Even though it is 200 miles away Mark Schleifstein of The Times-Picayune reports on the flooding in eastern Louisiana: Hurricane Ike surge breaches, overtops some levees, floods homes, roadways across state.
Ike doesn’t have the high winds of a Category 5, but it is coming at the coast like a D11 Cat pushing the Gulf of Mexico in front of it.
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Scary stuff, made worse by the sheer breadth of Ike. It seems unfair that NOLA should be suffering even when the storm is pointed at Houston. Dog knows they’ve suffered enough.
At midnight, it’s finally grown a bit noisy outside; the gusts sound about 50 mph to me. (Sorry, I still think in mph.) There’s no serious rain yet, though we’re told it’s on its way. The power flickers occasionally, and we’ve heard a few transformers blow.
Galveston is suffering terribly. A lot of people are going to have little if anything to come back to, and those who stayed may die for their decision. Even Houston will get worse than we anticipated as recently as this afternoon, though so far we have nothing to complain about compared to people closer to the coast, or in the southeast part of Harris County, who are vulnerable to the storm surge. (There went another transformer. Time to send this before I can’t send this…)
Somehow I doubt I’ll sleep much tonight.
I still think in miles, feet, and inches after working in the metric system in the military for years. I started adding the UTC and metric measures because I was getting so many international hits, and the Weather Service provides both.
The winds are in Houston, but the whole Northwest corner of the Gulf is affected.
It finally established an eye, but like everything else with this storm, it is supersized – 45 miles across. It will take three hours to pass over a point at the storm’s current speed.
Galveston inside the seawall is going to be a swimming pool as it was already being overtopped and the high tide isn’t until 2AM.
Stay safe and let’s know when you can.
About 1:00 am CT: I’m updating from Stella’s computer, posting the updates on the YDD comment thread. Frequent power blips, loud wind, etc. The eyewall has just reached Galveston. So far, so good at our location, but I’m worried about my cousins in Baytown. Houston downtown is just beginning to get hurricane-force gusts. Mainly just checking in. Better post this while I can…