My "Ikemare" is ending...is yours? (Tyler, Galveston: insurance, condo)

[southeasttexas]

Finally coming to the end of clean up for my acre lot. Lost 6 trees and tons of branches. Still have the roof to do, but will be hireing that out...

How is everyone else doing? Is life close to normal yet? Hope everyone is recovering well.

[love roses]

I haven't heard from my mom, so I guess everything is going well for them.

[texdav]

In my area Ike was nothing compared to Rita unless you were in a area effected by storm surge. I've now seen the difference between 90mph;100 mph and 130 mph. 130mph is a huge increase in damage. But the storm surge makes even that seem minor.Had mine clean up for about two weks and the city has hauled it off. Tiwhn next to mine with no seawall had 3500 homes flooded with only four not, I helped them clean up and it was unbeleievabke having two feet of weds from the gulf and marshes covering evrything. Fish everyhwere and you name it, Most homnes have how been stripped and companies treating to prevent mold. Thank god it was a town that the vast majority had flood insurance ;many because of the Rita havi9ng gone thru Rita and no problerm with flooding. Now Galveston and the bolivar area are just something else. Looks from vodeo that a giant rake was passed over Bolivar.

[southeasttexas]

Originally Posted by texdav

I've now seen the difference between 90mph;100 mph and 130 mph. 130mph is a huge increase in damage.

I live in Winnie. Rita had 119 mph reading at the Highschool weather station, Ike 110. Ike was harder on my area, though. I guess it was because of being on the east (right) side of the eye. The town suffered slightly more with Ike, but BOTH were very bad for us. I have now lost 16 trees off my arce lot: 8 from Rita, 2 Humberto, 6 Ike. I am getting hurricaine fatigue...

[Poltracker]

I see that most of us who only suffered wind damage are doing pretty good right now. However, I was driving along the west side of Galv Bay on Saturday (Shore Acres, Seabrook, San Leon) and saw that those folks aren't even close to any sort of recovery. They are still in the major stages of clean up (Shoreacres looked like a rather large dump w/ houses sticking out) and have not really started any kind of repairs/recovery yet. I was actually in the area looking for 2 of my friends (Shoreacres/San Leon) and it just wrenched my heart to see the destruction. The volume of materials that have to be removed yet is still huge and will take a while.

[westhou]

My view from my office window sucks. I'm getting tired of seeing the skyscrapers with thier windows boarded up. I'm wondering when they will be replaced. It's starting to look like downtown detroit.

[Rocket Power]

Unlike Rita which caused me to have to find another place to live, I was very fortunate this time around.

A few shingles off the house and fallen tree branches are all I got.

From all I've seen on the news, people in Hardin County made off better than they did with Rita, while folks in places like Sabine Pass have it worse than what they did with Rita.

I actually felt a little guilty being a crybaby over not having cable/internet last week, when other people don't even have homes to live in anymore.

[autotech4dallas]

I send all of my condolences to my neighbors (you guys) in Texas who have suffered from Hurricane Ike recently and I pray for a speedy recovery to you all. Take care.

-autotech4dallas from Oklahoma

[BobTex]

I'm still cleaning up tree stuff But I have 50 acres so I'm "pacing" myself. Heck, I still have dozens of trees from Rita That I'm allowing to compost. Here in Tyler County it was not nearly as bad as Rita. I can concur with the wind speed differences. I know in Rita the wind guage (KFDM Weatherbug) broke at 126 in Woodville. I think 90 would be right for Ike but I haven't heard. We rode the storm out in Livingston (yep ... decided to move into the storm path) at the hospital where the wifey works. Driving back east on Saturday after the storm it was evident Polk County had gotten it bad, worse than Tyler County by far. Still my 4 nearest neighbors suffered extensive roof damage


Don't even want to put myself in the shoes of the poor folks that were hurt so bad by surge (ie: Bridge City). God bless them!

[txstate]

I hope everybody is doing okay after Ike.