Hurricane Ike Watch!!! (ALL Ike posts in here please!) (Houston: moving, flooding)

[jluke65780]

Is the TSU area/3 Ward safe??? I would think this area would probably flood,but not sure.

[kpo67]

Hurricane Ike, 2008 / Stormpulse / Hurricane tracking, mapping

[texas7]

Originally Posted by jfre81

Don't take my word for it, because in all likelihood I have no idea what I'm talking about as usual, but I'm not really looking for anything bigger than a Cat-3. Hurricanes lately seem to have trouble keeping high intensity when coming up on the upper Texas or Louisiana coast for some reason. Katrina and Rita lost steam before making landfall, and so did Gustav and other storms from the recent past. I'm probably staying put. There are some people on the coast I'm more concerned about, having grown up there and all.

A co-worker just went to Louisiana for business on Friday and it was near Monroe which is higher up in Louisiana - water was 6 feet deep in some areas there (still) and another acquaintance who lives near Little Rock, AR who has been w/o power for the past 5 days due to winds from Gustav taking out trees and power lines. Gustav may have lost steam over NOLA but seemed to wreak a bit of havoc in areas where people would have though it was okay.

[Mom2Feebs]

Once Wednesday comes, I will pay a little more attention as they get this thing a little more narrowed down. Right now, they've got it all over the place...Houston, Corpus, Port Lavaca...any of which would/could give us the sorry side of this sucker...

[beverly7570]

Originally Posted by texas7

A co-worker just went to Louisiana for business on Friday and it was near Monroe which is higher up in Louisiana - water was 6 feet deep in some areas there (still) and another acquaintance who lives near Little Rock, AR who has been w/o power for the past 5 days due to winds from Gustav taking out trees and power lines. Gustav may have lost steam over NOLA but seemed to wreak a bit of havoc in areas where people would have though it was okay.

I understand that people up in Houston don't want to be there in case of "something" going wrong, but those of us south of you need to get out of the way too. During the last evacuation, every time we stopped for whatever reason it was people from Katy and Houston evacuating and the people on the coast were stuck behind them, we were very lucky, we left at just the right time to get out if we had left an hour later we would have been stuck like everyone else. It took us 12 houst to get to south Austin, another family left 1 hour after us and it took them 24 hours to get out. I'm not discouraging anyone from leaving if they so chose, but please please think of those south of you who are a heck of alot closer than you are in Houston and Katy. My house is 14 miles from the water, I really think we're a bit more in need of getting out than those in Houston and Katy. If people could just let the major southern evacuations then go it would get ALOT of people out of serious danger zones.

[texas7]

Originally Posted by beverly7570

I understand that people up in Houston don't want to be there in case of "something" going wrong, but those of us south of you need to get out of the way too. During the last evacuation, every time we stopped for whatever reason it was people from Katy and Houston evacuating and the people on the coast were stuck behind them, we were very lucky, we left at just the right time to get out if we had left an hour later we would have been stuck like everyone else. It took us 12 houst to get to south Austin, another family left 1 hour after us and it took them 24 hours to get out. I'm not discouraging anyone from leaving if they so chose, but please please think of those south of you who are a heck of alot closer than you are in Houston and Katy. My house is 14 miles from the water, I really think we're a bit more in need of getting out than those in Houston and Katy. If people could just let the major southern evacuations then go it would get ALOT of people out of serious danger zones.

Definitely agree w/you on that -- I too am in a mandatory evacuation zone (not the first though) and it was ridiculous where some people were evacuating from and hosing up traffic. In times of emergency - obvious that every man for himself is the attitude that prevails. Of course, you can see that in the grocery store when one person buys two carts of water, way too much milk and bread and it just goes on.

[Poltracker]

Folks the saying is: "Run from water, hide from wind" it is a good saying and very applicable. If you are not in a storm surge zone, you need to be thinking of fortifying your home and staying put until after the storm passes unless you are in a vulnerable structure like a mobile home. Yes, roofs and structure will be damaged and trees will fall, but the largest percentage of victims of hurricanes actually die from storm surge...not from wind damage to their homes or shelters. The one exception is tornadoes spawned by the storm. Based on the size of Ike, those could show up over a large part of Texas. Inland flooding may also occur but it will not be the threat of the storm surge.

Stay alert, listen to your local authorities, and follow their instructions.

[BoydS]

Some very good advice has been given here and from folks who have had experience with hurricanes in the past. I too have been through a few and not looking forward to another, but that's the cost of living close to the gulf coast. This link from the Houston Chronicle of the Sciguy offers some excellant info that I think you'll appreciate.

SciGuy: Ike Archives

I'm in a zone C area and don't have any plans of leaving unless Ike becomes a cat 4 or 5. Hopefully, the folks out there that have never experienced a hurricane will listen to authorities and stay tuned to the media. If your totally freaked and terrified, leave now. At least check out the link I have provided, it does offer some good info and advice.

[MissDaisy]

Okay, some (or most) of you will think I am a dork...but we have a home -and tenants- in Conroe, and we are watching this from CA...I realize that 90 miles-ish from the coast may seem like a far stretch...but, what are YOUR experiences with hurricanes, and their complications (spawned tornadoes, etc) for the area?? I believe Conroe is a hurricane evacuation zone?? I know it is probably all basic sense to most of you, but if you could help me understand it, it would be appreciated!!

....and in return, I will allow all of you to shelter yourselves in my doorways during the next earthquake in CA !

[Poltracker]

Originally Posted by MissDaisy

Okay, some (or most) of you will think I am a dork...but we have a home -and tenants- in Conroe, and we are watching this from CA...I realize that 90 miles-ish from the coast may seem like a far stretch...but, what are YOUR experiences with hurricanes, and their complications (spawned tornadoes, etc) for the area?? I believe Conroe is a hurricane evacuation zone?? I know it is probably all basic sense to most of you, but if you could help me understand it, it would be appreciated!!

....and in return, I will allow all of you to shelter yourselves in my doorways during the next earthquake in CA !

Conroe is no where near a hurricane evacuation zone and is safely inland. It could very well get some very high winds and gusts and see downed trees, electric lines and some storm damage but a hurricane has usually dropped a category or two before it hits Conroe. For the kind of damage that might be seen, look into the damage in the inland part of TX after Hurricane Rita.