Major Hurricane Ike

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How many days has this been a hurricane for?

[Katherine]

Webcam capture of already-flooded Galveston street 'The Strand' shortly before the site hosting it went down......

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Expected storm surge.

Edited September 12, 2008 by RAIN RAIN RAIN

[kold weather]

Feeder roads are flooding now in western Galveston where there is little in the way of protection.

The best thing we can hope for is the system takes a slight jog to the east however in truth all that will do is shunt the 20-30ft surge eastwards but either way this is going to cause huge damage.

[BrickFielder]

Day time heating along with a defined eye will intensify this a bit although it looks a bit thin on its north west quadrant so it might make Cat 3.

Picture from teh NHC Site Here

Looks pretty rough in the south east quadrant. The size of the storm and the shape of the Gulf will intensify any storm surge I think. Could be bad news for any oil refining and so oil prices as well.

[Mondy]

[Iceberg]

It's amazing that things are already getting flooded and we have 12 hrs or so before it gets really bad.

[hoghedge]

Currently in Galveston - I think they're going under on this basis

Whoops - see we posted similar Iceberg

Edited September 12, 2008 by hoghedge

[MAF]

Webcam capture of already-flooded Galveston street 'The Strand' shortly before the site hosting it went down......

locked my PC out for a while because the site has crashed. thanks for the pic Katherine

[Mondy]

[Katherine]

Is that an eye forming?

I've circled round what I think is it:

[January Snowstorm]

I think we are watching history in the making.

Looks like a catastrophe developing before our eyes

[NL]

Could be bad news for any oil refining and so oil prices as well.

Crude oil prices have risen slightly with the threat of Ike to $102 a barrel, but the main

concern to the Americans is the price of gasoline as Texas refines about 25% of all

America's gasoline.

[kaz]

hard to belive there is still 12 hours to go .. watching it on fox omg they are getting battered already and now people are trying to get out many of the roads are flooded.. oops. gunner be interesting to watch over the next few hours.

kaz

[JT Texas]

The rising water prior to the arrival of the hurricane force winds was a major cause of deaths in the 1900 storm - now (9/12/2008 10:30 CDT) at the seawall GPST2 showing only winds NNE at 15 knts (gusts to 23), but with 8 feet of extra water.

Water would soon be too high to move on most of the island.

[tinybill]

You can see this alongside 3 others. Very good link this one ... although 1 seems to have gone down.

http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/ike.html

So whose staying up then?

houston tv saying 11 hours time

another link

http://www.khou.com/video/?nvid=178826&amp...es&noad=yes

Edited September 12, 2008 by tinybill

[Coast]

[I can't believe it's not better]

was watching one of the news feeds posted on here earlier. Emergency services were trying to persuade some folk to leave, but they wouldn't have it - that's their last chance. Some other guy was saying he's staying put because he lives on high ground. One of the news men said 'high ground' just meant the house was on stilts! Judging by some of the images already, 20ft+ on top and the waves too, wow - major disaster.

[Iceberg]

Stronger winds still being recorded by recon. 115Kts

155130 2750N 09207W 7511 02267 9704 +191 +163 133113 115 079 013 00

[kaz]

any chance off a new thread this is taking ages to load up ta xx

[Gray-Wolf]

Police chief visited the guys staying on surfside and asked them to tie I.D. to property and themselves to make their job identifying things easier when they come back after the storm. Basically the police are now leaving surfside.

[NL]

David Drummond is live streaming on the coast in Galveston.

http://www.severestudios.com/cgi-bin/strea...mond&uid=17

More live streaming here, with Englands own Stu Robinson.

http://severestudios.com/livechase

Edited September 12, 2008 by NL

[tinybill]

any chance off a new thread this is taking ages to load up ta xx

http://www.khou.com/video/?nvid=178826&amp...es&noad=yes

[Iceberg]

Some MAJOR intensification in the winds.

Flight speeds upto 123Kts.

Certainly a CAT 3 and growing at a pace.

155200 2751N 09206W 7511 02272 9713 +188 +158 137117 118 074 009 00

155230 2752N 09204W 7508 02280 9728 +175 +157 142121 123 075 006 00

155300 2753N 09203W 7510 02289 9764 +147 +147 143117 118 079 010 00

155330 2755N 09201W 7495 02320 9778 +148 +148 143116 117 081 008 00

155400 2756N 09200W 7507 02324 9799 +147 +146 139113 116 076 007 00

155430 2758N 09158W 7495 02348 9803 +155 +151 138110 111 069 003 00

[kold weather]

any chance off a new thread this is taking ages to load up ta xx

Ok I'll sort it out for you.

Flight level winds easily support cat-3, expect an upgrade soon...