Open chat / Beware of Ike... / Temprah 17 years ago

Beware of Ike...

Dunno how much everyone not around here got to see of our cuddly crayon's namesake, but I wanted to share a webpage someone had made compiling all kinds of images. Sooo many break my heart of places I know and loved to go. http://www.tpicks.com/pictures%20people%20have%20sent%20me.html

But this is one image below I wanted to show since it blows my mind.. well before the storm came ashore the storm surge (what ultimately did almost all of the damage you see on Galveston, with the waves and flooding just destroying beachfront homes that sit 12-14 foot in the air) This is a truck driving down the seawall. As you see the roadway is about even with the surf right? Normally that is around a 14' steep drop down to the beach and then the waterline is a good ways away. You can also see how the interior island is lower than the seawall, as the road coming off of it drops down.

Vex 17 years ago

what the fuck is that guy doing in the truck?

Vex 17 years ago

also:

i want this contractor to build my future house.

Vex 17 years ago

omg thats hilarious

Lessa 17 years ago

its hard to believe that was just a cat 2 hurricane..

Temprah 17 years ago

That house Vex has been QUITE talked about around here it it's the one I think it is. Blocks and blocks around it just... gone. The couple who own it were supposedly wiped out by Rita so they got their contractor to build a house designed to withstand a Cat 5. It was something like 18 feet in the air.. much higher than all the others. And what is the dumbass in the truck doing? Well of the 56k residents on the island some 15 odd thousand stayed and weathered the storm despite all the evacuation orders, so he's probably one of those idiots. Some people interviewed from Boliver penninsula (a whole city just a ferry ride across the bay from Galveston that was just wiped clean away basicly) said that when the storm started they put on their life preserver vests and when their house was flooded / blown away they just clung to debris and floated around.......... in snake, alligator and fire ant infested waters. omfg some people are stupid eh?

ROzbeans 17 years ago

I read that those people who's house stayed up felt horrible. You have that 'i survived guilt' people get after catastrophes like this. Pretty freaky.

Temprah 17 years ago

Oh and Lessa.... the storm surge was equal to a Cat 4 or 5 because of the massive size of the storm. Your storm surge is what does mst of your coastal damages so.... yeah it was a Cat 2, but not in many ways. Plus the thing was as big as the state of TEXAS... which is bigger than a lot of European countries... second only to Alaska in size I believe.

Adiene 17 years ago

i know right o_o

Lessa 17 years ago

Thats just insane, no wonder they are going to take so long to let people go back and get power back and everything to everyone..