Ed B: Are you in the path of a hurricane?

[edblysard]

The drainage bayou normally has 3 feet of water or less.

Cedar tree didn't make it, and the power line didn't either.

Common damage.

Looking west on our street, the tree in the background came up roots and all, took about 30 minutes to clear one lane.

And Mother Nature saves the best for last...

[edblysard]

I would have understood what you meant...and for a lot of people, obviously God did go with them...

You guys are great, thanks for the worrying...

got go watch and make sure the Aggies dont decide the grill would make a good bonfire...

Good luck, Ed.  I would say "good bye", but our modern use would make it seem a morbid farewell instead of its original, "God be wi'ye."  I'll say a prayer for those who couldn't manage to find a way out of Galveston.

-Crandell

[Modelcar]

....Rough stuff Ed....I was shocked to see so many windows blown out of skyscrapers in downtown Houston....Terrible mess....

Love your last pic...

[moelarrycurly4]

Ed

 

Glad to see you made it ok. I noticed all of the souviner stands and restaurants, including the Balanise room got washed away. 61st street pier gone etc. It must have been some storm surge a lot worse than Alicia. 45 covered with debris along the causway. Kemah got it again like they did in alicia. I was there in spirit watching it all on the net. Looks like we get the remants tomorow. Wish I could come help but I would be in the way.

[videomaker]

  Welcome back Ed, Glad to see you came thru with little damage! Good luck with the clean up !

[moelarrycurly4]

Just got a call from my friend who lives 45 at the south beltway. he said they are still without power, have some trees down but house made it ok.  This was his first Hurricane, spooked him about 4am.

[dharmon]

Dan,

Drove down 43 to Shepard...you parents neighborhood made out ok....lots ot bare trees and the pines trees took a beating, but looks like it will be ok...want me to check on your mom and dad?

My parents live not too far away from Ed's neighborhood.  Power is out, some trees down but not too much standing water yet.  Overall from their perspective that part of town is doing okay so far.  Can't speak for Ed'd neighborhood but it's only a couple of miles away. 

Hope you're doing okay Ed.

Dan 

 

 

Thanks for the offer Ed.  Been in contact with them this morning.  No damage, but some of the neighbors weren't so lucky.  A few trees on roofs and subsequent water intrusion.  I was surprise to hear that the water didn't pile up too much in the streets.  Glad to hear you and the ladies are fine. 

Dan

[dharmon]

Notice what washed up in the storm?  (Three posts above.)

Yeah, he probably commissioned a ship from the Navy to deliver the bottle! 

Nah...I'm about as landlocked as a Navy guy can get right now.  If you look up Trona RR....right around there. 

[jeaton]

Notice what washed up in the storm?  (Three posts above.)

Yeah, he probably commissioned a ship from the Navy to deliver the bottle! 

Nah...I'm about as landlocked as a Navy guy can get right now.  If you look up Trona RR....right around there. 

And all this time I thought the Army and the Air Force had a lock on prime locations. 

[jeaton]

Ed

Glad to see you are OK.  I gather your end of town is on fairly high ground with drainage that can handle a heavy onslaught.  I have to say that high winds and big old trees make me a bit nervous.  I have a couple around my house that could possibly do in the 6X6 old growth post and beams that hold the roof over my head.

I have an even healthier respect for a storm surge.  Nobody would have to order me inland with a hurricane in the forecast.  In 1969 I was in Pass Christian and stopped at a nice park with Oak trees with trunks 3-5 feet in diameter.  A few weeks later, Camille took them out like they were match sticks.

[rvos1979]

At least now the rig is getting a bath.....

Stopped here in Sullivan, MO, raining very hard now, with about a 30mph wind, can't see the fuel island from where I'm parked, supposed to be like this untill about 11am or so, then clearing.  Glad to hear you made it out relatively unscathed, though some got it worse.

I don't even bother to listen to the news anymore, too much hype going on in it lately, though I do keep up with the trucking news, have not seen diesel prices jump like gas, was $4.019 when I topped off in Effingham, IL yesterday, though the company I work for told us to try to keep our tanks full this weekend.

Keep fightin' the good fight, Ed.....

Randy in Sullivan, MO 

[edblysard]

Oddly enough, we are getting more rain from the thunderstorms that followed Ike in than from Ike proper.

Ike's major damage was the storm surge, and the winds.

My house sits on the spill from the old Acme Brick Works clay pit...we are about 3 or 4 feet higher than most other streets, so its all down hill from my house.

Dan's parents live in between two of the big bayous, White Oak bayou is just down the street, so if the bayous don't over flow, it should drain off pretty well there also.

Really wishing the rain would slack off enough for me to get on the roof and check for missing shingles.

 

I45 on the inbound side that faces West Bay is buried with debris...every thing from iceboxes to furniture to boats...if it was on west beach or the west end, its on I45 now.

Balinese room is gone, nothing but a pile of debris...the driveway to the Flagship is gone, although the hotel is still there.

61^st pier is gone as are almost all the wooden piers on the gulf side of the island...several homes on Galveston simply floated away...we will have a better idea of all the damage later today when the weather clears.

Haven't seen anything about Bolivar, but I don't think the jetties made any difference, so I would guess most of the beach front homes are in small pieces and a few blocks inland now.

[moelarrycurly4]

Ed

 

from what i saw only HIgh Island made it ok on boliver.

Crystal beach etc pretty much blew away. we have ike this morning huge wind gusts and rain

most rain to our west tho

[Ted Marshall]

Ed,

Glad to learn that you and your family made it through ok. We here in SW FL really dodged a bullet with Ike, but we still have over two months left in the season to worry about whether we'll be next; Living in paradise doesn't come without cost.

I hope the clean up goes smoothly and life as you know it gets back to normal soon.

[selector]

Ed, it is good to hear that so many folks can count themselves lucky, including you.  Time for reflection and open/public dialog now with/between City planners and those most likely to have to endure something like this, or far worse, in future days.

-Crandell

[arkansasrailfan]

200,000 people lost power in my state, and the wind was wild last night. My lights kept flickering on and off.

[txhighballer]

Ed glad to see you made it. My mother's house is fine.got a few leaks in the roof,no power but otherwise allright.

[Murphy Siding]

     Ed- glad to haer everything worked out OK.  Any word on how the railyard came through?

[edblysard]

White Oak Bayou...

Under normal circumstances, there is maybe 2 feet of water flowing through a concrete channel...this is at least 30 to 40 feet deep.

Typical tree damage...the home owner was next door helping his neighbor cut limbs off a tree blocking his driveway.

His attitude was "I can't do a think about the one on my house, but I can help my next door neighbor with his."

 

Murphy,

PTRA called while I was typing this...they asked if I could come in tomorrow morning...offered gas money, said they would feed us, and all the ice and water we can tote home with us...so expect some photos tomorrow sometime.

 

Highballer...funny how that works out...one house come through fine, next door gets wiped out...glad you moms is one of the survivors.

Crandell,

The owners of all the Landry's restaurants in Kemah already have announced they will rebuild all the boardwalk, and all their facilities on Galveston...when asked why they would rebuild in the same place after all this, the brothers said..."Because we grew up here, this home, where else would we build?"

 

Funny, haven't heard a thing from Mayor Nagen, or New Orleans...

Ya know, I think we can manage with out them...

[arkansasrailfan]

I know why we haven't heard anything from New Orleans, it's because nobody's there.

[edblysard]

Yeah, I forgot they all moved over here last year...

The two Aggies who helped me out yesterday arent even from here...Matt and Don...Matt from Oaklahoma, Don from Oregon...down here visiting Matts girlfriend, got stuck in traffic trying to get back to College Station, turned around and stuck it out here...got up yeasterday morning and decided to go out and clear roads...they dont even live here and are helping out...then to come home and see welfare parasites on the TV news whining about not getting "assistance" as fast as they think they deserve...man, these two kids have every right to haul stakes home as soon as they could, and instead they are out clearing roads for people they don't even know...and the flip side of someone sitting on their can in a FEMA paid for hotel room that they have lived in for over a year, complaining because they don't have A/C yet...makes you wonder sometimes.

[moelarrycurly4]

Right after  I posted this morning ( like minutes)Ike came roaring thru western Kentucky.  OUr neighbors tree uprooted into our trees sending our trees on to my car ( wait for the insurance to figure that one out.) Ripped out our electric phone and cable from the side of the house.  I just repaired my own phone and internet as it will be days before phone co arrives.  And as you can tell we just got power back on. Massave tree damage in my yard. But i could have been much worse. we are all safe and sort of spliced back together

[edblysard]

Yeah, your from Texas...you got the tools,the skill and the inclination, so why wait for someone else to do it for you...glad you came through it...good luck to ya...

[moelarrycurly4]

My chainsaw I used was bought for Alicia, Still going strong.

 

My car is under the pile to the right

[tree68]

Ike is making his presence known in northern New York.  The scanner is lighting up with numerous tree/branch/wires down calls.  So far we've escaped it, but the wind is definitely here.

With any luck the storm will blow through quickly and I can get a decent night's sleep.

[Geared Steam]

I know why we haven't heard anything from New Orleans, it's because nobody's there.

Nobody you would want help from anyway.

[Last Chance]

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.

[tree68]

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.)

[alcodave]

The remants of Ike were pretty strong here in my part of Ohio on Sunday, alot of trees down and damage to some buildings. the wind gusts were in the 70 mph range. CSX and Norfolk Southern both had some Damage to crossing gates. i saw three NS trains waiting to go south thru town while the section gang was doing some kind of repair on the tracks. It was a heck of a wind storm,but not much rain.

[arkansasrailfan]

I know why we haven't heard anything from New Orleans, it's because nobody's there.

Nobody you would want help from anyway.

what?