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Old 09-12-2008, 06:41 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Yeah, great to have the seawall there for at least half the island. But it's only on the gulf facing side. Water is gonna rise in the bay as well and inter-coastal waterway, the backside of the island. The residential parts of the island are not at seawall level, but lower. And that water is gonna be flowing all around as the surf pounds in pulls out... well, enough of that.

Afterwards will be good business for construction.
In-laws left the island late this morning. Water was already rising for the in-laws that live near the bay - no rain yet. Many streets in Galveston flood quickly even in moderate but consistent rain; their street is horrid when it rains and of course during tropical storms (never experienced a hurricane when I lived in Galveston, but did go through a couple of tropical storms). 2 in-laws are staying on the island, but I haven't gotten any updates from them recently.
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Old 09-12-2008, 08:56 PM
 
Location: Sound Beach
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It is very likely that most or all of Galveston Island will be uninhabitable for months after this storm. Ike is larger...and there is far more vulnerable construction on the coast...than the 1900 "Issac storm". 11,000 residence decided to remain on the island. This very well could be an incredible humanitarian catastrophe.
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Old 09-13-2008, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Warrior Country
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I posted this on another thread, but I'm trying to get my head around a 15-22 foot storm surge in this heavily populated low lying area.

From Weather Underground:



The Kemah Boardwalk is what.....8-10 feet above the shoreline? The water level will be 8 - 15 feet ABOVE the boardwalk?

League City, Kemah, La Porte, TX City, Baytown etc. Wouldn't ALL of these cities (for the most part) be under 20 (or 10) feet of elevation?

& with a 17 - 20 foot surge on the Bolivar Peninsula (aka West Beach) wouldn't every single home (many of them new & beautiful beach homes) west of the seawall be damaged or destroyed?

Wow.

Am i looking at this wrong? (i hope so)
Thankfully the surges weren't as bad as the projections stated above.

Also, I confused the Bolivar Pen. (Crystal Beach, High Island etc.) with West Beach. (They're on either side of downtown Galveston).

I'm sure both areas suffered damage.....but I'm very concerned for the Bolivar Pen. (which would have received the counterclockwise (n/e) punch). I believe the famous helicopter saving the family video viewed yesterday...came from Crystal Beach & that is VERY flat skinny land.

I haven't seen any video this morning from there....but i hope everyone else evacuated from there or it would have been VERY bad for people who stayed.
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Old 09-13-2008, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Sound Beach
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Absolutely very good news that the storm surge was lower than predicted. The way I understand it the surge was disrupted by sand bars located just off shore that the computer models used cannot include in their calculations. This was a very lucky error.
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Old 09-13-2008, 02:23 PM
 
Location: El Paso, TX
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HURRY RGV get down there, we need your pictures!
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Old 09-13-2008, 10:24 PM
 
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
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have heard that corpus took a bigger beating than anticipated.......
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Old 09-13-2008, 10:42 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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I heard from someone down there (checked in on one of my horse lists - she had too many horses to evacuate) that said that they got no wind or rain, which surprised me.
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Old 09-14-2008, 12:33 AM
 
Location: Metromess
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Yeah, the left side of Ike (Corpus Christi) got nothing. But Beaumont/Port Arthur on the right side of Ike over to Lake Charles, LA got plenty. I understand that the cool front moving in in the next two days will create heavy thunderstorms and lots of rain on the coast. Just what they need.
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Old 09-14-2008, 02:35 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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And STILL nothing for Central Texas. We need rain too!
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Old 09-15-2008, 07:54 AM
RGV
 
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Well, finally got back on the internet. I'm in Round Rock now staying with my brother in law.

Spent all day Saturday clearing trees with other men of the neighborhood off the roads, then cleaning up my yard. Still sore this a.m.

Yesterday the lights were still off so the family left for round rock and I joined them later.

No opportunity to get any picks. Was too busy. Sorry about that.

Anyway, we're all safe and sound in Round Rock.

Adios
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