IKE... Oh noes

[texasmom]

Hope you guys down there stay safe. I'm a little bit worried about my mother-in-law. I sure wish she'd come up here for the weekend.

[Hangtime]

Text of the advisory:

ALL NEIGHBORHOODS...AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES...
WILL BE INUNDATED DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK STORM TIDE. PERSONS
NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY
HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE
CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD
AND DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE.
VEHICLES LEFT BEHIND WILL LIKELY BE SWEPT AWAY. NUMEROUS ROADS
WILL BE SWAMPED...SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE
FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF. WATER LEVELS MAY
EXCEED 9 FEET FOR MORE THAN A MILE INLAND. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN
MULTI-STORY FACILITIES RISK BEING CUTOFF. CONDITIONS WILL BE
WORSENED BY BATTERING WAVES. SUCH WAVES WILL EXACERBATE PROPERTY
DAMAGE...WITH MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF HOMES...INCLUDING THOSE OF
BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO
REPAIR.

STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WILL INCLUDE THE MAJORITY OF MOBILE HOMES BEING
SEVERELY DAMAGED. THOSE THAT SURVIVE WILL BE UNINHABITABLE UNTIL
REPAIRED. HOUSES OF POOR TO AVERAGE CONSTRUCTION WILL HAVE MAJOR
DAMAGE...INCLUDING PARTIAL WALL COLLAPSE AND ROOFS BEING LIFTED
OFF. MANY WILL BE UNINHABITABLE. WELL CONSTRUCTED HOUSES WILL
INCUR MINOR DAMAGE TO SHINGLES...SIDING...GUTTERS.. .AS WELL AS
BLOWN OUT WINDOWS. UP TO ONE QUARTER OF GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL.

PARTIAL ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED AT INDUSTRIAL PARKS...ESPECIALLY
TO THOSE BUILDINGS WITH LIGHT WEIGHT STEEL AND ALUMINUM
COVERINGS. OLDER LOW RISING APARTMENT ROOFS MAY ALSO BE TORN
OFF...AS WELL AS RECEIVING SIDING AND SHINGLE DAMAGE. UP TO ONE
QUARTER OF ALL GLASS IN HIGH RISE OFFICE BUILDINGS WILL BE BLOWN
OUT. AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL CAUSE DAMAGE...INJURY...AND POSSIBLE
FATALITIES.

NATURAL DAMAGE WILL INCLUDE ALL TREES WITH ROTTING BASES BECOMING
UPROOTED OR SNAPPED. NEARLY ALL LARGE BRANCHES WILL SNAP. BETWEEN
ONE QUARTER AND ONE HALF OF HEALTHY SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED TREES
WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED...MOST COMMON WHERE THE GROUND IS
SATURATED. UP TO THREE QUARTERS OF NEWLY PLANTED GROUND CROPS
WILL BE DAMAGED.

COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF UP TO 20 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE
LEVELS...ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE
EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE CENTER OF IKE MAKES
LANDFALL...EXTENDING A GREATER THAN USUAL DISTANCE FROM THE CENTER
DUE TO THE LARGE SIZE OF THE CYCLONE.  SURGE FLOODING OF UP
TO 25 FEET COULD OCCUR AT THE HEADS OF BAYS.  COASTAL STORM SURGE
FLOODING OF 6 TO 8 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS...ALONG WITH LARGE
AND DANGEROUS WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED WITHIN THE TROPICAL STORM
WARNING AREA ALONG THE NORTHERN GULF COAST

[RATTFINK]

LMAO SunBatt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mom, I-45 is packed.  

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Well, I did my shop'n at Lowes & Sam's Club & I think I'm ready  

I taped my windows and stocked the pantry and fridge.

[RATTFINK]

 

[SunBat]

Well, I did my shop'n at Lowes & Sam's Club & I think I'm ready  

I taped my windows and stocked the pantry and fridge.

I didn't buy much.  This may actually be a chance to eat all of the stuff that we have packed in the pantry that we never eat.  I have always ranted that we have a year's worth of food and that there is no need to buy more.  'Bout to find out if I was right.  I'm prolly not.  She usually is.  Nuff said, here she comes, she knows I'm typing this.....

[RATTFINK]

She is a German woman...

[SunBat]

She is a German woman...

Yep, and she totes a rollin' pin....

[Jackal1]

I was talking to a guy at the bik..............errrrrr motorcycle riders social club yesterday who pretty well summed up the forecasts for
what Ike is going to do, what it`s actual track will be, wind speeds, etc.
I casually asked....."What ya think the hurricane is going to do?"
His reply-----> "It`s all depends on what channel you watch. 

[Kaw1000]

Its sad to see people making fun of this tragedy that is ready to happen..yea go watch
football and bbq..mean while people are going to lose everything they have.
Texas has 35% of oil refineries in the U.S.. Billions of tax dollars will be needed to
rebuild.
 
 Prices of fuel will go way up. thousands of people will be displaced. But at least
you all can get the rain you need and have a few days off to bbq and watch football.

Sad

[RATTFINK]

Well, maybe some would like to make light of it, to better cope with what’s to come.  We/Most of us are adults and we know what fate awaits most & we do feel for them.

To pop off and assume that we have no morals is kind of atypical.

Most of us in this thread (Texan’s) are going to get hit HARD.


And show us where you get your stats. from.

[Jackal1]

When you have lemons, you make lemonade.

[WilldCrd]

Im from Carrollton Tx. Its by Dallas The Hurri wont get to us but all the tornadoes will and my wife and kids will be at home alone taking all that bad weather on by there self's im in Troy Pa. sucks I wish I could be there to hold my little girls wile it happens. Work wont let me go home to be with them.

Hey red i live in Rowlett. I'm sure your family will be ok. shoot me a pm if ya need anything ill give ya my cell # if you want. I know what it's like to be 1500 or more miles away when bad weather hits  home.  Try not to worry to much you got friends down here that will help out if ya need 

[SunBat]

When you have lemons, you make lemonade.

Exactly.  The eye of the storm is supposed to come directly over Rattfink and I but we've done what we need to do to get ready.  Now it is just a waiting game. 

We know what it's like to go through it so I don't really think we are being insensitive; however, I suppose if you are ultra-sensitive then anything bothers you. 

I am hearing about a cargo ship that lost its engines as it was leaving Port Arthur to get out of the path of the storm and the Coast Guard is not able to go get the people off the ship.  Those people need our prayers. 

[Nwbie]

When you have lemons, you make lemonade.

So... is that what they are drinking at the bi....eeerrr  motorcycle riders club during the storm?



Be safe guys and good luck

Newbs

[RATTFINK]

Exactly.  The eye of the storm is supposed to come directly over Rattfink and I but we've done what we need to do to get ready.  Now it is just a waiting game. 

We know what it's like to go through it so I don't really think we are being insensitive; however, I suppose if you are ultra-sensitive then anything bothers you. 

I am hearing about a cargo ship that lost its engines as it was leaving Port Arthur to get out of the path of the storm and the Coast Guard is not able to go get the people off the ship.  Those people need our prayers. 

Exactly!!

Sun, you know those people that talk to hear themselves talk?  Well some people (Kawasaki 1000) write to see themselves write... 

Sad



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