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Yes! WTF
Hey, do you see that? Is that another fire?
Did anyone or everyone's audio go out for the cnn feed?
Yes! WTF
Hey, do you see that? Is that another fire?
Looks like that guy just checked his policy and realized he didn't have flood insurance...
If we had sound we would know!!
Hey, do you see that? Is that another fire?
It is a fire...saw it on khou's stream.
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Not much here in Stone Oak either; trash day today and all the cans are still upright by the curb.
Our trash day is tomorrow, and we missed last Saturday AND this past Wednesday. I'll be sitting on the curb holding those damn things tomorrow morning.
I'm not going to read this whole thread, but how many false predictions did Manny make throughout?
Darwin's gonna have a field day the next 24 hours, what with dopes like this one:
Take off the Marine cap, idiot. You're embarrassing the Corps.
What the is he doing? Trying to steal the wheels?
The only 2 storms I've seen hyped up big time since Katrina are Gustav and Rita. And they BOTH ed up a lot of peoples lives. But if you are waiting for another Katrina repeat, this is your storm. Galveston and a lot of cities on the coast near it (as well as Port A) are about to go into the Gulf.
Fixing a flat?
Training for the Strongman?
Pissing in the gastank.What the is he doing? Trying to steal the wheels?
It's starting to get a little breezy on the NW side. Breezy enough to blow my one plant over a few times.
I bet it rains at Kori's and LJ's house and not mine.
The thing that pisses me off about people who refuse to leave is that they put the rescuers' lives in danger having to save their sorry ass.
Seriously look at his face. Probably the best piss of his life.
At least I hope he's just taking a leak. He's straining.
Holy the storm looks way better than even a couple of hours ago when I last checked.
online streams: http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/ike.html
my house is basically flooded or about to be... Seabrook/Kemah area
HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Houston officials are telling residents to stay put because it's not safe anymore to try to hit the road to escape Hurricane Ike.
Hurricane-driven waves pound a beachfront structure about noon Friday on Galveston Island, Texas.
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The Category 2 storm had 105 mph winds as of 5 p.m. ET, according to the National Hurricane Center. It is expected to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday near Galveston, and by that time may have strengthened to a Category 3, forecasters say.
Ike is 900 miles wide, measuring the cloud cover at its widest point. On Friday, its tropical storm-force winds extended up to 275 miles -- the length of the Texas coastline -- from its center, for a total reach of about 550 miles.
Those facts didn't seem to bother the beer drinkers at a bar and grill called Noah's Ark in Bacliff, Texas, a small town between Houston and Galveston that is expected to be Ike's bulls eye.
Lifelong resident Steven Alexander dismissed all warnings about Ike. "It ain't nothing but a little wind and rain," he said, saying that he's done nothing to prepare for the storm.
Charles Slaydon, who repairs and builds boat masts, joked that the storm would be good for business because it could "break every one of those masts."
With his pet parrot, Gracie, on his shoulder, Slaydon acknowledged that it's dangerous to ride out a storm of Ike's magnitude. "There's a lot of people who don't think this storm is as bad as it's going to be," he said. "But it's a bad boy."
At the Bacliff boating dock, two boys had been fishing Thursday night. By Friday afternoon, that same dock was submerged by the storm surge.
Although Ike was a couple of hundred miles away on Friday afternoon, authorities had rescued more than 120 people stranded by rising seas along the southeast Texas coast.
The U.S. Air Force and Coast Guard said earlier Friday that because the weather had deteriorated so severely, they would not be able to rescue by helicopter 22 people aboard a 584-foot Cyprus-flagged freighter. It was trying to beat the storm heading south from Port Arthur, Texas, when it lost power about 90 miles south of Galveston, Coast Guard Capt. Bill Diehl said.
"The best-case scenario is that Hurricane Ike pushes this freighter up into shallow water where they can drop anchor and ride out the storm," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Thomas Blue.
The Coast Guard was using helicopters to rescue residents from Galveston Bay's Bolivar Peninsula. Watch: Daring rescue saves motorist from flood waters »
About 200,000 residents have fled low-lying areas of metro Houston as the powerful storm approaches.
Authorities in Harris County, which contains Houston, asked residents in low-lying areas of the county to leave, and about 80 percent to 90 percent have complied, County Executive Ed Emmett said Friday morning. Watch: Residents have second thoughts, decide to evacuate »
Residents in safer parts of Houston were instructed to stay inside.
"We've asked people to hunker down," Emmett said.
Most law enforcement and rescue officials will start to leave Friday night, Emmett said, so residents will be on their own after that.
The military has 42 search-and-rescue helicopters on standby, one official said.
Floodwaters surged into Galveston Island neighborhoods Friday morning. Watch floodwaters surge into Galveston »
Waves washed for blocks inland, the beginning of a storm surge that forecasters warned could reach up to 22 feet and bring "certain death" to anyone who remained in Galveston Bay homes. Watch Gen. Russel Honore detail the challenges of a large evacuation »
More than half of the community of Surfside Beach was inundated by 8 a.m. Friday, and rescuers drove a dumptruck through the streets in a final bid to get people out before the storm hits, the Houston Chronicle reported.
Authorities in Galveston imposed a curfew to last from 8 p.m. Friday until dawn Monday. The town of La Porte also ins uted a curfew through 5 a.m. Saturday, the Chronicle reported. iReport.com: Galveston Island seawall slammed
Forecasters expect Ike to strengthen before its center makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday. Winds upward of 100 mph may reach the Texas coast by midnight, the hurricane center warned. Track the storm »
Although the weather service reports when a hurricane's center will hit land, it also says that the worst of the storm can hit before or after that.
Roughly 3.5 million people live in the storm's impact zone, according to federal estimates. iReport.com: Are you in Ike's path? Share your story
The weather service painted a vivid picture in its warning of the destruction it expects: a towering wall of water crashing over the Galveston Bay shoreline as the brunt of Ike comes ashore. That wall of water could send floodwaters surging into Houston, more than 20 miles inland. Watch CNN meteorologists track Hurricane Ike »
Latest on Ike
At 5 p.m. ET, center was 135 miles from Galveston, moving at 12 mph
Hurricane-force winds extend 120 miles from eye
Weather will get worse long before storm reaches coast
Hurricane warning in effect from north of Port Aransas, Texas, to Morgan City, Louisiana
Preparations should be "rushed to completion"
Storm surge expected to be 20 feet above normal tide level, 25 feet in some places
Source: National Hurricane Center
"All neighborhoods ... and possibly entire coastal communities ... will be inundated during the peak storm tide," the weather service warned. "Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family one- or two-story homes will face certain death." Watch President Bush urge residents to evacuate »
But farther inland, 4 million Houston-area residents were told to hunker down and stay home.
"We are only evacuating areas subject to a storm surge," said Harris County Judge Ed Emmett, the county's chief executive officer. "Yes, we know you will lose electricity. But you're not in danger of losing your life, so stay put."
The storm's counterclockwise rotation is likely to push water into Galveston Bay for hour upon hour, battering sea walls and structures.
The final storm surge, the one that could exceed 20 feet in height, would come as the hurricane's eye crosses the shoreline. See flood projections from the governor's office »
Galveston spokeswoman Mary Jo Naschke estimated Friday morning that just more than half of the city's 58,000 people had been evacuated.
Others chose to stay, at least initially.
Helpful Information
Red Cross: Say you're safe; search for others
City of Houston: Ike information
State of Texas: Hurricane Ike updates
Blog: How to hunker down for Ike
"I've decided not to evacuate," said iReporter Matteu Erchull on Galveston Island. "We have a lot of faith in the seawall, and we have boards on the windows. Most people on the island live on second or third stories, so they don't have to worry about the water so much."
However, Erchull started having second thoughts as the sea surged in.
"There's a lot of concern, actually, because we were getting all gung-ho about staying here, and just now I've taken all my electronics and [I'm] putting them on top of the refrigerator," he said.
"There's water on my door. It's like you're all ready for it until you start to see it yourself.
"The window of opportunity for us to leave is still available, and I wouldn't be surprised if I heed that warning in the next hour." iReport.com: See Erchull bracing for Ike
Paul King of Galveston said hurricanes are part of life on the Texas coast, according to CNN affiliate KSAT-TV.
"You enjoy it 360 days of the year," he said of his Galveston Island property. "And the other five, you have to get out of town." Watch how one family plans to avoid Ike »
A slight northward change in Ike's path could spare much of the Houston area and its millions of residents from catastrophic flooding by keeping the surge out of the bay and pushing it to less populated areas. E-mail to a friend | Mixx it | Share
Holy .
They are possibly expecting a 30 foot storm surge now. That would just be insane.
I'm sorry man - I assume you have flood insurance?
One of the Houston stations said as much as 40% of Galveston's population stayed....
Wow.
Hope they have gills.
omg 40%?!??!!
Dear me.
BTW, for folks with DirecTV they have again put up a local station, Channel 11 in Houston is on 361.
I prefer the locals to the nationals right now.
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