| Author | Message | ||
     Hexangler |
This one looks like trouble! I used to live in Houston, and saw some of the most amazing storms there. I hope no one gets killed, but if I were there, I'd get the hell out of town.  There are some incredible satellite photos in this link. http://www.universetoday.com/2008/09/11/satellite-iss-images-of-hurricane-ike/ (Message edited by hexangler on September 11, 2008) | ||
| Greenlantern |
Where exactly is Huston?  (Sorry, I could not resist.) | ||
| M1combat |
Bout eight hunnerd miles east a Preskitt... | ||
| Buellinachinashop |
No wonder oil prices have been at a 3-4 month low, but gas is going up to 4.00 a gallon again. Thanks Ike! | ||
| Hexangler |
Looks like their telling people to hunker-down.  http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jG1m4XT341oCKXP MIZlKffdhP9vwD934RSNO0 | ||
| Glitch |
 WOW! I'm a hoping everyone GTFO of there | ||
| Bluzm2 |
This one could be ugly. They are talking about some HUGE storm surges. They could flood downtown Houston. Yikes! | ||
| Retrittion |
Currently downgraded to a lvl 2 when it hits coast, lvl 1 when it goes over Houston...not good but much better than hitting the coast as a 3. Still a while out so things could change. | ||
| Greenlantern |
Either way,hang tough Texans and take care. And be sure to take off those bigass hats when the wind starts blowing.  Godspeed, Randy | ||
| Oldog |
Galviston is in for trouble, I spent about 2 years in Texas as a child, God Speed! | ||
| Cyclonedon |
Houston, we have a problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Schmity |
my girlfriend used to live in houston until just a few years ago, and she was telling me just how bad the storms there were. she said when she was a kid she woke up and saw water outside up to the windows of her house. please pray for everyone in the gulf coast area | ||
| 86129squids |
I live up here in east TN. A week or so ago, I had a nightmare about seeing water lapping up underneath the windows of my house. I rarely have nightmares- this one gave me the willies! Good luck to all y'uns out there in Tejas... | ||
| Cowboy |
I just spoke to a friend on a big jack up boat in Grand Isle (boat good for 200 MPH wind and has 225 ft. legs he will be riding it out) wind is at 60 MPH now and water is 5 feet above dock now it will get much worse I will post more when he give me next report. | ||
| Honu |
Cowboy, Local TV in Orange was showing the Sabine River starting to flow backwards as the storm surge is pushing inland. Might fill Toledo Bend way up!!! Wind is 35 sustained with 55 MPH gusts coming through here between Beaumont and Port Arthur TX. I will pray for the people in Galveston and the Bolivar penisula. Craig | ||
| Cowboy |
I wonder how a turbine works runing backwards he | ||
| Bcordb3 |
Galveston is in for trouble, I spent about 2 years in Texas as a child, I spent two years there one night! The sea wall area can wear a man out. I couldn't resist it, My thoughts and prayers are with the residence who live in the path of the storm. | ||
| Brinnutz |
Here, if y'all want to watch what's going on down there: http://www.webcamplaza.net/master_frame_fix.html?h ttp://www.webcamplaza.net/cams/hurricaneike.html | ||
| Hootowl |
Well, I survived. No trees in my house, but neighbors aren't so lucky. No power, but at least the weather is holding. It's unseasonably cool, thank God. How did everyone else fare? | ||
| Hexangler |
Ike - related storm deaths state by state Article Tools Sponsored By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: September 17, 2008 Filed at 9:31 a.m. ET Authorities have reported a total of 48 deaths in 10 states as Ike moved from Texas northeastward across the U.S. midsection: Texas -- 17, including at least five in Harris County from carbon monoxide poisoning. Louisiana -- six, including two contractors who were electrocuted. Tennessee -- two, both golfers killed by a falling tree. Arkansas -- one, a man killed by a tree falling on a mobile home. Ohio -- six, including five by falling trees and one person electrocuted while working on a generator. Indiana -- seven, including a father and son killed helping children escape from a ditch. Illinois -- two, including an elderly man found in a flooded backyard. Missouri -- four, including a woman struck by a tree limb and an elderly man suspected of drowning in a flooded yard. Kentucky -- one, a 10-year-old boy struck by a tree limb while mowing a lawn. Pennsylvania -- two: a 46-year-old man struck by tree limb while helping remove a large tree from a house, and a 43-year-old utility worker who was electrocuted when he stepped on a live wire while working to repair power lines. (This version CORRECTS Corrects age, ADDS job description of man electrocuted in Pennsylvania.) | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Power went out on Sunday and I doesn't look like the power will be on until this coming Sunday.... maybe.... Glad I found one of these  |
