nordique72 wrote: Danny,The Spring Dispatch Center is back open in limited capacity right now- the Palestine, Terminal, and Eureka Subs are all being dispatched out of there right now- the Navasota Sub is still being dispatched out of Omaha at this time. Spring faired pretty well in Ike- we had a lot of trees down and some houses got hit with trees- signs were blown out and electricity lines got snapped in the wind- but we're doing good up here. We're still without power in most of town- my subdivision is going on one week without electricity. The UP is running all the crossing and signal circuits on portable generators (they are all chained to the side of the control boxes along the ROW) and a couple times a day a highrailer will get track and time from the DS to go fill them up with gas. We're supposed to get our power back on Monday- so we'll see if the power company can keep their promises!
Danny,
The Spring Dispatch Center is back open in limited capacity right now- the Palestine, Terminal, and Eureka Subs are all being dispatched out of there right now- the Navasota Sub is still being dispatched out of Omaha at this time. Spring faired pretty well in Ike- we had a lot of trees down and some houses got hit with trees- signs were blown out and electricity lines got snapped in the wind- but we're doing good up here. We're still without power in most of town- my subdivision is going on one week without electricity. The UP is running all the crossing and signal circuits on portable generators (they are all chained to the side of the control boxes along the ROW) and a couple times a day a highrailer will get track and time from the DS to go fill them up with gas. We're supposed to get our power back on Monday- so we'll see if the power company can keep their promises!
Nordique,
Thanks for the update ,sorry its taken 3 days to reply..I went rail fanning down toward the Sumerville area Sat and the BNSF was running trains north and south all day,didnt see any UP ...
......Sounds like your company treated you fellows pretty good Ed....Bet that can work both ways.
Quentin
Yes, UP and BNSF started operations Wensday morning.
Dont know about the Spring Dispatch Center...I know most of Spring has no power, but I would have though the dispatch center would have it's own generator...but I didnt hear them on the air Wensday afternoon.
CTC was not working when I left Wensday at 2:30 pm...
Our yards are OK...been up and running since Monday morning.
The PTRA called Sunday, and asked, not ordered the guys on first shift to come in monday, we cobbled a few yard crews together...they fed us breakfast and lunch, gave everyone who showed up 4 cases of water, two 10 lb bags of ice, and 20 gallons of gasoline or diesel, monday, tuesday and wensday...not to shabby...we were running 1st only till wensday because of the lack of yard lights and the curfew here.
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Hey Ed,
Are the BNSF and UP running down there yet? UP is still dspg from Omaha..How did Spring fair?
Are the yards underwater,are you back to work yet?
Ed
Looks like the builders of Houston took a page from the Mudchicken's book. Drainage, Drainage, Drainage...
Jay
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Sunday afternoon....
Same bayou, White Oak...Thursday night.
Second photo was shot from the bridge shown in the first one...
This is still above normal flow by about a foot, so you can judge the amount of water that was flowing there Sunday afternoon.
Up and BNSF started operation here yesterday...most of the CTC system is down due to power loss and railroad power lines down...most crossing guard systems do not work, all trains advised to approach any crossing prepared to stop and flag the crossing...some trains are running on track and time or TWC...all mainline switches have to have the position they were left in reported to the dispatchers...old time railroading, but it works...no form 19s, but I would bet the CTC is back before it come to that.
Today, several of the PTRA customers requested service, which means a lot of the refineries are coming back on line and need supplies.
Opening windows is a myth. It's the missile damage that wrecks windows and walls.
The Roof is your seal on a house against a storm. Once it gets ahold of one corner and peels, the walls and contents cannot stand.
Building codes refer to wind loading of a house wall (And doors, windows etc) that say so much wind can blow for only so long. I think 90 mph for 3 second duration and some buildings are overbuilt to withstand 140+ mph. It only takes a failure anywhere in the structure to compromise it.
My standard is a 60 mph storm for the house I live in. I expect damage above 60. Anything over 80 ... most certainly.
Actually, research has shown that it's not the pressure differential that destroys a building (speaking chiefly of tornados, but it's true of hurricanes, too). It's the wind, pure and simple.
If there's something to be said for losing the windows in a building like that, it's that it might reduce the "sail area" thus reducing the possibility of the building just plain being blown over.
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....Wow, that's wild. Too bad the designers can't {or don't}, seem to be able to match the strength of the glass and the building. On the other hand, maybe the breakage of glass out of skyscrapers might act as a safety valve and save the building's integritiy.
That must be a heck of a job cleaning up all the glass in downtown Houston....and the danger of shards of glass still vulnerable in upper stories still hanging in place....
....Nice pic's Ed....I imagaine some of the distant skyscrapers are the ones that suffered so many blown out window glass.....
Randy - Syracuse and environs got some wind and a few areas suffered some loss of power, but all should be good now. Talked to daughter (Liverpool) last night - no issues for them except for some twigs to clean up out of the yard.
We got it good here, but outages were spotty and fuel was never an issue.
Afternoon all.....
Our terminal next to Miller Brewing in Trenton/Hamilton, OH is still without power and fuel as I type this. Have not heard how Weedsport/Syracuse fared.
Randy in Bloomington/Normal, IL
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Glad to hear that Ed is OK. Ike didn't hit in this part of PA, but like a fool, I was down in the Caribbean dodging it on a cruise ship.
Guess I know now why the tickets were cheaper this time of year. And I thought it was because the kids went back to school.
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Still standing.
Beaten up some....
But never beaten.
Geared Steam wrote: wyomingrailfan wrote:I know why we haven't heard anything from New Orleans, it's because nobody's there.Nobody you would want help from anyway.
wyomingrailfan wrote:I know why we haven't heard anything from New Orleans, it's because nobody's there.
Nobody you would want help from anyway.
It's still raining, and it's 1 am so we may not know about all the limbs down yet, but despite a severe T'storm warning, the band of weather that just came through here has produced minimal damage - just some rain which should end soon.
Guess I'll head for bed now.
Edit: It wasn't the rain band that ended up being the problem. We got just .14 inch of rain. It was the wind that came in behind it. Rain stopped at 1. Pager went off about 3:30 for a tree down with wires. Fortunately (for us, not the homeowner), it took the wires off the pole, so we could clear the tree, etc and get out of there. The 9-1-1 dispatchers have been very busy, and our local utility isn't promising any ETA's to deal with problems. (Usually, for a one-off event, like a house fire, they'll tell us when to expect them. Not today.)
Ike came through Arkansas pretty quickly compared to Gustav. For us the Sirens screamed, rotation passed over shelter and a few were on the ground to the west and a bunch of flooding, power losses etc. Then the wind came to the south side of the house and shook it all night. I didnt think I would have a shingle left when the sun rose.
I woke up to see my land full of leaves and twigs. It is almost as if the storm took the time to groom the trees. 2 of them are going to be brought down later this week. We were fortunate to have gotten away with it this time except for some sinkage in the land where recent construction was done. Probably will have to find a backhoe and spend a few hours taking care of that sometime before winter.
The town did pretty well and we are thankful.
Our thoughts go out to those who have suffered loss or damage in the storm.
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