what is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and those are my people down there.

    So anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help -- with the way America is set up to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off, as slow as possible. I mean, the Red Cross is doing everything they can.

    We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way -- and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us! [Source: Washington Post]
That hacks me off too, because nobody I know has said that.
Everybody I've seen on blogs and boards and in the media all agree that if people (regardless of skin color) need to 'steal' food from Wal-Marts or where ever, that is fine.

I've seen footage of black people taking food from a NOLA grocery store, and I didn't think they were "looters" for it - I just thought, 'it's an emergency, they need it, so okay.' And I'm a white girl. So I've no idea what the Jesse Jacksons and Nagins are talking about.

The only people who have been termed "looters" are the idiots (regardless of skin color) who are taking T.V. sets and DVD players. Unless those people are taking merchandise like that to pawn to get money for food, they shouldn't be doing it.

I'm sure if you were to visit KKK blogs or white supremacist blogs, some of those weenies might be making racist comments, but I don't know of anyone else who is, or who has, about the people in Mississippi and Louisiana taking food /water.

More links:
National Guard brings security, sustenance

Katrina evacuee dies in bus crash - CNN

Katrina evacuee bus overturns, killing one - MSNBC

Bush tours storm-ravaged regions - Chicago Tribune

Most [Hurricane Katrina] Victims Happy To See Troops

Bush Sending More Troops to Gulf Coast
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Allergic to Hype - a big thanks to Canadians who have pitched in with prayers and donations. A big thanks to everyone else from around the world who has pitched in as well, it means a lot and is very much appreciated!
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This is a major news story up here (of course) it’s getting a lot of coverage in the Canadian media. Admittedly relations between our two countries haven’t been very good of late, but in the long run it’s kind of like we’re family. And we know up here that if something terrible like this happened to us you’d be there for us in a heart beat. I think it’s important for us who share this continent to look past the politics, (which is sometimes quite difficult) and realize we that our similarities out weigh our differences.

I hope New Orleans can be rebuilt, I’ve always wanted to go there. I’d be absolutely devastated if my city had been destroyed the way New Orleans has been. I hope the people who have had to suffer through this find the strength to get through this terrible ordeal, and rebuild their lives.
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I am sick to death of people blaming the President. It's just utterly ludicrous.

Also, everyone keeps acting as if conservatives and Republicans are unfeeling bastards who don't care about what is going on. Witness this utter BS at ONTD: Sean Hannity is the bad guy because he is conservative

I haven't actually gotten to see the video footage because the crooksandliars.com servers are obviously overloaded (stupid liberal site anyways). The stupid teenyboppers only post things that make conservatives and Republicans look bad, completely ignoring the good that many conservatives are acutally doing. :grr:

It just pisses me off. And it is so hard to see pictures and video footage of this tragedy. I am glad the world has offered to help us out.
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I saw the unbearable pictures of old people dead in the streets, and black women screaming for help because of the rapists and killers rioting through anyone they could get. A policeman got shot in the head, armed thieves were shooting anyone they saw, everywhere is the city. THAT'S why assistance was held up, period.

NO's crime problem has been a festering sore for years, and it took ONE natural disaster for it to explode into a crisis that killed the city.

I saw footage of a Wal-Mart ENTIRELY cleaned out. CLEANED OUT! Every single item of merchandise stolen by a rabid mob of hyenas!- their only thought to loot, when they should have been trying to help, to save their injured and helpless fellow citizens!

How can we ever forget this!
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Sep 4 2005, 10:39 PM
NO's crime problem has been a festering sore for years, and it took ONE natural disaster for it to explode into a crisis that killed the city.

Yes, for quite some time, NOLA had the nation's highest murder rate... I think that was in the 1990s, and if I remember correctly, it dipped down slightly but then went back up a year or two ago.

The last I heard... at least two New Orleans cops were so stressed out that they killed themselves. Many other NOLA cops quit.

U.S. Marines were going to the Gulf Coast, not just National Guard and Coast Guard.

Either cops or military shot and killed five out of 8 armed thugs in New Orleans. I don't recall the details, but I'll link to it.

New Orleans - awash in corpses

Five Marauders Killed In New Orleans, Louisiana - New York Post

Gunfight in New Orleans

US warned of 'ugly' scenes of the dead

Feds are in control of New Orleans, [Homeland Security Secretary] Chertoff says

Cops try to keep order - Cops Shoot Five People, from Chicago Sun Times

States Struggling With Katrina Refugees

Texas to move Katrina refugees to other states


Excerpts, Chicago Sun Times:
  • September 5, 2005
    BY ROBERT TANNER ASSOCIATED PRESS

    Violence boiled over when 14 contractors on their way to help plug the breech in the 17th Street Canal came under fire as they traveled across a bridge under police escort, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers. Police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six, Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said. None of the contractors was injured, authorities said.

    At two of the city's damaged levees, engineers continued making repairs that would allow pumps to begin draining the floodwaters. "The water is receding now. We just have a long ways to go," Mike Rogers, a disaster relief coordinator with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said Sunday.

    Hundreds of thousands of people already have been evacuated, seeking safety in Texas, Tennessee and other states. With more than 230,000 already in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry ordered emergency officials to begin preparations to airlift some of them to other states that have offered help.

    What will happen to the refugees in the long term was not known.

    Amid the tragedy, about two dozen people gathered in the French Quarter for the Decadence Parade, an annual Labor Day gay celebration. Matt Menold, 23, a street musician wearing a sombrero and a guitar slung over his back, said: "It's New Orleans, man. We're going to celebrate."

    In New Orleans' Garden District, a woman's body lay at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Magazine Street-- a business area with antique shops on the edge of blighted housing. The body had been there since at least Wednesday. As days passed, people covered the corpse with blankets or plastic.

    By Sunday, a short wall of bricks had been built around the body, holding down a plastic tarpaulin. On it, someone had spray-painted a cross and the words, "Here lies Vera. God help us."
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This is such a wonderful news story, I don't hardly know what to say:

Iraqi Soldiers Donate to Katrina Victims
  • Iraqi soldiers collected 1,000,000 Iraqi dinars for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

    By Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq TAJI, Iraq, Sept. 9, 2005 — Iraqi soldiers serving at Taji military base collected 1,000,000 Iraqi dinars for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

    Iraqi Col. Abbas Fadhil, Iraqi base commander, presented the money to U.S. Col. Paul D. Linkenhoker, Taji Coalition base commander, at a Sept. 5 staff meeting.

    “We are all brothers,” said Abbas. “When one suffers tragedy, we all suffer their pain.”

    The amount of money is small in American dollars - roughly $680 - but it represents a huge act of compassion from Iraqi soldiers to their American counterparts, said U.S. Army Maj. Michael Goyne.

    “I was overwhelmed by the amount of their generosity,” Goyne said. “I was proud and happy to know Col. Abbas, his officers, NCOs and fellow soldiers. That amount represents a month’s salary for most of those soldiers.”
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Floodwalls' collapse in New Orleans linked to soil failure

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  • Oct 8, 2005

    NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Katrina's storm surges were never high enough to go over the walls of two canals whose failure caused massive flooding in western and central New Orleans, investigators have determined.

    The finding appears to eliminate an early theory about why walls failed along the 17th Street and London Avenue canals: that the concrete and steel walls were topped by floodwaters, which then scoured out the soil in back of the walls, leading to their collapse.

    A team of engineers instead found evidence of a massive movement of the embankment underneath sections of the floodwalls. The water pushed one section of the 17th Street levee back 35 feet.

    Why the soil failed remains "a mystery story" awaiting further investigation, said Raymond Seed, a civil-engineering professor from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Even before Katrina, New Orleans was a depressing place to live (IMO). I'm so glad I moved away from there (although I still return from time to time to visit a family member who still lives there).

If you're a person from there and love it, that's fine. I'm just speaking from my own personal experiences.

New Orleans gripped by depression epidemic
  • June 22, 2006

    NEW Orleans is experiencing what appears to be a near-epidemic of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, one that mental health experts say is of an intensity rarely seen in the US.

    It is contributing to a suicide rate that state and local officials say is close to triple what it was before hurricane Katrina struck, 10 months ago.

    Compounding the challenge, the local mental health system has suffered a near-total collapse, heaping a great deal of the work to be done with emotionally disturbed residents on the police department.
New Orleans police get reinforcements from National Guard
  • Published June 21, 2006

    NEW ORLEANS -- Nine months after they rode to the rescue in the desperate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, National Guard troops carrying M-16s returned to the city Tuesday to reinforce a depleted police force and battle a surge in violence.

    The 100 or so soldiers will patrol the streets in ravaged neighborhoods left deserted by Katrina, freeing police to concentrate on more heavily populated sections.

    .... The troops, dressed in camouflage fatigues, carried M-16 rifles, handguns and belt clips of ammunition as they arrived in a convoy of 75 vehicles. They parked in front of the convention center, drawing waves and thumbs-up from onlookers.

    Up to 200 more Guard members will be sent in, bringing the total in the city to 300. In addition, 60 State Police officers were sent to help keep the peace.

    As the soldiers arrived, New Orleans police were investigating another slaying, that of a 22-year-old man. The killing brought this year's homicide toll to 54. That number is less than the 81 recorded during the first four months of 2005, but New Orleans' population now is less than half what it was before Katrina.
Nagin was re-elected:

Nagin Reelected

The Big Easy Gets What it Deserves

Same article (op/ed) available here

Excerpts:
  • The Peter Principle was on display in New Orleans last week as Mayor Ray Nagin was reelected to another term of incompetence and corruption. And just in time for hurricane season, too.

    Nagin, of course, is the bumbling whiner who couldn’t even commandeer his city’s own school buses to rescue people stranded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina last summer. Instead, many of his constituents drowned as the flood waters covered them and the buses.

    Meanwhile, you will recall, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and the national news media joined Nagin in condemning the federal response to a local disaster.
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GUSTAV

[New Orleans] Mayor orders Gustav evacuation

Gustav threatens those hardest hit by Katrina

Thousands flee as Gustav grows toward Category 5

New Orleans orders mandatory evacuation
  • NEW ORLEANS - Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coast Saturday — even before the official order came for New Orleans residents to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana.

    Mayor Ray Nagin gave the mandatory order late Saturday, but all day residents took to buses, trains, planes and cars — clogging roadways leading away from New Orleans, still reeling three years after Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and killed about 1,600 across the region.

    The evacuation of New Orleans becomes mandatory at 8 a.m. Sunday along the vulnerable west bank of the Mississippi River, and at noon on the east bank. Nagin called Gustav the "mother of all storms" and told residents to "get out of town. This is not the one to play with."

    ....Gustav had already killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean, and if current forecasts hold up, it would make landfall Monday afternoon somewhere between East Texas and western Mississippi.

    Forecasters warned it was too soon to say whether New Orleans would take another direct hit, but residents weren't taking any chances judging by the bumper-to-bumper traffic pouring from the city. Gas stations along interstate highways were running out of fuel, and phone circuits were jammed.

    Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said they were surprised at how quickly Gustav gained strength as it slammed into Cuba's tobacco-growing western tip. It went from a tropical storm to a Category 4 hurricane in about 24 hours, and was likely to become a Category 5 — with sustained winds of 156 mph or more — by Sunday.

    ....Unlike Katrina, when thousands took refuge inside the Superdome, there will be no "last resort" shelter. "You will be on your own," Nagin said.

    About 1,500 National Guard troops were in the region, and soldiers were expected to help augment about 1,400 New Orleans police officers in helping patrol and secure the city.
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HURRICANE IKE

Hurricane Ike looks to be headed to Houston, Texas, and it will be hitting the area I live, too.

My power and electricity will probably be knocked out when this storm hits, so I won't be able to get on the discussion board for days to weeks (plus, I'm moving in the near future and will be without the web anyhow).

Keep tabs on Hurricane Ike at the following Houston based news sites:

Houston KHOU News Site (CBS)

Hurricane Central - Tracking Ike, KHOU

Houston ABC News

Houston Chronicle, Newspaper

Houston KRIV (Fox News)
Google News 'Hurricane Ike'
Hurricane Ike Aims at Houston; Evacuations Called
  • By Brian K. Sullivan

    Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Ike tripled in size in the central Gulf of Mexico on a weekend collision course with the 5.6 million residents of the Houston area. Traffic jammed highways as Texas coastal communities evacuated.

    The system's strongest winds extend as far as 115 miles (185 kilometers) from the eye, up from 35 miles yesterday, the Miami- based National Hurricane Center said today. Ike's wind field is now larger than that of Katrina, the storm that devastated New Orleans in 2005, said Jeff Masters, the director of meteorology at private forecaster Weather Underground Inc.

    ``The total amount of energy is more powerful than Katrina, so we could be seeing a storm surge that could rival Katrina,'' Masters said. The storm is so large ``the location doesn't matter much; it is going to inundate a huge part of the Texas coast.''

    Galveston, parts of southern Houston and areas south of the city and near the Texas coast were under a mandatory evacuation order that started at noon today.

    Ike was a Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of 100 mph, up from 80 mph yesterday, the center said in an advisory at 1 p.m. Houston time. Its central pressure is more like that associated with a Category 3 or 4 storm, Masters said.

    ``It is a massive storm; it is impacting in terms of its scope 40 percent of the Gulf,'' said Michael Chertoff, U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, in a conference call from Washington. ``The most important message I can send is, do not take this storm lightly. This is not a storm to gamble with. It is large and powerful and carries a lot of water with it.''

    The storm is moving west-northwest at 10 mph, with landfall south of Galveston forecast for early on Sept. 13. Because of its size, Ike will be felt along the Texas coast long before its eye makes landfall.

    The center's forecasters said Ike may strengthen to at least a major hurricane with Category 3 intensity, meaning sustained winds of at least 111 mph, before landfall. Other forecasters predict Ike may become a Category 4 storm, the second-strongest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, packing winds from 131 to 155 mph.
Hurricane Ike nears Texas coast, shutting down Houston
  • Hundreds of thousands of people streamed out of Houston and neighboring cities on Thursday as Hurricane Ike continued on a collision course with the central coastline of Texas.

    As forecasters issued increasingly dire predictions for Houston, the state's largest city and fourth largest in the country, local authorities shut down all schools, universities and government buildings — including NASA's Johnson Space Center — and ordered mandatory evacuations for thousands of residents. Hundreds of thousands more were evacuated from several counties along the coast, jamming interstate highways with miles of slow but steadily moving bumper t0 bumper traffic.
What to expect in Houston from Hurricane Ike
  • A Hurricane Warning was issued for Liberty, Chambers, Galveston, Brazoria, Harris, Matagorda and Jackson Counties Thursday morning.

    Paul said Ike’s storm center was only about 10 miles wide, which means the wind circulation is very tight.

    If it stays that way, the worst weather from the storm would be along the narrow path of the hurricane’s center and in areas just to the right of that path.

    .... The good news is, Ike isn’t expected to linger over the Greater Houston area and become a major flooding threat.

    Only areas affected by the storm surge were forecast to be at risk for flooding.

    BRAZORIA COUNTY, MATAGORDA COUNTY, FREEPORT

    In Brazoria County, Freeport will likely get the worst of the storm. That’s because it may be smack in the middle of the east eye wall.

    Brazoria and Matagorda Counties can both expect winds of 120 mph and gusts above that. A storm surge of 15 to 20 feet is possible. There could also be 8 to 12 inches of rain.

    In that type of wind, Paul said mobile homes will be destroyed. Lots of trees and power lines will be downed, and power poles will be snapped in half.

    Paul said even homes that are well-built and on foundations can sustain roof damage in those conditions.

    “If you are in a mobile home and you’re not evacuating, you need to go to a shelter,” Paul said.

    .... GALVESTON ISLAND

    Along the coast of Galveston Island, winds over 120 mph were expected. The storm surge there could be anywhere from 12 to 18 feet.

    “What that means is, Galveston Island is inundated with water,” Paul said.

    He said mobile homes there will also be destroyed, and trees and power lines will be downed.

    .... CHAMBERS COUNTY, HARRIS COUNTY (BY THE BAY), MAINLAND GALVESTON COUNTY, KEMAH, CLEAR LAKE, TEXAS CITY, LA PORTE

    From the north side of Galveston Bay in Chambers County to the Harris County border of the bay, all the way down to the Galveston County side of the bay, there could be a storm surge of 13 to 17 feet.

    “So Kemah, Clear Lake, Texas City, all you guys on the west side of the bay – La Porte, you could see roads inundated,” Paul said.


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Could the weather service possibly be any more jolly and cheery?

Weather service warns of 'certain death' in face of Ike
  • # Life-threatening floods expected in parts of coastal Texas, agency says

    # Hurricane Ike could make landfall near Galveston Island as early as Saturday

    # About 100,000 evacuated from Houston; 4 million more told to stay

    # All of Galveston Island ordered to evacuate; special needs evacuations completed
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    - Residents living in single-family homes in some parts of coastal Texas face "certain death" if they do not heed orders to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Ike's arrival, the National Weather Service said Thursday night.

    The unusually strong wording came in a weather advisory regarding storm surge along the shoreline of Galveston Bay, which could see maximum water levels of 15 to 22 feet, the agency said.

    "All neighborhoods ... and possibly entire coastal communities ... will be inundated during the period of peak storm tide," the advisory said. "Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family one- or two-story homes will face certain death."

    The advisory summoned memories of the language used to describe 2005's Hurricane Katrina, which devastated parts of the U.S. Gulf Coast.

    "Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks ... if not longer," an advisory issued at the time said. "The vast majority of native trees will be snapped or uprooted. Only the heartiest will remain standing."

    The Ike advisory follows comes on the heels of similarly urgent messages earlier Thursday from federal authorities, who warned of a "massive storm" that could affect roughly 40 percent of the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Keep tabs on Hurricane Ike at the following Houston based news sites:

Houston KHOU News Site (CBS)

Hurricane Central - Tracking Ike, KHOU

Houston ABC News

Houston Chronicle, Newspaper

Houston KRIV (Fox News)
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Insurance Companies Brace For Losses From Hurricane Ike

Hurricane Ike could hammer insurers

Ike threatens to devastate Texas coastal towns
  • GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A massive Hurricane Ike sent white waves crashing over a seawall and tossed a disabled 584-foot freighter in rough water as it steamed toward Texas Friday, threatening to devastate coastal towns and batter America's fourth-largest city.

    Ike's eye was forecast to strike somewhere near Galveston late Friday or early Saturday then head inland for Houston, but the sprawling weather system nearly as big as Texas was already buffeting the Gulf Coast and causing flooding in areas still recovering from Labor Day's Hurricane Gustav.

    Because of its ominous size, storm surge and flooding were the greatest threats. In unusually strong language, forecasters even warned of "certain death" for stalwarts who insisted on staying in Galveston; most had complied, along with hundreds of thousands of fellow Texans in counties up and down the coastline.

    ....Daniel Brown, a forecaster at the National Hurricane Center, said Ike was about 600 miles across, roughly the distance between Houston and Panama City, Fla. "It takes up almost the northern Gulf," he said.

    The hurricane center said tropical storm-force winds of at least 39 mph extended across 550 miles, and hurricane-force winds of at least 74 mph stretched for 240 miles. A typical storm has tropical storm-force winds stretching only 300 miles.

    ....About 60 miles inland in Houston, officials said residents should not flock to the roadways en masse, creating the same kind of gridlock that cost lives — and a little political capital — when Hurricane Rita threatened Houston in 2005.

    Some evacuation orders were in effect for low-lying sections of the Houston area, but for the most part, people stayed. Large hospitals in the city moved some patients away from windows, but they did not send them away.

    ....Should Ike strengthen to a Category 3, it would be the first major hurricane to hit a U.S. metropolitan area since Katrina devastated New Orleans three years ago. For Houston — a city filled with gleaming skyscrapers, the nation's biggest refinery and NASA's Johnson Space Center — it would be the first major hurricane since Alicia in August 1983 came ashore on Galveston Island, killing 21 people and causing $2 billion in damage.
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Texas Utilities Prepare For Major Power Outages From Ike
  • Electricity providers along the U.S. Gulf Coast braced for Hurricane Ike Friday, with power plants shut down and utilities preparing for possible large-scale outages.

    Planning is already under way to bring in thousands of utility workers to restore power if Ike ends up snapping lines and downing poles.

    Entergy Corp. (ETR), which serves northern sections of the Texas coastline, is moving equipment to higher ground and preparing for new outages as it still works in Louisiana to restore power after Hurricane Gustav.

    "It is going to be a delicate balancing act over the next couple day," said David Caplan, a spokesman for Entergy.

    CenterPoint Energy Inc. (CNP), which delivers power in the Houston area, warned customers that some could be without electricity for two weeks or more because of the storm.

    Hurricane Ike is expected to make landfall near Galveston, Texas, as a strong Category 2 or weak Category 3 storm at about 1 a.m. CDT on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center. Forecasters are predicting a considerable storm surge from Ike.
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Houston Braces for Huge Tidal Surge as Ike Roars In

The science behind a storm surge

Ike shows his face in Galveston [which is just south of Houston, Texas], Coast Guard already doing rescues

Ike blows gasoline prices higher

Havoc on the Texas coast
  • Hurricane Ike is still hours from landfall and already he has spread havoc up and down the Texas coastline. Coastal communities, including Surfside Beach are already flooded.

    At least one fire has broken out amid flooded beachside homes on Galveston Island (above). Coast Guard rescue crews have risked their own lives to rescue motorists caught in the flood waters as Ike's storm surge pushes inland.

    ...The tidal data from Galveston shows that the rising water - some 7 feet above normal tides - has paused, but not retreated significantly as the cycle passes low tide. When the tide begin to rise again, the coast will feel the full impact of the surge. Forecast still call for a surge as big as 15 to 22 feet in Galveston Bay, and 14 to 17 feet for Galveston Island.

    The weather data from the Pleasure Pier shows gusts to 50 mph. That will get worse. Top sustained winds near Ike's center were still 105 mph, with higher gusts. Houston has been warned to expect winds at higher altitudes to 120 mph - enough to blow out the windows of some Houston skyscrapers.

    Did I mention a foot of rain and tornadoes?
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Hurricane Ike came through the other night.

The electricity was out for a couple of days, but it just came on about ten minutes ago! :clap:

I am so glad that is over with.

Ike wears itself out beating up on Texas

Rescuers pick through Ike's trail of devastation

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