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YAHT (Hurricane) Ike

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Originally posted by: dbk
They just said 40% of population in Galveston is staying put. 🙁
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Galveston had a population of 57k in 2005. Let's assume its 60k in 2008.

That means 24,000 people stayed put.

This isn't going to end well....
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: dbk
They just said 40% of population in Galveston is staying put. 🙁
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Galveston had a population of 57k in 2005. Let's assume its 60k in 2008.

That means 24,000 people stayed put.

This isn't going to end well....
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Nope, expect there to be a couple thousand floating bodies by the time the storm passes.
 
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: dbk
They just said 40% of population in Galveston is staying put. 🙁
Click to expand...
Galveston had a population of 57k in 2005. Let's assume its 60k in 2008.

That means 24,000 people stayed put.

This isn't going to end well....
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Nope, expect there to be a couple thousand floating bodies by the time the storm passes.
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The state should have forced them to evacuate.
 
Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Originally posted by: ghost recon88
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: dbk
They just said 40% of population in Galveston is staying put. 🙁
Click to expand...
Galveston had a population of 57k in 2005. Let's assume its 60k in 2008.

That means 24,000 people stayed put.

This isn't going to end well....
Click to expand...

Nope, expect there to be a couple thousand floating bodies by the time the storm passes.
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The state should have forced them to evacuate.
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Grabbed them by the ears eh? 😉

I agree with the sentiment.. If only it worked like that. The sad thing is, the government can't force the people to evacuate, but the people sure as hell expect the government to be there to help when shit goes awry for them.
 
streetlights all just went out



Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
LMAO. Just watched some new clips about how some folks are hunkering down and stocking-up on supplies. The Supplies? Several cases of beer.
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i bought 3 6 pakcs and 2 lbs of chicken wings. i can grill them if i don't have power.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
streetlights all just went out



Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
LMAO. Just watched some new clips about how some folks are hunkering down and stocking-up on supplies. The Supplies? Several cases of beer.
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i bought 3 6 pakcs and 2 lbs of chicken wings. i can grill them if i don't have power.
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😀

Wait..

You aren't going to grill indoors, are you? I'm not sure what would be worse, trying to grill outside during a hurricane, or grilling inside. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Eli
😀

Wait..

You aren't going to grill indoors, are you? I'm not sure what would be worse, trying to grill outside during a hurricane, or grilling inside. :laugh:
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hurricane should be mostly through by late tomorrow.



just had a nice little power flicker. one of the UPSes may be too old. it didn't keep my network up.

the streetlights are back on though.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: Eli
😀

Wait..

You aren't going to grill indoors, are you? I'm not sure what would be worse, trying to grill outside during a hurricane, or grilling inside. :laugh:
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hurricane should be mostly through by late tomorrow.



just had a nice little power flicker. one of the UPSes may be too old. it didn't keep my network up.

the streetlights are back on though.
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Very bad idea.
 
had another flicker, still hasn't reset any of the clocks that aren't on UPSes.

kept my network up this time.

though the streetlight went out for a bit again.



i'm way out west so i'm not in much of anything. getting kinda windy, though not much stronger than a good nor'easter.
 
Kind of hard to tell how bad it is. But you could see in one report that water at the Galveston seawall wasnt really any higher than 12 hours ago, which suprised me...
 
Originally posted by: Mardeth
Kind of hard to tell how bad it is. But you could see in one report that water at the Galveston seawall wasnt really any higher than 12 hours ago, which suprised me...
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Hmm....
 
Originally posted by: Mardeth
Kind of hard to tell how bad it is. But you could see in one report that water at the Galveston seawall wasnt really any higher than 12 hours ago, which suprised me...
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Geraldo is on the sea wall and is reporting that the pavment is being washed away. A wave took him out for the second time today. I would like to see a big gust of wind blow of his mustache.
 
Originally posted by: weadjust
Originally posted by: Mardeth
Kind of hard to tell how bad it is. But you could see in one report that water at the Galveston seawall wasnt really any higher than 12 hours ago, which suprised me...
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Geraldo is on the sea wall and is reporting that the pavment is being washed away. A wave took him out for the second time today. I would like to see a big gust of wind blow of his mustache.
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He's still there?

...
 
Galveston will feel the brunt once the eyewall hits (which will coincide with high tide around 3am)...this will be ugly

I am in Sugar Land (20mi SW of Houston, 50mi NE of Galveston)...windy (45mph gusts I'd say) here with rain. Still have power although its flickering.

 
Originally posted by: Mardeth
Kind of hard to tell how bad it is. But you could see in one report that water at the Galveston seawall wasnt really any higher than 12 hours ago, which suprised me...
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for galveston, low tide was at 9:08. high tide will be at 4:38.


water is coming over the seawall and is going down the hill on the other side (galveston slopes up from the bay to the west to the seawall on the eastern side.



535,000 customers without power, out of a total of about 2 million total customers.
 
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