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Dinsdale wrote:So... 50MPH gusts and heavy rains cause this level of "disaster"?

Where was it only 50 mph? Houston got hit by 100-110 mph winds.

.m2 wrote:

BSmack wrote:m2,

Houston is 13 feet above sea level. If a 20 foot storm surge comes up Galveston Bay, how is it that Houston is not affected?

It won't.

See me tomorrow.

Then I'll tell you why it didn't happen.

It's rather simple...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Experts say Hurricane Ike's storm surges are less severe than originally predicted and the worst is probably over.

Hydrologist Benton McGee from the U.S. Geological Survey says the highest storm surge will probably remain 13.5 feet at Sabine Pass in Texas.

He says a 5-foot storm surge was recorded in the Houston area. Now the big concern is inland flooding.

The surge at Galveston, where Ike made landfall, was about 11 feet.

Forecasters had predicted a surge of up to 25 feet. That would've been the highest in recorded history in Texas — above 1961's Hurricane Carla, which brought a 22-foot wall of water.

Go ahead and explain why it didn't happen, Mr. Cal Nobel Climatologist.

RumpleForeskin wrote:Okay, I am into my 6th beer for the evening and pretty soon will be taking some bull blaster shots.

I love being drink errr drunk and standing outside in 50+ mph gusts.

Nice job teeing it up for CD.

Got power here at the office. But our nighborhood and the surrounding area are without power and are damaged quite a bit. Fucking trees down everywhere. I will keep you informed.

Glad to know you're among the walking, Rumps.

Any damage to your home?

poptart wrote:Glad to know you're among the walking, Rumps.

Any damage to your home?

I'm sure it's no more than after a night of merriment with rumplewife.

Darwin failed!

He could have taken out a fool drunk with 100MPH shrapnel while his pontoon of a wife choked to death while trying to absorb his corpse into her body.

I hate Darwin.

suckinia wrote:

Feel free to STFU, moron.

All of you in the Ike zone, take care of yourselves.

Good luck and God Bless.

Diogenes wrote:SPAM, SPAM, SPAM


I think I have gotten over because I pretend to give a shit about anonymous fags on a message board.






Hold on. I have something important to say.






SPAM, SPAM, SPAM.

Smacking a bitch, who prides himself in getting drunk during a hurricane while his wife is probably hyperventilating over the thought of the potential rationing of food, does not make one a bad person. It makes Darwin a impotent bitch for the fact that said bitch is still able to post.

stuckinia wrote:

There is a time and a place for everything, dumbhuck

And this is a good time and place for you to just STFU.

Diogenes wrote:There is a time and a place for everything, dumbhuck

And this is a good time and place for you to just STFU.

The clever empty quote trick I see.

Of course there is a time and place for everything...especially if it is inundated with your shitty spam. You do not give a shit about these people you shaky-handed fuck. You just cannot pass up an opportunity to boldly express your worthless spam where no cunt has spammed before.

stuckinia wrote:

Diogenes wrote:There is a time and a place for everything, dumbhuck

And this is a good time and place for you to just STFU.

You do not give a shit about these people you shaky-handed fuck. You just cannot pass up an opportunity to boldly express your worthless spam where no cunt has spammed before.

Actually I do.

I wish all is well for those stuckinsomethingevenworsethanla, no matter their political persuasion ar shitty teams.

Good luck to you all. And take care.





And EAD when all this is over.

Diogenes wrote:Actually I do.

I wish all is well for those stuckinsomethingevenworsethanla, no matter their political persuasion ar shitty teams.

Good luck to you all. And take care.





And EAD when all this is over.

Choke on a flaccid cock you self righteous douche. You can shove your Gandhi act straight up your ass, whisper sweet nothings in its ear, and kiss it goodnight.

Wow why don't some of you clean it up a little bit? There's been a real live disaster here. My heart goes out to all who have to suffer or even die from this tragedy. My thoughts and prayers go out to you. Mother nature is beautiful and wonderous but also can strike hard. Most of it is due to man's overinvolvment and poor management of the earth. But I'll leave those comments for another thread sometime. I just wanted to express my grief. Best wishes.

Have a nice Sunday!

Dinsdale wrote: Uhm... not a whole fuckload of people living on the sides of volcanoes. And newsflash -- you get a fuckload more warning that a volcano is going to blow than a hurricane coming.

Yet you still don't move, and just expect everyone else to pay for your stupidity.

You know how many people live on or around Mt St Helens these days? I'll give you a hint -- it's ZERO.

See, 28 years ago, there were 57 people living/working/existing there. They died. So guess what?

People didn't move back there because it's dangerous. And you wonder why Darwin is so much more cruel to people in certain areas... certain areas that have rightfully earned their reputation as being rife with raging dumbfucks.

Sincerely,

Dan Vogel wrote:Wow why don't some of you clean it up a little bit? There's been a real live disaster here. My heart goes out to all who have to suffer or even die from this tragedy. My thoughts and prayers go out to you. Mother nature is beautiful and wonderous but also can strike hard. Most of it is due to man's overinvolvment and poor management of the earth. But I'll leave those comments for another thread sometime. I just wanted to express my grief. Best wishes.

Have a nice Sunday!

Go fuck yourself.

Phew, what a couple of days. Props to whatever crew restored my power in less than 48 hours. Pretty much a sleepless night the night of the storm. Last night wasn't much better as we had a bitch of a thunderstorm. The house was already hot and humid so we had to close up the windows again. I pretty much haven't slept since Thursday.



^ The big pine tree on the right of the picture snapped and fell, thankfully, across my neighbor's driveway and into the street (insert SUV grass clipping jokes at your leisure). Sounded like a shotgun blast going off when that thing snapped.



^ The bigger pine in my neighbor's yard in the right side of this pic (only a couple of feet from my fence) also snapped and fell between our two yards. It hit the corner of their house and ripped a hole above their kitchen/breakfast nook. The bigger issue was the tree branch that punctured right through their roof allowing two days of rainfall to seep all through their house. They easily have $30,000 of damage if not more. Spent the morning helping him patch the roof the best we could. We then chainsawed and cleared my tree out of the street and their driveway.

We were very lucky that both those trees didn't fall on our house. Mail boxes and satellite dishes flying all around. Mine didn't budge. Watching TV right now.

Best of luck to the rest of you still dealing with this mess. Just now seeing images of Galveston and downtown Houston.

BTW - air conditioning is by far the greatest invention of all-time.

My sister left her apartment near downtown Houston and stayed with a group of friends while Ike rolled on through. Everyone's safe from what I hear and nothing happened to her apartment either. Sounds like they'll be without power for quite a while but she'll be coming up my way this week and she'll be traveling for work the couple weeks so she won't have to worry about the inconvenience.

Meanwhile up here...on Saturday, we had a brief tornado touchdown northeast of where I'm at and it's been raining like crazy up here since Friday. I've got a seawall at the end my property and the lake is usually a foot below the top of the wall. The rain has probably brought up the lake level to near the top of that wall and I'd imagine I'll have some standing water going into my backyard sometime later this evening. Several of my neighbor's docks are close to being totally underwater. I've never seen the lake at this point since I've moved out here 3 years ago. Ike is kicking our ass up here.

.m2 wrote:

Jsc810 wrote:Rita hit close to where Ike will hit. Rita was big, Ike is bigger.

This is Rita's storm surge. So yes, the Gulf of Mexico will be in Houston shortly.

No it won't... you idiot.

Please, tell us how this will occur.

I'll be back tomorrow when the storm surge had no effect on the city of Houston.

paging mtool on the white dumbshit phone:


Photo Quote:

Bystanders stop to look at flooding along Interstate 10 near downtown Houston

"People look on as vehicles drive through roads flooded after Hurricane Ike,Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008 in Houston, Texas"

"A boat sits submerged in the waters of Clear Lake near the Johnson Space Center where it sank due to the storm surge and winds of Hurricane Ike in Houston September 13, 2008."

A tool you are, a tool you shall always be.

Thanks for that pic.

My office is on E. TC Jester about two miles from where that picture was taken. White Oak Bayou runs next to my office and splits East and West TC Jester.

Rack Fu wrote:^ The big pine tree on the right of the picture...

Oh, now you've done it.

We've got a bit of roof damage, tree damage, and small portion of our fence is down. My in-laws have a forest laying down in their backyard and my buddy's truck took a pine tree to the bed. Looks really fucking bad. We are still without power, so Mrs. Rumps and I packed everything up and drove west to stay few days in my mom's farmhouse here in Bastrop. Just gonna chill in the pool and drink some beers until power returns back in our community.

Much damage in the hood. Our house came thru very well. Two broken windows and a few shingles gone from the roof. Here are a few pics from around the hood. All are within a 2 minute walk from our house as we can't drive anywhere for all the downed trees. No power and not sure when it will be back on. I am posting from my wife's temporary office in a mobile command post. Thoughts and prayers to those who didn't fare as well as us.

Bar during storm as we are in Master Bath






One of 10 trees blocking my street


Next door neighbors house




Street signs 2 miles from their rightful place


Neighbors Car

Glad to hear you're ok, Lefty.

Dan Vogel wrote:Wow why don't some of you clean it up a little bit? There's been a real live disaster here.

Dan bringing the smack

Ike made it up this way, as those watching the Steelers/Browns game can attest.

Wind has been high here, there's a tree across the road in the next block...

Ken wrote:

Rack Fu wrote:^ The big pine tree on the right of the picture...

Oh, now you've done it.

Let me clarify. By "big" I didn't mean big like the dozen sequoias that Dins undoubtedly has in his backyard, but "big" in relation to the other trees in the pictures.

88 wrote:Good to see the Texas crew made it through the storm. Hope you get your power on and lives back to normal soon.

Same wishes for a quick return to normal from the Missouri contingent

Glad everyone posting here made it relatively unscathed. I may be heading down that way this week to help in the recovery effort. I volunteered last week to represent American Telephone and Telegraph. Just waiting to here my orders.

stuckinia wrote:

Diogenes wrote:Actually I do.

I wish all is well for those stuckinsomethingevenworsethanla, no matter their political persuasion ar shitty teams.

Good luck to you all. And take care.





And EAD when all this is over.

Choke on a flaccid cock you self righteous douche. You can shove your Gandhi act straight up your ass, whisper sweet nothings in its ear, and kiss it goodnight.

Please quit quoting Diaphanous. It totally defeats the ignore feature.

PSUFAN wrote:Ike made it up this way, as those watching the Steelers/Browns game can attest.

Wind has been high here, there's a tree across the road in the next block...

Soon after I posted this, our power went out. It's still out...hoping it is restored at some point today. It's great to have a lot of old trees in the city, but they have a tendency to fall on power lines...

Ike (or what was left of it, anyway) came through here late last night. Usually we get more rain than wind from these, but this was the exception. A few tree limbs down, although almost all small ones and not nearly as bad as some of the pics I saw in this thread from Texas. I spent a good part of the morning clearing my driveway so we could get out.

Biggest complaint: I have a bit of a sore throat this morning, since the high temp was 91 yesterday afternoon and Ike's winds knocked the overnight low down into the 40's. That's not nearly as bad as what the people in Texas have to deal with, though.

Uncle Fester wrote:Sincerely,

Not sure what Mt Rainier has to do with Mt St Helens, but...

A lahar running down Rainier and wiping out Tacoma wouldn't be a tragedy... it would be a celebration.

Left Seater wrote:

Uh-oh. Looks like a severe lack of square headed screws in the construction.

R-Jack wrote: I'm thinking the biggest hazard to your family is not the hurricane but the fucking one step seperating your back door and your pool. Goddamn that looks close. I hope that is a wierd camera angle, especially if you have young kids.

It might be a bit of a weird camera angle but it is pretty darn close to the house. I have a utility easement that eats up half my backyard. In order to maximize the size of the pool, it had to be close to the house. Otherwise, our pool would be the size of a bathtub. The distance from the back door to water is about 7'. It's about 4' in the other spots. There's a Katch-A-Kid safety net that is normally on the pool that was removed for the storm. My three year old also knows how to swim already.

Gotta do what you gotta do.

Still no power and now we are being asked not to flush the toilet. Since the treatment plant doesn't have power, nor do the lift stations to move the waste to the treatment plant, things are getting nasty. The Community association is bringing in those nice portable bathrooms that they roll up to PGA events and the like and staging them around the hood.

Thankfully the temps are down and it is not to bad with the windows open and a little breeze. Fuel is an issue as many stations have it but don't have the power to pump it.

Still sending messages from my wife's company's mobile command post. They have a section set up that is for insureds to use computers to send and recieve email and to charge cell phones, etc.

Mister Bushice wrote:

.m2 wrote:

Jsc810 wrote:Rita hit close to where Ike will hit. Rita was big, Ike is bigger.

This is Rita's storm surge. So yes, the Gulf of Mexico will be in Houston shortly.

No it won't... you idiot.

Please, tell us how this will occur.

I'll be back tomorrow when the storm surge had no effect on the city of Houston.

paging mtool on the white dumbshit phone:

That place floods during a heavy thunderstorm... you idiot.

As I said, there would be NO storm surge in Houston.... and the Gulf of Mexico would not end up in Houston.

I didn't want to take JSC810's money.... that guy has too many issues and doesn't need to be giving the truth all his money.

Tropical storm "Alica" still did a hell of a lot more damage than this "Hurricane" did to Houston.


Good luck getting things back to normal in Houston. Houston has some of the best people of any city.

It was Tropical Storm Allison, m2, but I know what you meant. I have been down to the south side of town and the damage is severe. Trees freaking everywhere.
Surge did not get into Houston but in all of the areas around the bay and the ship channel
You are right about that picture. Especially since that flooding occurred due to the cold front pile-on from sunday morning. Not the Cane.

Papa Willie wrote:

rozy wrote:It was Tropical Storm Allison, m2, but I know what you meant. I have been down to the south side of town and the damage is severe. Trees freaking everywhere.
Surge did not get into Houston but in all of the areas around the bay and the ship channel
You are right about that picture. Especially since that flooding occurred due to the cold front pile-on from sunday morning. Not the Cane.

Hope you made it through okay, dude....

We are okay. Small part of fence down, couple of shingles gone, power was out for only 14 hours. Thanks, bro...

South side of town looks like a war zone.

WTF happened to that dude in the picture JSC posted ? Is he fish food, was that his grand exit or what ?



Glad to hear Texas clones are safe and relatively unscathed by Ike.

Buddy of mine said he saw a sign on the news that said "Go Away Ike, Tina ain't here". Had to be rozy or one of the other clones down there.