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The Hurricane Thread
Topic Started: Aug 28 2005, 12:16 AM (915 Views)
Mihoshi Marie
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I hope you're doing okay. I hate hurricanes, and it's so sad that Ike has come right after Gustav. I remember hurricane season when I lived in Florida. Fortunately there weren't many really bad hurricanes on the scale of Katrina or Andrew when I lived there.
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KHOU (local Houston news station) just did a story about people bringing in baby squirrels left homeless after hurricane Ike. People have been driving the babies to ASPCA spots around town, awwwww.

They showed the babies on TV, and they're very cute.

How very thoughtful of people to take the time to bring the baby squirrels to the ASPCA. :good:

Mihoshi Marie
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I hope you're doing okay.  I hate hurricanes, and it's so sad that Ike has come right after Gustav.  I remember hurricane season when I lived in Florida.  Fortunately there weren't many really bad hurricanes on the scale of Katrina or Andrew when I lived there.

I discussed the impact of the hurricane on me personally in more detail in the 'Private Chat' forum, I think in the thread called "Will be away from board for awhile."

About five minutes after I made these posts to the board last night, our phone service got cut off.

Come to find out, FEMA took over Houston's phone lines until a few hours ago.

I use a dial-up modem to connect to the web, and obviously when FEMA took over our phone lines, I was not able to get on the web.

I'm sorry for the people in Galveston who lost homes and what not due to Hurricane Ike, but I'm sick and tired of the news people discussing ONLY Galveston.

Also, 9 out of 10 times, when they run stories on Ike, they show the toppled boats of Galveston sitting on the highway.

The media are acting like Galveston, Texas was the only area impacted by Hurricane Ike. It was not.

A house in the subdivision next to mine was totally gutted by Hurricane Ike, and I do NOT live in Galveston.

A four year old boy died today in the Houston area due to carbon monoxide poisoning - from a generator.

People have been bringing their generators indoors (because we got rain after Ike went through), despite the warnings on the news that you should not be doing this.

Even though the mayor of Houston was telling people the other day to stay off the interstates around town (we got a very bad rain storm that hit downtown Houston after Ike left, it produced flooding in areas), they did so anyway and had to be rescued.

I used to live in Florida, too. :) Like New Orleans (I used to live in New Orleans) it rains in Florida almost every single afternoon.

Federal emergency aid begins arriving in Houston
  • Federal emergency workers brought the first of 5 million liters of water and 5 million ready-to-eat meals to Houston for victims of Hurricane Ike. Meanwhile returning evacuees found traffic problems from flooding and a citywide curfew.
About this next headline - try telling this to people still without water, power, who had house damage or whose homes were totally ruined by Ike:
Houston inconvenienced, but not devastated

Storm Damage Is Extensive and Millions Lose Power

Ike Robs Houston of Drinking Water, Prompts Curfew

Ike's Bad Blow Was Almost Worse
  • The cleanup continues in Texas and Louisiana today, even as rain and thunderstorms complicate the matter. Hurricane Ike flooded hundreds of miles of coastline, destroyed buildings and knocked out power for millions of people. The good news is the death toll appears to be low -- so far. Thousands are still believed to be stranded among the wreckage in Galveston.

    Galveston was hit hard but appears to have avoided complete devastation, mostly because the storm track shifted slightly to the northeast at the last minute.
Weakened Ike moves on after battering Gulf coast

Photo gallery: Ike's destructive path
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Texas grapples with power outages after Ike

Rescues Continue in Texas; Millions Without Power
  • As of Monday afternoon, the colossal storm had been blamed for at least seven deaths in Texas and 30 deaths over all in eight states across the United States, including six in Louisiana and one in Arkansas, The Associated Press reported.

    Many of the deaths occurred in states far from the Gulf Coast, as Ike, now a tropical depression, cut a path through the Midwest, knocking down trees, flooding streets, and destroying homes.

    Texas power officials said they had made slim progress on Monday in restoring electricity to some of the millions without power. Vast swaths of the Texas coast remained in the dark. The state’s largest power companies indicated that roughly 1.65 million Texans had no electricity as of Monday afternoon, and that more than 3 million homes and businesses in several states across the region were without power.

    At the same time, millions of Texans were facing shortages of food, water and gasoline. FEMA officials said they had supplied millions of bottles of water, hundreds of thousands of cots and blankets, and hundreds of generators.
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There has been some looting going on. I hate looters.

There are long, long lines around here for anything, especially gas.

A typical wait for gas is three hours long, with lines stretching around the block. (Some gas stations don't even have any fuel.)

Police had to be called in to some gas stations today because some people were cutting ahead in line, which was starting fights.

A day or two ago, a shooting happened at a gas station. A cop had to shoot some guy who was acting up.

Most stores are closed, including grocery stores.

My situation isn't very good because I was already low on food because I'm moving in a week or two.

I've got two loaves of bread, a jar of peanut butter, some crackers, a couple of packages of Ramen noodles, and a few cans of Campbell's soup and that's about it.

I thought about phoning Domino's for a pizza, but I'm assuming they're all closed. (A lot of Houston & the surrounding area is still without power.)

It's amazing how an entire city can come to a virtual stand still over a hurricane.

WHAT'S OPEN BLOG: Food & retail

Ike's havoc expands reach

Texas Officials Work to Avert Health Crisis After Ike

Looters think twice as police up patrol, arrest 100
  • Houston police have arrested almost 100 people suspected of looting since Hurricane Ike barreled through the area. Sixty-one were taken into custody from 6 a.m. Saturday to 6 a.m. on Sunday and another 33 during the following 24-hour period.

    "We expect those numbers to continually decrease," said HPD Sgt. John Chomiak. He said additional police patrols are working 12-hour shifts.

    At Sonny Ngo's east Houston convenience store, the S&T Food Mart on Navigation near Wayside, two men on Sunday tried to force their way into his business. "I didn't let them inside," Ngo said. "They weren't from the neighborhood."

    Ngo said a group of regular customers confronted the two men, keeping them there until police arrived. "The good people in the neighborhood supported me," Ngo said. "They backed me up."

    Police Chief Harold Hurtt reported that the first night of citywide curfew resulted in 108 citations and 32 arrests. One group of individuals pulled over during curfew turned out to be driving a stolen vehicle, and had items reported stolen from a house or store in the car, Hurtt said.

    ....The Houston Fire Department, on the other hand, has seen a 400 percent increase in service calls. Most are for medical issues — heart attacks, seizures — as well as calls from people who cannot get transportation to necessary care such as dialysis treatments. But fires have also been a problem as power gets restored to wind-damaged homes.
Odd ball story:

One more little problem on Bolivar Peninsula: Loose tiger
  • GALVESTON -- Texas authorities busy trying to clean up after Hurricane Ike have a new problem on their hands: There's a tiger loose.

    A county official said today that the animal somehow left its enclosure at an exotic pets center in Crystal Beach. Animal experts are coming in to try and catch the tiger.

    Galveston County Judge Jim Yarbrough put it this way: ``Turns out there's a tiger, and I understand he's hungry ... so we're staying away from him.''

    Crystal Beach is on the Bolivar Peninsula. The area is one of the hardest-hit by Ike.

    The news follows reports of a lion holed up in a Baptist church with its owner on Bolivar Peninsula as well as livestock and other animals roaming amid Hurricane Ike's wreckage.
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Amazing Photos from Hurricane Ike
-almost 30 large photos, NOT dial-up friendly.

The local news is still fixated upon Hurricane Ike, and it's gotten very old.

The local CBS channel, as of today, is still doing round the clock coverage of Hurricane Ike relief efforts, storm damage, etc.

A week after Ike, Texas getting back on its feet

Ike expected to inflict job damage

Battered Galveston ready to rebuild after Ike

$6 billion storm? Ike's economic impact felt

Two million still without power after Hurricane Ike

US hurricane death toll reaches 51

On Texas' coast, a scramble for basic needs amid 'chaos'

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Hurricane Norbert claims three lives

Hurricane Norbert weakens as it crosses over Mexico's mainland
  • PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico — Officials from the U.S. National Hurricane Center say Hurricane Norbert has made landfall but is weakening over mainland Mexico.

    The Miami-based center says the Category 1 hurricane's centre made landfall about 35 kilometres southeast of Huatabampo around midnight Sunday with maximum winds near 140 kilometres per hour.

    Since then, the center says the hurricane's maximum winds have decreased to near 120 kilometres per hour and that rapid weakening is likely as the hurricane moves over Mexico's mountainous terrain.

    Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Odile continues to weaken.

    The center says Odile was about 100 kilometres south-southwest of Manzanillo with winds near 65 kilometres per hour early Sunday morning.
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This was cross posted to the Obama thread.

I never understood the "blame Bush" mantra following Katrina, so imagine my delight at seeing these headlines....

Jindal to Obama: We’re tired of waiting for the feds to help with the spill

Oil spill's political consequences rise for Obama

Fed.Not Responding to Oil Spill

Jindal tired of waiting for approval, to build sand booms

[Louisiana] Governor Jindal Meets With Federal Officials, Calls Response Efforts Disjointed

Jindal demands accounting for oil spill
  • U.S. Cabinet officials charged with overseeing the Gulf of Mexico oil spill met with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and other state and local officials today in southern Louisiana, less than 24 hours after Jindal demanded more help from the federal government to protect his state's delicate and complicated coastline.

    Solidarity between the federal government and Louisiana is being tested as heavy crude oil begins to lap upon beaches and damage wetlands.

    With Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano standing by his side, Jindal said during a press conference that "we need to make the federal government accountable."
La. won't wait for federal OK to erect sand berms
  • By MATTHEW BROWN (AP)
    ON BARATARIA BAY, La. — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says the state is not waiting for federal approval to begin building sand barriers to protect the coastline from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

    Jindal's defiant comments Sunday came as oil pushed at least 12 miles into the heart of Louisiana's marshes. Two major pelican rookeries are now awash in crude.
Jindal questions spill response; Coast Guard official takes blame

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Poll: Louisianans think Bush did better on Katrina than Obama’s doing on the oil spill
  • Devastating. Especially since it comes from left-leaning pollster PPP.

    Our new Louisiana poll has a lot of data points to show how unhappy voters in the state are with Barack Obama’s handling of the oil spill but one perhaps sums it up better than anything else- a majority of voters there think George W. Bush did a better job with Katrina than Obama’s done dealing with the spill.

    50% of voters in the state, even including 31% of Democrats, give Bush higher marks on that question compared to 35% who pick Obama.

    Overall only 32% of Louisianans approve of how Obama has handled the spill to 62% who disapprove. 34% of those polled say they approved of how Bush dealt with Katrina to 58% who disapproved.

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Louisiana poll: Majority say Bush handled Katrina better than Obama handled spill

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  • Aug 2010

    Polling on the Spill
    The oil spill in the Gulf may be mostly out of the headlines now but Louisiana voters aren't getting any less mad at Barack Obama about his handling of it. Only 32% give Obama good marks for his actions in the aftermath of the spill, while 61% disapprove.

    Louisianans are feeling more and more that George W. Bush's leadership on Katrina was better than Obama's on the spill. 54% think Bush did the superior job of helping the state through a crisis to 33% who pick Obama. That 21 point margin represents a widening since PPP asked the same question in June and found Bush ahead by a 15 point margin. Bush beats Obama 87-2 on that score with Republicans and 42-30 with independents, while Obama has just a 65-24 advantage with Democrats.
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