Ike

[junkjeeps]

How are ya'll making out over there in Tejas? If I can help with anything, let me know, I'm getting pretty good at hauling away trees.

Mark

 

[Patman]

Blue skys and puffy white clouds here. Got a little breezy around 10am-noon but that's about it. I know a guy that drove down yesterday to stay at a friends place. The wall went right over them so they say sustained winds of 80-90 with gusts over that.

 

[BSWIFT]

We're getting quite a bit of rain, 40 mph winds came thru around 10 pm. Real soaking type rain. Looks like I'll be mowing for another couple of months.

 

[Patman]

Looks like downtown Housto is a mess! Of course skyscrapers covered in class and hurricane winds will tend to make large piles of glass in the streets. Also looks like there is some looting which I wish had a shoot to kill on the spot order.

 

[jackflack44]

It rained all day yesterday and was windy as hell.

 

[Patman]

Wow! Just WOW!
http://kogt.smugmug.com/gallery/5953607_Nn2hu#P-1-16

 

[rpm12505]

Old News Wicked Pics

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of

 

[fatcat216]

the boston.com photos are pretty impressive. wow.

 

[Jaybird]

Ike came right over top my house...in Indiana!

80 MPH winds here. (cat1 hurricane is 72mph)
He took much of the house trim and a large number of shingles. He tore the shutters off my house, and nearly took down a 6ft privacy fence.
$1200 damage to truck, $1800 to SUV.
We were lucky and got power back after about 30 hours, and of course I have a generator, so we didn't fair too bad. Many lost a bunch of meat and food.
My grandmother (90) just got her power back on last night.
Louisville still has ~150,000 people without electricity, and had >400,000 out for a few days.

We only lost 3-4 lives due to this storm, and most of us are much more blessed than those in TX.

 

[Jaybird]

My God, those photos are absolutely heart wrenching.