Buba Big Guns
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Has Ike reached Canada already? It's raining quite a bit now here in Ottawa.
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Hurricane Ike: People Not Evacuating Face "Certain Death"
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Anyone who lives in Galveston that says that is a moron.Phoenix said:
Most people in Houston aren't saying that, though. The fact of the matter is most Gulf Coast buildings and houses (yes, even in Galveston - they learned their lesson 100 years ago) can withstand a Cat 2 or 3 hurricane. Example - most of the damage in NO from Katrina wasn't from Katrina, it was from the flooding. People who live in Houston should be aware that every so often they will get a storm that knocks out power for a week and creates a mild amount of chaos.
It's a testament to the goodwill, positive attitude, and sheer tenacity inherent in the Texan spirit and those influenced by it that we've gotten the cleanup effort organized this well in such a short period of time. It's "a Texas thing" -- we've done this before, and we'll do it again for the next storm.
Posting this from the library in downtown Dayton. Most of the suburbs are out of power, but downtown seems to be okay.joesmokey said:
I'll have to see if I can get a picture posted when the power gets back up at home, but one of our neighbors down the street had a huge pine tree that snapped and fell over their driveway and into their house. Pretty nasty stuff. Worst wind damage I've ever seen around here.
Beer Monkey
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I'm in Cincinnati. Lost power at 3pm yesterday. Will be lucky to have power by this weekend. The ice storm a couple of years ago left me without electricity for 70 hours, the damage is much worse this time.
West U area. Finally got power on.
So I was hammered at a friend's the night of the storm and tried to walk home around 5ish. Took me an hour to walk a block and a half, dodging shingles and the random debris I could see. You don't really appreciate nature til you stumble home through a Cat. 2.
It was the first time I'd thanked God non-sarcastically. Felt like a champ when I got home.
So I was hammered at a friend's the night of the storm and tried to walk home around 5ish. Took me an hour to walk a block and a half, dodging shingles and the random debris I could see. You don't really appreciate nature til you stumble home through a Cat. 2.
It was the first time I'd thanked God non-sarcastically. Felt like a champ when I got home.
Lhadatt said:
Because Mississippi received the much more intense easterly winds, New Orleans got the strongest sea surge. But have you seen what Katrina did to the Mississippi coast?
Don't use New Orleans as the only example of the scurge of that hurricane.
The fact that New Orleans is a bowl might even help us avoid some of the major wind damage, but I'm just going off my own reasoning here - I've read nothing that woud indicate this.
metalmania4evr
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Yeah man I remember that ice storm, it was fucking crazy. Dead forests looked like they were made of glass there was so much ice. But yeah, agreed, this is pretty bad. I live in a huge house with four other college dudes, and we have enough room to put some friends up for a few days until this gets resolved. I started calling people yesterday.beermonkey@tehbias said:
Even God uses Ike to smash noobs.Roelatie said:
Here is a link to the power outage story. It is pretty bad.
Buttonbasher
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Seriously. I'm in Grove City, and the wind was killing trees left and right. My neighbors broke in half (on to his house too!)joesmokey said:
Post-storm satellite images:
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/ike/
For example: http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/ike/geo-C25883818.jpg
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/ike/
For example: http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/ike/geo-C25883818.jpg
Jamesfrom818
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Ike knocked out one of my company's Chicago offices. Now my office has to shoulder most of their work.
GodfatherX
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KY GAF....Louisville has 273,000 homes without power due to the high winds that came through as part of Ike
im in the south end, i know that Portland, Newburg, Upper and Lower Highlands, Jtown, Aburndale, Fairdale, Fern Creek, PRP, Riverport, Okolona all without power
last i heard my specific neighborhood could take up to 9 days to get fixed
im in the south end, i know that Portland, Newburg, Upper and Lower Highlands, Jtown, Aburndale, Fairdale, Fern Creek, PRP, Riverport, Okolona all without power
last i heard my specific neighborhood could take up to 9 days to get fixed
I'm in Dayton, and the wind knocked out our power around two or three yesterday, and supposedly it might not come back for 3-5 days, worst case scenario. All of our academic buildings have generators though, so we still get to go to class. Yay. I wish I could cook something. All the restaurants with power around here are packed.
RiskyChris
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So the levees broke in my hometown.
In NW Indiana.
In NW Indiana.
Future Trunks
lemme tell you something son, this guy is SO FARKING HUGE HE'LL FLEX AND DESTROY THE SUN no shit
Miguel said:
Me three.
My fence is destroyed, but little else damage done. Pretty thankful.
Now get on the ball CenterPoint! Gimme mah watts!!!!!!!
Note, you're doing a good job so far CP.
I took some pictures of what Ike did to my neighborhood.
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=158842&l=adc28&id=804530583
http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=158842&l=adc28&id=804530583
Phoenix
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MrJames said:
Reminds me of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina.
dionysus said:
Ours is one of the few just outside the loop that presently has power and our parking lot is PACKED. I have three people crashing here myself.
I walked to my car earlier just thinking I'd drive around abit to get out of the apartment, saw people circling for spots and said fuck it.
Phoenix said:
Yeah it's crazy...makes you wonder how many people might have been washed out to sea. Only 4 official deaths in Galveston so far cause there were bodies, but you gotta think it might take a while to figure out if anyone was washed out to sea. Surely someone that close to the beach would at least evacuate to higher ground right?
Also it never ceases to amaze me how many people rely on past experience from hurricanes that hit in completely different places, etc. to guide their decisions. Every day I see another interview to the effect, "well I've stayed through every hurricane in the last 50 years and I didn't expect it to be this bad...I wish I had evacuated".
News flash...hurricanes don't care what other hurricanes in the past have done.
Just got to school at University of Houston, been without power since I last posted on GAF on 9/12.
Let me tell you something, going through Ike was especially at night was one of the scariest things I've faced. The entire 2nd story of my house was shaking, things were flying off of roofs trees were snapping, there is a powerline a few streets away from me that snapped in half.
:/
Grocery store here are packed. My uncle went out yesterday and said it was a 30 minute wait for ONE bag of ice at the Randalls on 290 & Barker Cypress.
Haven't had any connection with the outside world since power is still out at my home and it's very hard to use the cell phone because the networks are overloaded. It's pretty bad.
I haven't had a chance to look but were there a lot of deaths in Galveston?
Let me tell you something, going through Ike was especially at night was one of the scariest things I've faced. The entire 2nd story of my house was shaking, things were flying off of roofs trees were snapping, there is a powerline a few streets away from me that snapped in half.
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Grocery store here are packed. My uncle went out yesterday and said it was a 30 minute wait for ONE bag of ice at the Randalls on 290 & Barker Cypress.
Haven't had any connection with the outside world since power is still out at my home and it's very hard to use the cell phone because the networks are overloaded. It's pretty bad.
I haven't had a chance to look but were there a lot of deaths in Galveston?
Beer Monkey
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DustinC said:
Heh, I drove past the trucks too. I live in Mt. Carmel but work up in Monroe.
We had power for 20 min this morning and then we heard transformers popping. And I actually saw the trucks leaving the street about 1 min beforehand. Power is still out.
beermonkey@tehbias said:Heh, I drove past the trucks too. I live in Mt. Carmel but work up in Monroe.
We had power for 20 min this morning and then we heard transformers popping. And I actually saw the trucks leaving the street about 1 min beforehand. Power is still out.
I've been watching the numbers of on Duke's site showing how many people are without in the area. This morning Clermont was at 52k, right now they're at 64k. >_<
Smokey said:
At this point going to school is, tragically enough, just something to do.
We're lucky in that we've got power, and the Internet connection through my phone has steadily improved, but no cable, no point in going out unless you want to wait in some insane lines. I've got half a tank of gas in my car that I don't want to waste unless I absolutely have to considering all the gouging going on. About the most entertaining thing to do in the last few days is sleep.
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