In Local Weather
Even though Ike was 355 miles South-Southwest of us at 10 AM CDT, it has definitely been affecting our weather since since yesterday afternoon.
Today we have:
- Small Craft Warning in effect
- Coastal Flood Warning in effect
- High Surf Warning in effect
- Wind Advisory in effect
and sustained 20 mph winds out of the East, with higher gusts.
CNN has video from Pensacola Beach showing the reason for the High Surf Warning. US98 on our local barrier island is again under water as is another road along the beach in Destin. Roads near the northern coast of the Gulf are being flooded, and in some cases cut by the surge and the waves.
Everyone along the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle over to Mexico is being impacted by Ike. It is a huge storm, even larger than Katrina, and the waves and surge are going to cause most of the damage.
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cool!
yep, it’s been a bit breezy here today.
Part of Dauphin Island is under water; the beach road through Mississippi is awash; and the storm is pushing water inland on the “toe of the boot” of Louisiana. It is filling the entire Gulf.
I notice that both the NHC and the NWS are trying to impress people as much as possible about the potential impacts that such a large storm could bring. The Houston/Galveston NWS office hurricane warning statement says “ALL NEIGHBORHOODS…AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES…WILL BE INUNDATED DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK STORM TIDE. PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH.”
That’d work for me…
It’s the water, and if you look at the Houston area you’d see why. The bay and ship channel are going to magnify the effect of the already high surge, and there will be the rains to add to it.
Hurricane Danny stalled at the mouth of Mobile Bay in 1997 and emptied it. It was a small hurricane and only Category 1, but it sucked all of the water out of the bay.
Ike will be pushing water into the bay at Houston and up the channel.
That’s why they want all of the low areas evacuated, because they will definitely be under water.
Galveston, September 8, 1900.
The definative lesson on what can happen.
In 1928 a hurricane over Lake Okeechobee caused the death of 1800 from drowning. It’s the water, not the wind.