Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Ike
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I am in Texas City at a chem plant (southeast of Houston). We are preparing and shutting down in anticipation of Ike. What are others around the Gulf coast going through in preparation for Ike?
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RE: Hurricane Ike
Good luck,
Latexman
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I took a direct hit from Hurricane Rita in 2005, and so far, Ike has done the same thing, its point of impact has slowly been moved eastward. Our parish has not issued mandatory evacuation orders (yet) and I might spend the night tomorrow at our local plant. It survived Rita quite handily.
I would think that some parts of Houston with the power out would be "interesting"...
good luck to everybody
old field guy
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RE: Hurricane Ike
Good luck,
Latexman
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RE: Hurricane Ike
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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We lost power for about ten minutes right after midnight, but it's back on.
If everything goes right, I get to go out to the plant after this blows through and turn it back on.
old field guy
RE: Hurricane Ike
We suffered damages but survived. I live and work in Galveston county (not the island) so its a mess.
I hope all the others with interests in this area survived and are getting back up now.
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My three compressor stations with electrical prime movers are all on line, totaling 25,000 horsepower. I have one more station to fix up. Its 480 volt MCC went halfway under storm surge waters and we're waiting for the rest of the water to go down.
old field guy
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My home office had a 6 ft surge in San Leon. Saturday I am going to start gutting the place.
All 3 structures I have on the property are 40+ years old and are completely in tact, not 1 broken window. Unfortunately the interiors are coated with Galveston Bay mud.
Additionally I have the remains of a kitchen, staircase, and dock in my yard, also 2 priceless peacan trees fell.
I am going to miss their shade.
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Sorry you got it so bad RC. Hopefully your insurance or FEMA can provide some relief. I've heard San Leon was basically wiped out. Hopefully you didn't ride it out.
I was in League City during the storm. A little shingle loss, down fence, and broken window. So I fared pretty well.
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Typically when a hurricane hits the gulf area, all we (Ohio) get is some rain.
With Ike, we got up to 80 mph winds on Sunday afternoon.
Electricity is still out in a lot of places.
Nothing in comparison to what the situation is like in Texas, but we definitely felt the effects of this storm.
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What part of Ohio, we in Indiana, Lafayette, only got about 1.6" of rain, had some 40 mph+ winds. Sister-in-law down in Middletown was without powere for a few days. Lots of IN got more rain than us, still waiting on the rivers to go down North of Lafayette.
Alan M. Etzkorn
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Wabash National Corp.
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Southwestern Ohio (Cincy-Dayton)
Not much rain, but a lot of wind and damage. There are still people without power. I heard a report that about 85 of Ohio's 88 counties had damage.
Again, nothing compared to Texas, but we typically don't get a lot of damage from just wind - unless it is a tornado.
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