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Hurricane Ike

what are you doing to prepare for hurricane ike?

  • I'm evacuating

    Votes: 5 19.2%

  • I'm boarding up and I'm gonna ride it out

    Votes: 9 34.6%

  • I'm not doing any thing hoping it will miss

    Votes: 12 46.2%
  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .
#121
We got through it, got most of the leaves and branches taken care of. We deboarded at dawn, then the whole street swept the gutters to aid drainage. Contacted insurance to open a claim. Then we were busy deboarding the neighborhood and setting up the generator, we have the freezer freezing, the fridge is chilling, tv is on- free air only, cable is dead, hence my conspicuous absence in posting. We have water, cooked a hot dinner, and we will shut down the generator after dark to preserve fuel. My whole neighborhood pitched in and helped each other. I ran a line next door for my neighbor to run his fridge and tv.

My wife is likely to be out of work for weeks, if not months, as she works in Galveston..you can get out but nobody gets in until further notice. We still can't account for some of her coworkers, hoping for good news...

We are 10 miles or less from Galveston, but fared better than most- no structural damage, no flooding, everyone is safe.

Eric (La Marque)
 
#122
We made it. It was rough last night. Didn't get to bed until 7:00am.

The devestation on Galveston is nothing compared to what Boliver peninsula is going to look like. Actually I fear it's going to be a sand bar now. The weird thing is they won't show vid's or pics of Boliver. I have a feeling a lot of people perished.
 
#123
Bassic83 said:
We got through it, got most of the leaves and branches taken care of. We deboarded at dawn, then the whole street swept the gutters to aid drainage. Contacted insurance to open a claim. Then we were busy deboarding the neighborhood and setting up the generator, we have the freezer freezing, the fridge is chilling, tv is on- free air only, cable is dead, hence my conspicuous absence in posting. We have water, cooked a hot dinner, and we will shut down the generator after dark to preserve fuel. My whole neighborhood pitched in and helped each other. I ran a line next door for my neighbor to run his fridge and tv.

My wife is likely to be out of work for weeks, if not months, as she works in Galveston..you can get out but nobody gets in until further notice. We still can't account for some of her coworkers, hoping for good news...

We are 10 miles or less from Galveston, but fared better than most- no structural damage, no flooding, everyone is safe.

Eric (La Marque)
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glad you guys are safe. i guess this puts a halt on the trip though. let me know if you need me to send anything.
 
#124
Blues Cat said:
We made it. It was rough last night. Didn't get to bed until 7:00am.

The devestation on Galveston is nothing compared to what Boliver peninsula is going to look like. Actually I fear it's going to be a sand bar now. The weird thing is they won't show vid's or pics of Boliver. I have a feeling a lot of people perished.
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I've been thinking the same thing. We've been watching the news. Oh my God. My husband grew up in The Woodlands/Conroe, and knows the whole area real well.

The videos and pics of Galveston are heartbreaking. I'm afraid to find out what happened to Boliver.

Cherie :(
 
#125
Bolivar peninsula is wiped. Nothing much left. The people of Galveston are being bused off. I-45 south is closed from exit 10 on down. I live off exit 11, they have a pickup point established at the Shell station there, for people to pick up family. The buses out were bound for various cities through Texas, and the people were told they couldn't come back for 2-3 months. Total evacuation will take up to a week, then only essential personnel are allowed. The causeway buckled, they only have one lane useable on the n/b span for traffic both ways. Power is expected to come on within a month. I'm on my Crackberry now, this is the only thing I've had for access to the internet, and it is sporadic at best.
 
#126
I am back- alive and well. I live 40 miles north of Houston near the Woodlands. Most damage is downed trees, blown down signs. Flooding is gone. Further south is devastation, of course.

Most folks without power although nearby town Tomball has power today, so recharging my PC batteries. It may be weeks before we have power. No running water either for folks like me on well water. Scene at gas station in Tomball was crazy when they got fuel. We had full tanks so we avoided that huge line.

Cell phone coverage is spotty. Texting works better.

Damage wise - large live oak tree disintegrated over my house but limited damage to house. New roof for house and garage in order. Chainsawed yesterday and today.

All in all - I count my blessings.

I played an all-acoustic service for a church this morning on my upright since The Woodlands is totally without power. I hope my upright doesn't explode form the humidity.

Cool breeze from north is blowing which is most appreciated since no AC.
 
#127
It was eerie as hell driving home from work on Saturday afternoon, everything seemed dead and abandoned... My apartment complex got hit pretty hard, seems my place was one of the lucky ones. I drove in to see carports collapsed on cars, siding everywhere, bushes and trees in the streets, blown in windows all over the place, and holes in the roofs here and there. And just to make everyone there just a little more tense than we already were, just about every fire alarm in the complex went haywire simultaneously. There are some still screeching even this morning...
 
#131
Hey folks. I'm safe and my house is fine too, aside from our neighbor's tree falling in our yard!

Power is still out (over half of Houston is still without power), however our neighbor the next street over has power and is being kind enough to let us steal an outlet from them.

We got power back for about 4 hours last night, only to lose it again. Curses.

So yes, there's about 100 feet of extensions cords running from his house to ours :D

The weather has been ridiculously nice since the storm, so it hasn't been too miserable as long as we keep the windows open. Hopefully we can get power back in the next 24 hours and everything will be back to normal for my family.
 
#132
Dr. Cheese said:
The remains of Ike were really rough on the St. Louis area. Three people died from either drowning or falling trees. The area got between 3-6 inches of rain and a number of roads were washed out. I had to pump water out of my den Sunday morning.
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Cold Water Creek is about 15 feet behind and 8 feet below my back fence ... on Sunday it was about two feet higher, and 20 feet into my backyard. The only thing that kept water out of our house was the strange bump that runs the width of our backyard. Turns out this bump (which is about two feet above the rest of the yard) was a type of levy that the original home owner put in some 50 years ago, the back side of this bump (closer to the house) acted as a drain point flowing the water into a drain.

If that bump hadnt been there we would have had the creek in our basement.

Aaron
 
#135
Ike was still pretty strong on its way through Ohio believe it or not. I just got done cleaning up all of the large branches, and debris from the yard....the city is to come by and clean up all our debris this week. Three thousand of my little 38k population city are still without power, and likely will be until tomorrow at the earliest.

Crazy........
 
#136
It came through here yesterday, knocked a bunch of trees down, power has been out for over 700,000 people. The power is still out at my house and might be for a few days. I'm at my mom's because she got her electric back last night. Part of my roof blew away in the high winds. I've never felt anything like it.
 
#139
Yesterday we had 2.1 million without power, that was just the Houston area, and just the Centerpoint T&D customers. Add in the TNMP and Entergy customers and the total was more like 3.2 million. First reports I heard at work were 438,000 were restored, I'm expecting to hear good news tonite that more are cut on. There was a frustrating problem with the other T&Ds refusing to help. That might be over, I heard rumor that a Florida utility is sending help, as well as some Mississippi crews coming in.

There was a complete failure of the FEMA relief system (what's new there?) to coordinate with State, County, and local officials to provide PODs (Points Of Distribution) for water, ice, and food. We got a message from Texas City Dept of Emergency Management that there would be three convoys of trucks ready to pass out these desperately needed supplies, and that they would announce the locations of the relief supplies. That info turned out to be false, got a call later from them apologizing for the false alarm, that there was only a partial shipment (one ice truck only) of relief supplies and they were gone before they even had a chance to relay the pickup point! Galveston first responders went from Thursday night to Monday without food or water.

Through all of this weekend, we had a P-3 Orion circling our house, going from Galveston out and around to the bay, then back over Sante Fe/Hitchcock, circling, circling...those planes are hurricane hunters. For two days I watched it doing circles at 2000 ft, burning about 200 gallons of Jet-A per hour. Our tax dollars at work ;)! Nice to know they were on the lookout for more hurricanes that might sneak up and sucker-punch us while we were reeling from Ike!

FEMA has apparently got some supplies enroute, they should be here by tomorrow. The whole problem boils down to the firewall that exists between the different layers of government. They don't talk, they just point fingers while people die. Mega-frustrating. :mad:


If anyone out there has any spare electricity laying around, could you please send it to us? Even a bottle or two of 120v, 60Hz would help...:eyebrow:
 
#140
EagleMoon said:
It came through here yesterday, knocked a bunch of trees down, power has been out for over 700,000 people. The power is still out at my house and might be for a few days. I'm at my mom's because she got her electric back last night. Part of my roof blew away in the high winds. I've never felt anything like it.
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You shoulda been at my house! :D

I heard from a Microsoft rep in Michigan that they had customers and partners up as far as Ohio and Missouri that were without power. Amazing. This was one big storm! They had tropical-storm force winds and torrential rain at my brother's house in Arkansas. What blew my mind was how it stayed so intact even after landfall! All the way up into Arkansas it was holding it's recognizable form...simply amazing.
 

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