Anyone in the path of Hurricane Ike?

15 years ago

Do we have folks along the path of Hurricane Ike? The weather folks are predicting a Category 4! Thoughts and prayers to anyone in that area.

Cameron

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solana
15 years ago
Last I heard, Ike was headed toward Texas. Kathy's log-in name springs to mind.

My best friend lived in the Turks & Caicos Islands until this summer; I've visited several times. They got hit hard by Ike, 80% damage (whatever that measures), but no loss of life, unlike Haiti. I'm still waiting on word of friends I met through her.

Best wishes to all who have to deal with weather crises.

Ana
midnightsmum (Z4, ON)
15 years ago
Cuba was hammered big time. Only 4 lives reported lost, but they have so little, it doesn't take much to devistate their lives. Gustav wrecked the sugar cane producing fields; Ike went through the tobacco prducing areas. They don't have a lot more than that....

Take care, Kathy - stay dry and safe.

Nancy.
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(sorry, rant approaching) It's tough to think about the fact that Ike will indeed make landfall somewhere on the Gulf coast. Tougher still since it seems to be aimed directly at New Orleans... It doesn't look like it will come anywhere close to Tampa. Which is somewhat unfortunate. Of course a direct hit from this storm in Tampa Bay would probably kill hundreds of people, and disable the entire west-central portion of the state... But we need the rain!!!! aaahhhh!!!! FAY, GUSTAV, and HANNA all passed us without hardly a drop, and instead left us in the hot and dry vacuum of their wakes. It has not substantially rained here in about 3 weeks now. I'll take some outer bands. Tropical storm force winds don't bother me. Even as some of our fellows on the east coast are still underwater, here we are bone dry. Please rain. Ike, got maybe a foot of rain for us?
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There are always idiots like that in these hurricanes. I haven't been watching TOO much local news because it can really get to be too much. But I was listening to a local TV station a couple of hours ago and apparently there has already been some major flooding in Galveston, Channelview, and some other low lying areas near the gulf and Galveston Bay. That was as of 6 this morning. A lot of people who THOUGHT they would ride it out were evacuating this morning. And some people were carrying stuff out of their house into their cars by wading through a couple of feet of water. You have to understand, the last major hurricane to hit Houston was in 1983. That was 25 years ago. And every time one of these storms hits the gulf, we are inundated with predictions of where it might hit for at least a week in advance. And so many times they are wrong - including this time. So, after so many "near misses" and especially after Rita 3 years ago when many evacuated and then it went east, and after Tropical Storm Eduard just about a month ago where many people evacuated, people just get immune. It's not easy to be told to evacuate over and over again and then you'd have been better off staying. It's nobody's fault, because there really is no way of REALLY knowing where it's going to hit that far in advance. But by the time it really does hit, well, it sort of becomes like the boy who cried wolf. Of course there are some who never listen as well. Anyway. It's still pretty quiet here at my house. I don't expect to see much before the wee hours of the morning. Hope Karen and Jim and Brenda check in soon!
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aftermidnight Zone7b B.C. Canada
15 years ago
I think Treelover is in it's path too, Got all my fingers and toes crossed for her too. A
todancewithwolves
15 years ago
Toes and fingers crossed here too. I also heard it's heading for Texas but at a catagory two.

Edna
FlowerLady6
15 years ago
My thoughts and prayers go out to those in Ike's path also. These storms are terrible, we've been through 3. Let's hope and pray that it doesn't become a cat 4.

FlowerLady
DYH
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15 years ago
A friend's daughter did her study abroad in Cuba last spring semester. Most folks were already living in houses made from whatever they can find.

I just looked at the 36 hour forecast and it's for a Category 3, 115 mph winds! Yikes!

Here's part of the discussion on Weather Underground:

The objective guidance near landfall ranges from a category four from the GFDL to category two from the SHIPS model...about the error one can expect from an official forecast one to two days out. The official forecast roughly splits the difference between these guidance models...and anticipates that Ike will be a major hurricane at landfall
midnightsmum (Z4, ON)
15 years ago
I've heard that it changed to a tropical storm at landfall. Southern Ontario is to benefit from the rain tomorrow. Still, a tropical storm can do a lot of damage -W declared a federal state of emergency for Texas, no sure what that means.....
Nancy.
natvtxn
15 years ago
State of Emergency means they gualify for Gov. loans and such. There has been a lot of damage

About 6,000 were brought here by bus.

Here is a link that might be useful: storm

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