Hurricane Ike

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-10-2008, 08:48 PM

It keeps getting stronger. and moving slowly north towards galveston/houston area.

People here in Houston are already running.

Hey HORSE, I know you have a lot so your staying. What about the family?
My relatives in Tiki Island are leaving in the morning.

And how awesome, my school magically stays open....wtf... traffic is gonna be a mother

**DSM4Life** · 09-10-2008, 08:53 PM

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-10-2008, 09:17 PM

http://www.stormpulse.com/hurricane-ike-2008

**MuscleScience** · 09-10-2008, 09:19 PM

be safe and make sure you dont get any sand in your va jay jay

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-10-2008, 09:35 PM

**jethro1** · 09-10-2008, 09:46 PM

I'm in houston. It's gonna suck if we lose power, guess ill be cooking all my chicken on charcoal.

**gst528i** · 09-11-2008, 01:35 AM

Hey i'm in houston too...
You know everytime they say these storm are gonna get us, they never do.
Course i know this one is aiming for us.
But i have a feeling its not gonna be all that.
Sure this time we will get the much needed rain.
Hey big what school you go to ?

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-11-2008, 08:44 AM

They just ordered a mandatory evacuation for Galveston.

Hope everything is all right HORSE.

I go to UH main campus

**zimmy** · 09-11-2008, 08:47 AM

yah...i'm not to worried... i haven't had rain at my house for a month! I live in sugarland so it's not as bad. Hope everyone's safe...

**HORSE~** · 09-11-2008, 09:10 AM

Thanks for the well wishes Bigxlx and back at you and all my other H-Town Bro's....

I am actually in Laporte, just a few miles from Sylvan beach they already have a mandatory evacuation here...

I'm working on getting the family out as we speak, once there gone I am going down to the bay to see what things are looking like, then I'll be checking back here to see whats going on....

Stay safe guy's and GOD BLESS!!!!

**JiGGaMaN** · 09-11-2008, 11:42 AM

I have an extra room here in canada. We never get hurricanes here (except chicken wings from the restaurant hurricanes).

**gst528i** · 09-11-2008, 01:11 PM

For houston here'a a new thing by abc to track your neighborhood by street or zipcode..

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/feature?...ane&id=6381857

im gonna go riding tomorrow, ghost town = speeds over 140mph ..yea ..

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-11-2008, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by gst528i

For houston here'a a new thing by abc to track your neighborhood by street or zipcode..

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/feature?...ane&id=6381857

im gonna go riding tomorrow, ghost town = speeds over 140mph ..yea ..

haha, Im actually going to galveston with some friends

**Skully44420** · 09-11-2008, 01:50 PM

stay safe guys and good luck

**gixxerboy1** · 09-11-2008, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by xlxBigSexyxlx

haha, Im actually going to galveston with some friends

run forest run

**j4ever41** · 09-11-2008, 02:40 PM

Im right here in h-town too, yeah suck big time if we lose eletricity for to long,good luck bro's and be safe.

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-11-2008, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by j4ever41

Im right here in h-town too, yeah suck big time if we lose eletricity for to long,good luck bro's and be safe.

yeah, thats the thing I hate most. Not having power.

I just tried getting gas, and they were out...lol went to 3 different places too

**gst528i** · 09-11-2008, 05:39 PM

GoTO NEIGHBOUR HOOD THAT ARE POOR. THEY HAVE GAS....Not the ones of 59 or hwy6.... but like of beltway8 and gessner.

***Pheedno*** · 09-11-2008, 09:04 PM

I'm in friendwood and going back and forth to Seabrook. This thing is going to hit east of us so it's not going to be as bad as the media is hyping it. I've been tracking this sucker on stormpulse and weatherunderground.com for 18hrs. The speed is increasing which is a good thing, the pressure is rising which is a good thing, and the GDP track has moved over 50miles east in the last 10hours. The winds at the low levels are cat 1, the winds at the high levels of the storm are cat 2-3 which is why they are getting the cat 2 average.
The only bad thing I can tell right now which is eminate is that fact that this storm is pushing 50% more water than Katrina did. If it hits Galveston bay head on, the storm surge in the mnadatory areas will probably be 5-7ft higher than the bay itself. A surge above 12ft in the bay will probably mean all of the mandatories will be under wit the addition to the rain. Slightly east and the surge in the mandatories drops dramatically below the bay surge.

I'll update you guys as I get more info. I dont own a TV and was actually quite suprised at exactly how much the scare tactics are being used on the news stations to kepp folks tuned in. Granted, I do understand the sense of urgency needed to evacuate the high risk areas, but almost all signs point to this thing decreasing in risk so far and the TV news rooms were saying the exact opposite. I even saw on station pointing to the increased travel speed of the storm as a bad thing, when it's exactly the opposite.

Good luck to everyone incase the scenario worsens. Best wishes to your families.

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-11-2008, 11:53 PM

Im watching breaking news in galveston on cnn right now.

"people who ignore evacuation orders face certain death"

wow...

Its suppose to be a cat 3, but isnt right now, 130 mph winds, and a 16-22 ft storm surge

Or so the news is saying...

the media is loving this shit

**gst528i** · 09-12-2008, 12:31 AM

I doubt we will even get get a cat 1 by the time it hits houston, probably just a depression....
Either way i'm gonna take the bimmer or the spyder on beltway 8 no toll ftw

Anyone want pics Houston becoming a Ghost town while i drive really really fast ... i think that is the most exiting thing ,,,,having my very own autobahn

**J-Dogg** · 09-12-2008, 11:18 AM

I'd stick it out and loot everything I could.

But that's just me.

**Reed** · 09-12-2008, 11:37 AM

That is one big ass storm. Good luck to all the people in the area. Kevin Nash, I mean BigSexy I hope you don't get washed out to sea

**No One Knows** · 09-12-2008, 11:44 AM

I just stayed in my house in NOLA for Gustav. I didn't leave for katrina and since Im in the mid of a cycle I wasn't evacuating for a whole weekd spending 12 hours in a car.

I have up to 110 lb dumbbells at my house, a bench with 600lbs of plates, and a station with cable machines. I had a generator running a window ac unit and small fridge/freezer for when the power went out and I cooked all my shit on a small charcoal grill. If i wasn't on cycle I might have evacuated. fvck em all

**wascaptain5214** · 09-12-2008, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by J-Dogg

I'd stick it out and loot everything I could.

But that's just me.

you loot, we shoot
and thats not just me

**Red Ketchup** · 09-12-2008, 01:16 PM

Good luck to everyone down in TX, this storm looks like it's massive...

Red

**gst528i** · 09-12-2008, 01:21 PM

Galveston is getting pounded and it hasn't even yet reached to the coast..

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-12-2008, 01:47 PM

yeah, Ike covers over 80% of the gulf.

People are already stranded/flooded in Galveston and it hasn't even started raining or anything.

Well, my house is as good as its gonna get, so just hope for the best...

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-12-2008, 01:50 PM

**gst528i** · 09-12-2008, 02:10 PM

^^^^6 thought you were in galveston, So ur house is there or here in houston ..

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-12-2008, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by gst528i

^^^^6 thought you were in galveston, So ur house is there or here in houston ..

Im here in Houston

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-12-2008, 02:16 PM

the media just said Galveston is going to be "wiped off the map"

and 40% of the population stayed in Galveston. And media is saying people will die basically.

Yes, its "just as cat 2", but its freakn' massive and the storm surge is gonna be crazy. The water is already at the top of the sea wall.

**gixxerboy1** · 09-12-2008, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by xlxBigSexyxlx

the media just said Galveston is going to be "wiped off the map"

and 40% of the population stayed in Galveston. And media is saying people will die basically.

Yes, its "just as cat 2", but its freakn' massive and the storm surge is gonna be crazy. The water is already at the top of the sea wall.

i heard if you have a 1 or 2 story home and stay you will die 100%

**abbot138** · 09-12-2008, 02:40 PM

Originally Posted by DSM4Life

This just made my day, cant stop laughing...... Good luck and God bless to all the Houston area peeps.

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-12-2008, 02:49 PM

Originally Posted by gixxerboy1

i heard if you have a 1 or 2 story home and stay you will die 100%

man, the media is eating this up..

nom nom nom nom nom

they make it seem ev1 is already dead

**j4ever41** · 09-12-2008, 02:59 PM

i cant beleive that 40% of people did not get out of galveston WTF? galveston started showing signs of flooding this morn around 0700,so yeah whether it cat 1,2 or 3 it dont matter, its bringing a hell of alot of water.

**gst528i** · 09-12-2008, 03:07 PM

Yea, i would leave too, but u have to understand how people feared the traffic where alot of people died last time.
The only reason traffic went okay this time is because most of houston did not evacuate so the traffic of galveston can flow free through out of houston..

**xlxBigSexyxlx** · 09-12-2008, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by gst528i

Yea, i would leave too, but u have to understand how people feared the traffic where alot of people died last time.
The only reason traffic went okay this time is because most of houston did not evacuate so the traffic of galveston can flow free through out of houston..

true that.

seemed like more people died trying to evacuate last time, then the actual storm itself....

**j4ever41** · 09-12-2008, 03:14 PM

yeah i understand the traffic thing,last time that was a big cluster but they could have kept up with traffic reports and got tha hell out. one guy was quoted on the news this morning saying he was going to get out when he felt the time was right,WHAT.

**gixxerboy1** · 09-12-2008, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by j4ever41

yeah i understand the traffic thing,last time that was a big cluster but they could have kept up with traffic reports and got tha hell out. one guy was quoted on the news this morning saying he was going to get out when he felt the time was right,WHAT.

when is that? when you need a snorkel mask in your living room?