Yike! Ike!

[D H]

In another thread I wrote

While Fay and Edouard seemed to vex the forecasters this year, the predictions on Gustav have been very consistent. Fortunately, the lower quality forecasts appear to me to be correlated with weaker storms.

 

Dang. Not this time. The forecast for Ike hasn't been all that great. The projected landfall area has been moving northward all week, starting from south of Corpus Christi. It now looks like Ike will hit Houston 45 hours from now. The areas under mandatory evacuation yesterday might well be in the clear while the area likely to suffer has barely begun evacuating. The evacuations for Galveston County (where I live) as of Sept. 10 were voluntary and were limited to a few very flood prone areas. There were no evacuation notices for Harris County, period. Mandatory notices will come out this morning, but there won't be enough time to evacuate 1 million+ people in front of a Cat 3 / Cat 4 hurricane. This is not good, not good at all.

 

I got most of the wood up yesterday; I have another hour or so to finish. I hope it wasn't all in vain. Wish me luck.

[mrsemmapeel]

The very best of luck to you

[Dudde]

indeed, I had a lot of people calling into my work today (a lot means a whole freakin' lot) who just received/were expecting to receive evacuation warnings and needed to get their businesses backed up in like an hour! That's insanity,

 

the very best to you and everyone else affected friend

[big314mp]

Wish you the best of luck. Take care!

[Phi for All]

You've done this before, I've seen the high water marks on I-10 overpasses. Hell, it's only one percent more humidity than you usually have.

 

Hunker down, son. Good luck and don't take any chances you don't have to take.

[Dudde]

Are you serious! I'm in oklahoma, and the spin-off weather patterns from that hurricane have ME bathing in the street, I can't imagine the humidity this close to a hurricane for those in texas

[D H]

We survived. Lost power around 6 PM last Friday and only regained power around 5 PM today. I can not only sleep through a hurricane, I can sleep through a tornado! However, the dead calm of the eye is another story. I woke up around 4 AM Saturday when the eye went over and went back to bed after seeing the southern eye wall start to hit. That side of the storm was particularly nasty, spinning off a lot of mini-tornados as a side benefit. One of them hit our neighborhood. The resulting mess took days to clean up. No loss of human life, but many trees were not so lucky.

[big314mp]

It's good that no one in your neighborhood was hurt. Hope the clean up goes okay for everyone down there.

[Phi for All]

Glad you made it through with no casualties. Welcome back to the electric age.

[mrsemmapeel]

Glad to hear you came through unscathed!