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This is set up to allow you to reports Conditions in your area related to Ike, including closures, evacuations, and general weather... |
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I'm getting word that new evacuation orders for Galveston may be issued at 7PM EDT (6 Central) based on some of the new model runs. More to come soon... Multiple Affiliate TV Coverage (TV Wall of local coverage in Houston - Mute individual videos to get audio for just one.) |
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Ike is a very large storm. I'm in Tallahassee, 442 miles from the center of Ike, and we are about to get outerbands from the storm with winds of 40 - 50mph expected. Incredible. (Post moved to the appropriate Forum.) |
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Quote: Wind and rain on and off all day here in Tampa/Clearwater Beach. (Post moved to the appropriate Forum.) |
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Channel 9 (ABC) Orlando reporting a tornado touch down in area of Kissimee. Some really nasty storms coming through Central Florida from Ike's bands this evening... (Post moved to the appropriate Forum.) |
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Just like Gus for us... AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 230 AM EDT THU SEP 11 2008 ...COASTAL FLOODING ALONG THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND COASTLINE TODAY... .SYNOPSIS...THE LATEST WATER VAPOR/UPPER AIR ANALYSIS DEPICTS A TROUGH AXIS FROM THE NRN ROCKIES TO A LOW OFF THE SRN CA COAST, AND A RIDGE FROM THE ERN PLAINS TO THE ATLANTIC COAST. AT 2 AM EDT, CATEGORY 2 HURRICANE IKE WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 25.0 NORTH, LONGITUDE 87.2 WEST, OR ABOUT 305 MILES SSE OF THE MOUTH OF THE MS RIVER. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS REMAIN NEAR 100 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. IKE IS MOVING WNW NEAR 9 MPH INTO THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO. IT WILL BE MAKING ITS CLOSEST APPROACH TO OUR MARINE LEGS OVERNIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. SUSTAINED ELY WINDS AT THE PANAMA CITY BUOY (42039) HAVE PEAKED AT 31 KTS THUS FAR, WITH GUSTS UP TO 39 KTS. THE WAVE HEIGHTS HAVE REACHED 22 FT WITH 10-12 SEC PERIODS. LARGE SWELLS CONTINUE TO SPREAD NWD TOWARD THE COAST. STORM TIDES THUS FAR HAVE BEEN 2-3 FT FROM THE WAKULLA COUNTY COAST WWD ALONG THE PANHANDLE, AND AROUND 2 FT ALONG THE TAYLOR/DIXIE COUNTY COAST WHERE THE FLOW WAS MORE OFFSHORE AND SWELLS HAVE HAD LESS OF AN EFFECT. |
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Mandatory Evacuations Ordered Mandatory evacuations have been issued in the following Harris County ZIP codes beginning at noon Thursday: 77058 77059 77062 77520 77546 77571 77586 77598 Those ZIP codes are zones A and B of the county's evacuation plan. It is possible that residents in those areas could be affected by the storm surge. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered in the following areas: Brazoria County - all unincorporated areas, beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday Chambers County - low-lying areas, beginning 10 a.m. Thursday Jackson County Jefferson County Matagorda County - all areas south of Highway 35 except Bay City and Van Vleck Orange County Ashby-Buckeye Bacliff - beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday Blessing Bolivar Peninsula - beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday Cedar Lane Chinquapin Collegeport El Maton Freddiesville - beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday Galveston - entire island Jamaica Beach - beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday La Porte Matagorda Omega Bay - beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday Palacious San Leon - beginning at 7 a.m. Thursday Sargent Tidewater Oaks Tres Palacious Oaks Wadsworth Galveston city officials issued a mandatory evacuation for residents on the West End only starting at 7 a.m. Thursday. Shelters will be set up for the residents on Friday at noon, but their locations have not yet been finalized. Brazoria County has three sites for residents who need to evacuate by bus: * Residents in the western part of the county should head to the West Columbia Civic Center, 518 E. Brazos Ave. * Residents in the south and central portions of the county should go to Angleton Middle School, 1001 W. Mulberry St. *Residents in the north part of the county should go to the Alvin Independent School District's Transportation Center, 2780 W. Highway 6. The buses will go to Bell County in central Texas. Voluntary evacuations have been issued in the following area: * Areas north of Texas 35 in Matagorda County and low-lying areas of Bay City and Van Vleck. * Brazos Bend and Stephen F. Austin state parks are on standby for a possible evacuation. * The city of Kingsville. * Hardin County * Friendswood The Lynchburg Ferry is ceasing operations at 1 p.m. and the Bolivar Ferry will stop running at 11 p.m. Thursday. Locally, Texas A&M University, Blinn College, and schools in the Bryan and College Station Independent School Districts will be closed tomorrow. Rumors that the highschool football games that were rescheduled for tonight have been canceled. |
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As of 7 am this morning water was half way into my parents' yard. They live off of Dog River close to Mobile Bay. We just cleaned up the water line from Gustav. Now, the water is all the way to their house. Thankfully, the tide has already reached its high at 11 am. I went outside at lunch (I work off of Water Street, right by Mobile Bay) and thought it had stormed without me knowing and then looked around to see the ground wasn't wet.......... it was Mobile Bay I was seeing on Water Street. Amazing!!! |
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it is so amazing that a storm so far away could effect us, some street flooding near north bay in lynn haven fl (outter area of panama city) just happened during high tide this morning, but the local police had to close some roads and some houses had to of had little water in them. having some wind with stronger gusts,, Ike has to be hundreds of miles away, and still we get a little,,,,amazing!!! |
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Amazing how far the storm surge affects the tide. HurricaneTrack.com had some video of the tide in Waveland, MS. I was in Lynn Haven last summer, I know exactly where that is. |
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Great link here....you may have to register but it does not cost anything. Great live feed. http://www.vuetoo.com/vue1/Situationpagenews.asp?rc=&cc=&af=&sit=2190&z=&np= |
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I just checked out Water Street here in Mobile, Alabama (outside my door at work) and the water is still rising. We have until 11:30 for high tide and the water is higher than it was yesterday I really am praying for all of us along the Gulf Coast. The cars zooming through the water look more like speed boats than vehicles. |
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I'm in The Woodlands, TX... ~30miles north of Houston and ~80miles north of Galveston. Current path has Ike's eye on top of us at about 9am tomorrow morning. 70mph+ winds. Currently high cirrus overcast, outerbands... no rain yet. steady 10mph+ wind gusting to ~15mph. Plan on posting updates as long as I have connection. Hoping for pics and some video as well. |
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hey richemj, I am just south of you on the edge of the woodlands/Spring area. I've been up on my roof boarding up this morning and we've had a couple of times where an outer band has come through and it's probably been more like 15-20 sustained for a couple of minutes with a gust or two close to 30 or so. A lot of people waiting until the last minute around here to board up and I don't know if they are going to make it by the time the stronger winds and rain hit. The current projected path has the eye going just slightly to our West, and we are expected winds between 85 and 95 mph according to this page: http://houstonhidefromthewind.org |
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I was just outside and even though we're pretty far away from Houston the wind just switched to NE and picked up a lot. Puffy clouds are starting to come in too. |
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Here in Lafayette, La we have been experiencing winds of about 17 mph with gusts of about 24 mph but it seems to be picking up somewhat with periods of hard rain due to outer rainbands. Later this evening, we are supposed to have tropical storm winds which can be a problem because trees that have been comprimised with Hurricane Gustav have a good chance of coming down with tropical storm winds. Not to mention, the ground is still wet from the rain from Gustav. We are under a Flash Flood watch until Sunday. The Vermillion River is already extremely high so, no doubt, homes living along the river will be at risk for flooding. |
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Excellent coverage! Thanks... |
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Quote: Whoops, forgot a quote and the link |
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I'm 306 miles from Galveston in Plano, TX and we just started to get a light breeze that sets off the motion detectors (about an hour ago). So that shows how far into Texas it's affecting already. |
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Ike is currently east of here. Cloudy and very breezy. No rain from Ike here. |
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Highest Recorded Peak Wind Gusts (mph): Sabine Pass 93 Houston Hobby 92 Eagle Point 89 Port Arthur 87 Galveston Pier 77 Lowest recorded pressure of 952.0MB was at Galveston Pier at 13/07Z. ED |
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For anyone wanting to know about damage and conditions in Houston and to a lesser extent, Galveston, I highly recommend the blog on ABC 13's website. http://weatherblog.abc13.com/2008/09/hurricane-ike-s.html I used to live in Clear Lake, and I've been reading the blog all day in an effort to learn what happened in that area of town. There are lots of great posts with important information about damage reports and which areas of the city are still closed to evacuees. |
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Ike started affecting us yesterday afternoon here in Spring, TX, just north of Houston. Overnight, the strongest winds affected us from about 2:30 to about 10 am this morning. At 7 am we were experiencing the northern edge of the eye wall, that was the strongest point of all. The power blinked in and out 3 times, with it going out for good on the 3rd time at about 4:30 to 5 am. We experienced fairly heavy wind and rain all day through early afternoon. I don't think anyone in our neighborhood had any real damage, no broken windows, mostly some fences blown down, mine included. Alot of small trees blown over, and alot of my landscaping was pulled up, roots and all and blown around my yard. I did a survey of the area and there was still some water over the road in a couple of places, and a bank drive through had been torn apart pretty severely. Our power turned back on at about 7:30 to 8 pm tonight. We are one of the lucky ones, as the town just north of us (with lots and lots of huge Pine trees) is expected to take 2-4 weeks to get it all restored. There are tons of lines down with trees over them and the such. Overall things went well here, it was my first hurricane and eye just brushed our location, so we got about 8-9 inches of rain total. Got some decent video and pictures as well so hopefully I can get them posted up soon. |