This one is for Texas --IKE

[MossRoad]

I forgot to mention... on the way in to work this morning, my daughter and I noticed lots of huge mushrooms popping up all over the place... especially in city parks. We're talking plate sized 'shrooms!

 

[Bird]

I forgot to mention... on the way in to work this morning, my daughter and I noticed lots of huge mushrooms popping up all over the place... especially in city parks. We're talking plate sized 'shrooms!

It's almost the opposite here in my yard; lots of them have popped up, but they're all small ones. Of course, I mowed yesterday so I chopped them up before any got much bigger than golf ball diameter size.

 

[EddieWalker]

Day three with no electricity. The generator is starting to have issues. The power company takes our call and says they are working on it, but they also sais Houston is the priority and they want to get the largest numbers of people online the soonest. From what we can tell, everyone around us has power, but our place and a dozen homes down one street. Then the rest of that street has power, as do the homes on the streets that branch off of that one. Without any power, it's all we can do for excitement to drive up and down the roads looing for who has power and who doesn't.

Steph and the kids are staying with her mom. Power was out for two days at her place, but now that she has hot water, it's better for them.

Eddie

 

[mikim]

Moss -- I had 10" of rain in 2 hours last year -- flooded my house ....Ike came through and I just got back from reviewing damage at home (I've mostly been here at the office since Wed) ....Not so much as a lost shingle. Privacy fence is down -- me and everybody else in 100 miles -- but the house is fine. Bernice is coming back tonight or in the a.m. from our country place. Don't know why I'm so lucky this time -- but I'm in an area and am among the very few in town that has power and water -- operation normal.

 

[mikim]

Had 10 people in our old 12 x 60 mobile --- yesterday while I was trying to do a quick turn around to the country and back they hollered "septic is backed up" .... had to mount the backhoe - drag the tractor 15 miles - and dig up the septic tank lines ..... it's working again -- sorta -- I'll have to fix it right later -- I had to get back to the office. I was 6 hours late getting in which didn't make the boss happy -- but what's he gonna do? fire me? - I'm retiring in 110 days. Things are still hopping around the office here as we are in recovery mode. But I'm going to sleep at home tonight. This crap of sleeping on the floor of my office just don't make it.

 

[Bird]

Mike & Eddie, I feel for both of you. That's some tough time. Hope it all gets straightened out soon.

 

[lrunge]

Ike met a cold front as it hit Ky, Indiana, and Ohio on Sunday. No rain in Greater Cincinnati area but sustained winds between 40 -50 mph for hours and gusts up to 74 mph. Still have over 600,000 people without power. Which is a lot for Cinacinnati area. Mine came back on last night after about 30 hours. We had our diesel running at work but almost ran out of fuel.
I lost 2 large trees completely down, the tops of eight trrees broken off and lots of large and small branches. Chimney cap flew off and landed in the pool with concrete still attached to it. Their were thousands of houses with missing siding and roof shingles. Business signs blown down Trees laying on power lines everywhere. Duke sent crews down to Texas to help and are now calling them back. Only a couple of fatalities, thankfully.
I guess I shouldn't have mentioned Alicia a few posts ago.
All in all, nothing as bad as Galveston and Houston but bad enough in it's on right as we are used to tornados and ice storms not sustained strong winds.

 

[dmccarty]

Have any TBN Texans got a feel if Ike took many lives?

Looking at the destruction and hearing reports that people did not get off the islands its seems like a miracle that anyone survived out there. The best I can tell is that people may have only had 12 hours from the evacuation orders until the water rose and cut off access. Ike move right at the last minute which appears to have decreased the destruction on Galveston Island.

The media seems to have left the story of Ike alone and run off to talk about other stuff.

Later,
Dan

 

[mikim]

Dan -- I wrote a really long angry reply but then deleted it --- I can tell you that evac orders were given in plenty of time - starting 2-3 days prior -- the fact that people didn't leave ......well... I can't talk about it.....

 

[Bird]

Dan, the latest news stories in this area are claiming a death count of 40 so far, and I think most of those were outside Texas. However, at last report, some 2.2 million are still without electricity and much of the area has not been inspected yet for either survivors or bodies. They do expect to find more bodies.

And like Mikim said, they had plenty of warning and time to leave, if they had chosen to do so.