ATL: IKE Discussion

[KWT]

fasterdisaster, yep I heard that as well, or in other words 13 million will feel some effects from Ike, truely huge hurricane!

[pojo]

I just heard 132 counties on the Gulf Coast will feel TS-force or higher winds from Ike!

we are here in Biloxi.

[jinftl]

Now that is what you call a bad wobble for G.Bay

Wobbling back.

This is not a forecast.

[Ed Mahmoud]

KHOU was showing hotel flooding North of I-10 due Greens Bayou backing up.


Lights just dipped then came back, earlier than expected, I didn't think winds were over 30 mph.

[LAwxrgal]

Ike looks like he's stair stepping...according to tolakram's plots.

[pojo]

KHOU is reporting 18 people on roofs in part of Galveston...officials having problems getting to them.

Are people given tickets or fined when officials have to risk their own lives to save people who have been warned in advance?

we were discussing at the squadron today that the authorities should give people tags to wear on their toes.... and ask them for their next of kin numbers.... apparently people forgot about what happened during Katrina....

[KWT]

Tolakram, thanks for putting that map up, looks like its nearly bang on the NHC forecast over a longer time period though its clearly on a wobbling track still...

[dolebot_Broward_NW]

Does anyone have a list of where damage reports will come in to? I have a link to Houston LSRs, but they're so much slower than news reports.

Always a very good source of info is amateur radio, as well as police scanners.

http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Hurricane_Ike

Dunno how long those can stay up.

[jaxfladude]

The WX Babe on TWC just said the Michael Phelps could not master the surf ......paraphrasing....lol

[sallylou666]

Waiting in northwest Houston. Broke out the candy bars. Stay safe everyone.

[RL3AO]

apparently people forgot about what happened during Katrina....

My guess is its mainly a combination of what happened during Rita and the 'its only a category 2' crowd.

[pojo]

Reports are that the 15 trapped at the church have tied themselves together.

I'm not quite sure what the survival logic of that is.

that is brilliant.... that is what we are taught at water survival and what I taught children that I had in swimming lessons.....

[soonertwister]

Keep the weak and tired from drowning?

I think the exact opposite would be far more likely. I don't think those people have the slightest clue what storm surge flooding is like.

[jopatura]

KHOU is reporting 18 people on roofs in part of Galveston...officials having problems getting to them.

Are people given tickets or fined when officials have to risk their own lives to save people who have been warned in advance?

we were discussing at the squadron today that the authorities should give people tags to wear on their toes.... and ask them for their next of kin numbers.... apparently people forgot about what happened during Katrina....

If you stayed in Surfside/Freeport/Quintana, you had to write your SS# on your arm by a permanent permanent marker that the cops all had.

[pojo]

apparently people forgot about what happened during Katrina....

My guess is its mainly a combination of what happened during Rita and the 'its only a category 2' crowd.

its a category 2 with category 5 storm surge & wind field distances......

[lost cause]

Reports are that the 15 trapped at the church have tied themselves together.

I'm not quite sure what the survival logic of that is.

that is brilliant.... that is what we are taught at water survival and what I taught children that I had in swimming lessons.....

That thought is just giving me the willies. . .my mind jumps back to the Catholic Orphans Home in Galveston that was destroyed in the 1900 Storm.

[Annie Oakley]

I just heard 132 counties on the Gulf Coast will feel TS-force or higher winds from Ike!

Texas has 256 counties....not sure about that 132 figure?

[Ed Mahmoud]

KHOU was showing hotel flooding North of I-10 due Greens Bayou backing up.


Lights just dipped then came back, earlier than expected, I didn't think winds were over 30 mph.

Lot windier now. Gusts must be over 40 mph easy, trees are really whipping. Lots of neighbors (unincorporated Harris County, Spring ISD) in their driveways and garages

[RL3AO]

apparently people forgot about what happened during Katrina....

My guess is its mainly a combination of what happened during Rita and the 'its only a category 2' crowd.

its a category 2 with category 5 storm surge & wind field distances......

Too bad the SSHS is only based on wind. It doesn't tell the whole story.

[jopatura]

I just heard 132 counties on the Gulf Coast will feel TS-force or higher winds from Ike!

Texas has 256 counties....not sure about that 132 figure?

Remember all the Louisana counties/parishes and I believe it includes some MS counties as well.