Almost 20000 Galveston Residents Staying

[Nbadan]

What are these people, fucken morons...this could be worse than NO, except white people!!


http://www.grandbeach.ws/Stewart-Beach-Park.jpg

LIFE THREATENING INUNDATION LIKELY!


ALL NEIGHBORHOODS...AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES...
WILL BE INUNDATED DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK STORM TIDE. PERSONS
NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY
HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE
CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD
AND DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE.
VEHICLES LEFT BEHIND WILL LIKELY BE SWEPT AWAY. NUMEROUS ROADS
WILL BE SWAMPED...SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE
FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF. WATER LEVELS MAY
EXCEED 9 FEET FOR MORE THAN A MILE INLAND. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN
MULTI-STORY FACILITIES RISK BEING CUTOFF. CONDITIONS WILL BE
WORSENED BY BATTERING WAVES. SUCH WAVES WILL EXACERBATE PROPERTY
DAMAGE...WITH MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF HOMES...INCLUDING THOSE OF
BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO REPAIR.

[Wild Cobra]

Well, they should at least be runner-ups for the Darwin Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards)!

That's OK with me. I don't mind people taking themselves out of the gene pool.

[Nbadan]

Yep. People have the right to die too, I guess....

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Dan, where did you see this at? Did it say they were all on the island? There's a significant portion of Galveston that is actually on mainland, though that area is low enough that I'd expect for it to flood.

Anyway, I feel sorry for people who are that stupid.

They talk about the sea wall being 17', but it's nowhere close to that.

[Nbadan]

First hand report from a resident of Galveston...

[Nbadan]

http://www.click2houston.com/2008/0911/17448320.jpg

Houston Mayor Bill White said this is the time for residents to help their neighbors...


"Don't think it's simply the job of somebody else to look after somebody who may be very isolated within your own neighborhood or community," White said. "We are our brothers' and sisters' keepers within this community."

Click2Houston (http://www.click2houston.com/news/17447458/detail.html#)

The outer bands of Ike are already causing storm surges...

Storm watch link (http://www.click2houston.com/wxmap/10112189/detail.html)

[SpursFanFirst]

Dan, where did you see this at? Did it say they were all on the island? There's a significant portion of Galveston that is actually on mainland, though that area is low enough that I'd expect for it to flood.

Anyway, I feel sorry for people who are that stupid.

They talk about the sea wall being 17', but it's nowhere close to that.

I heard 20' tonight....sounds nasty either way.
I believe they also said the storm is over 700 miles wide...stretches from TX to Tampa...that's INSANE! :wow

[George Gervin's Afro]

I live in Fort Bend County which is just east of the eye. We live approx 75 miles inland and are expecting 75 to 80 mph winds for a period of about 12 hours.

[balli]

That's OK with me. I don't mind people taking themselves out of the gene pool.

I'm with you, if they're dumb enough to stay, it's probably best for humanity that they cease to exist.

[Anti.Hero]

Is it really that hard to drive 100 miles and sleep in your car for one night....

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

I live in Fort Bend County which is just east of the eye. We live approx 75 miles inland and are expecting 75 to 80 mph winds for a period of about 12 hours.

Y'all be safe. I take it you're far enough above sea level not to worry about the surge down there?

I've got clients in Galveston, Pasadena, Ft. Bend, and Orange county, best I can tell everyone got out.

[RonMexico]

Yeah, I live in Downtown Houston... which is where the eye should be... this is going to suck.

I can't believe they've already had to rescue over 25 people stuck on rooftops in Galveston... people are morons.

All my friends were concerned that beer was sold out of grocery stores last night and are worried about hurricane parties tonight. I'm not participating because I don't think this hurricane should be treated so lightly and am very disappointed that I will miss quite a bit of football tomorrow due to power outages.

Still, where is Anderson Cooper and the rest of CNN to report about this hurricane? Oh wait, it involves white people and they can't rip on President Bush, so there's no reason...

I'm going to wait for Spike Lee's movie regarding 20 foot storm surgers in Galveston... probably wait until I die.

[Anti.Hero]

Geraldo is in Galveston I think. :lol:lol:lol

[Nbadan]

Ike Coverage: (http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/ike.html)

[Nbadan]

It's getting grim in Galveston...


http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/600xPopupGalleryCoomerGalvestongdj.jpg



After New Orleans, Galveston is probably the second-most vulnerable Gulf Coast city to hurricanes. Like New Orleans, Galveston relies on long-sturdy walls to protect its structures.

And like New Orleans, Galveston may soon find out that there's no substitute for elevation.

About 40 percent of the city's 58,000 residents ignored calls to evacuate. And now they're phoning for help and getting this response, "We can't help you." I fear it's going to get quite grim. City Manager Steve LeBlanc went so far as to ask the media not to photograph "certain things" in the aftermath, referring to the possibility of dead bodies.

Galveston's founders, including Gail Borden Jr., the inventor of condensed milk, made a poor decision when siting their burg in 1836. The city rests on a barrier island, essentially a glorified sandbar.

Ever-shifting, barrier islands are transient coastal features. They gradually build up from silt and sand deposited on the coast by inland rivers. The state's barrier islands slowly have died as Texas has dammed up many of its rivers.

Five years ago public officials spent millions of dollars to renourish starving beaches on the western end of Galveston Island, adding acres of shoreline. That summer, a minor hurricane, Claudette, made landfall in Texas near Port O'Connor.

Although the storm only produced about 45 mph winds in Galveston, it stripped away one-third of the new beach. It will all be gone by early tomorrow.

Chronicle Blog (http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2008/09/post_50.html)