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Re: hurricane Ike
« Reply #15 on: September 12, 2008, 10:20:10 AM »
HOW BIG IS IKE???

Look at the map and find the S in Lake Charles. That is about where my house is located, and we are having 16 - 35 MPH winds right now. Our local weather forecast is calling for 40MPH winds with gusts up to 60MPH when Ike hits the coast in Galveston (4PM - 10 PM) over 240 miles away.

In addition to that news, the following is in effect for us right now and the storm in about 220 miles south of us as of 10:20 CST.

10:11 AM CDT Fri-Sep-12
The Weather Service has issued a FLOOD WARNING
Louisiana parishes
ACADIA, CALCASIEU, JEFFERSON DAVIS, LAFAYETTE, ST MARY, VERMILION
HURRICANE WARNING
Louisiana parishes
CAMERON, IBERIA, ST MARY, VERMILION
TORNADO WATCH
Louisiana parishes
ACADIA, ASSUMPTION, AVOYELLES, EVANGELINE, IBERIA, IBERVILLE, LAFAYETTE, POINTE COUPEE, ST LANDRY, ST MARTIN, ST MARY, VERMILION
FLASH FLOOD WATCH
Louisiana parishes
ACADIA, ALLEN, AVOYELLES, BEAUREGARD, CALCASIEU, CAMERON, EVANGELINE, IBERIA, JEFFERSON DAVIS, LAFAYETTE, ST LANDRY, ST MARTIN, ST MARY, VERMILION

I consider us to be in NO DANGER yet we still show up on the weather maps. We are out of school today so we can take in people who need to get out of Texas. I'm headed over to school today to see about more repairs from Gustav. Any one need some firewood -- that was the biggest tree in the world that hit our gym!

I sure hope that all the people in Galveston get out. They are facing a certain death if they choose to stay. My prayers are with all the people on the Texas coast.
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« Reply #16 on: September 12, 2008, 12:44:24 PM »
Stay safe in Lafayette.  Most of my heart is there, evacuating from Calcasieu Parish, my daughter, son-in-law, and 4 grandkids, in addition to one of my sisters.  They are staying with my cousin.  They had hotel reservations in Rustin, but didn't want to go that far from home. 

I've been watching the live cams from Galveston on CNN.com.  It looks so bad there already, and the storm is still hours away.  Looks like we won't have a beach house to worry about anymore.  It's located 12 miles east of Galveston, right off the beach. 
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« Reply #17 on: September 12, 2008, 01:38:38 PM »
Mel, I just came in from lunch, and the traffic has already picked up here.  And so has the wind!!  Schools are releasing early today to try to get the congestion off the roads to make room for the evacuees....
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« Reply #18 on: September 12, 2008, 02:47:00 PM »
They let us go early, too.
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« Reply #19 on: September 12, 2008, 03:00:48 PM »
Hoping all yours are safe Mel....as well as the beach house!!  Keep us posted!
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« Reply #20 on: September 12, 2008, 04:28:54 PM »
north texas still fine. saying we will get 40 mph winds tomorrow. took down hanging baskets and back yard cabana
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« Reply #21 on: September 12, 2008, 04:40:24 PM »
Quote from: mel on September 12, 2008, 12:44:24 PM
Stay safe in Lafayette.  ...


Mel We are fine in Lafayette. The wind will get fun, and the rain a bit hard, but unless there are tornados it will be nothing more than a very hard Louisiana rain storm!

90% of business/restaurants are open as per normal here in Lafayette. Winds here as of 4:30 are at 21 MPH and the hard rain has not hit. We do have a gust now and then but nothing serious yet.

This is a picture of Ike at about 4:30.



The reports coming out of Galveston are scary now. Water is already very high, and there are lots of people who still have not gotten out of town.
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« Reply #22 on: September 12, 2008, 05:35:09 PM »
A lot of Galvestonians ae staying put.  Sounds like an audition for the Darwin Awards.  Anybody who does not realize the danger this storm poses is definitely from the shallow end of the gene pool.  It reminds me of somebody who refuses to leave a burning building.

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« Reply #23 on: September 12, 2008, 06:34:29 PM »
Thanks, Dave.  I had a hard time getting in touch with my daughter a little earlier, but we finally talked, and she said the same thing, that everything is fine there.  Of course, my cousin's house is not kid proof, so little Marlee is running her momma ragged! 

Tami, I'm not worried about the beach house.  If it goes, it goes.  We were thinking of taking the whole thing down, and rebuilding on our front lot, so the storm may do us a favor.  But if the storm takes our's down, it will take a bunch more down, too, and I hate for that to happen to our neighbors. 

It's hard to believe that people wouldn't evacuate from Galveston.  Now they are saying that it is too late, and a lot of people did stay.  Certain death...scarey.
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« Reply #24 on: September 12, 2008, 06:50:04 PM »
Mike and I pray that ALL of you be safe.  We keep you in our prayers.
God bless.
Love,
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« Reply #25 on: September 12, 2008, 07:42:34 PM »
We just heard there are 15 people stranded on a church rooftop in Crystal Beach, where our beach house is located, and 3 people are on the roof of a building across the road.  God be with them, as there will be no rescue efforts made from this point on until the storm passes. 
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« Reply #26 on: September 12, 2008, 08:11:54 PM »
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« Reply #27 on: September 13, 2008, 04:14:27 AM »
Praying for everyone in his path.

I was 15 and in Harris County when Alicia hit. Our subdivision looked like a bomb hit it. It was horrible. No water, power for over 3 weeks.
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« Reply #28 on: September 13, 2008, 08:04:50 AM »
This morning the weather is freaky here. It rained pretty hard almost all night, with the winds blowing pretty hard out of the south. Even with all the rain, my driveway and front lawn (on the north side of my house) are completely dry.

On the other side of the house there is standing water in the back yard (only about an inch deep), and my entire back patio is soaked. That just shows that the rain is literally blowing sideways from south to north.

The clouds are moving faster to the north than I have ever seen them. The areas about 20 miles to the west of us to the Texas line are in a tornado watch.

I understand that right now 3 million homes in the Houston Area are without power. That means about 7 million people according to the weather channel. Water is flooding much of Houston and God knows what it may be like down in Galveston. I understand that they had a text book eye in Galveston where things came to a total calm for a while,

They are reporting 1200 calls to 911 in Southern Texas.
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« Reply #29 on: September 13, 2008, 01:53:26 PM »
One of the downtown Houston skyscrapers is being shown and all the windows on the south side of the building have been knocked out.

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