Ike's projected path

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http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL0908W5+gif/144313W_sm.gif

[rurallib]

1. I thought this was describing how the repukes were dissing Eisenhower.

[Lasher]

2. Looks like it will miss New Orleans. n/t

[PM7nj]

7. Yea, instead it might slam into Galveston and Houston.

[LisaL]

11. They don't know where it will hit as of yet.

This projected path is one of many possible ones.

[LisaL]

8. Who knows. Too early to tell.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Horrific. More and biggers disasters every day, but it's not global warming

I'm so sick and tired of Repukes.

[ben_meyers]

6. What are you talking about?

Every freaking storm has fizzled out this year! Where have you been hiding? Quit watching the cable news goofballs.

[KansasVoter]

9. Fizzled out???

Do you know how much flooding and damage happened in LA?? 25 people DIED in the US and there was 20 billion in damage? Learn your facts Einstein!

[Catherine Vincent]

29. The poster was being sarcastic. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

39. The glaciers are melting, there are earthquakes, sunamis, snowstorms, etc.

I was talking about the effects of the destruction of our planet.

[ben_meyers]

4. Well the experts and projections have been wrong all

season so I don't put much stock in any of it.

[kestrel91316]

16. Look, we already know you don't believe in global warming.

We're not interested in what you have to say about hurricanes, either.

[Barack_America]

5. Zeroing right in on where the bulk of oil rigs/platforms are.

Poetic justice.

[saltpoint]

10. In early September of year 1900 a hurricane likely followed a

frighteningly similar path en route to the destruction of Galveston, Texas and a loss of over 6,000 lives.

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/events/1900hurr.htm

[texanwitch]

12. I am at my friend's beach house right now near Galveston.

Been thinking about Ike.

The guy who built my house had several family members die in that 1900 hurricane.

So when he built this house he over built it for strength.

We haven't had a major hurricane hit the Houston/Galveston area since 1983.

Please Ike go away and don't bother anybody.

[saltpoint]

13. texanwitch, I'll send as many good vibes as I can muster.

I edited my post above to add the visual for the 1900 hurricane's path:

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/events/1900hurr.htm

It's still too early to say whre Ike will come to landfall but the path at the moment is eerily similar.

Stay safe. Batten down the hatches.

[ben_meyers]

17. Now that was the mother of all storms

What year was that again? I wonder what the population of the area was then.

[saltpoint]

19. I believe the population was 37,000 in 1900, when the

storm struck Galveston in the first week of September.

http://www.gthcenter.org/exhibits/storms/1900/victims/stormfaq.htm


If you have some spare change around, order the book

ISAAC'S STORM: A Man, a time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

by Erik Larson.

It's spellbinding for people who are fascinated with the power and danger of these storms. I'm a hurricane junky from a ways back and was struck by how similar a path Ike is taking to that storm.

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/events/1900hurr.htm

[ben_meyers]

20. Holey Crap! Thats like 16% of the population killed in

one storm. Over 100 years ago you say? Imagine if that were to happen today. I sure hope Ike follows the pattern and weakens too! I guess it's a good thing the media makes a lot of noise about these things, of course after Gustav some might not listen.

[saltpoint]

21. Galveston-Houston is especially vulnerable to storms.

Yes. Galveston was small by our modern population comparisons but at the time was considered "the New York of the Gulf Coast." Reportedly more millionaires lived there than almost anywhere.

Many people in charge of the newly-hatched weather service in the U.S. dismissed Cuban meteorologists' warnings about the 1900 hurricane and decided to make a beach day of it. Many town elders were urging folks to come to the beach with beach balls and go swimming, etc.

The U.S. weather service actually ordered that no comminiques be permitted from Cuba regarding hurricanes, unless it was to say that a given storm "was NOT a hurricane."

Dumb move.

[ben_meyers]

30. I just read the article you linked to

That storm blew through Chicago with 80 mph winds and continued into Canada killing 80-100 people there? Have we ever seen anything like that since, that's amazing!

[saltpoint]

31. The path of that storm was enormously long. It left a trail of death in its wake.

It was a storm not to be messed with, and the U.S. weather dismissed it as an exaggeration of over-emotional Cuban weather forecasters. They went as far as to BAN communiques from the Cubans on the storm.

But the Cubans were right.

After it smashed into Galveston (from Erik Larson's book, ISAAC'S STORM):

- - -

"...Somewhere in the heavens over Oklahoma, the storm's lingering vortex entered the great low-pressure system then moving eastward across the country. It rapidly regained power and roared north . . .

The storm brought hurricane-force winds to Chicago and Buffalo, this even after crossing America's vast midriff. It killed six loggers trying to make their way across the Eau Claire River and nearly sank a Lake Michigan steamship. It downed so many telegraph lines that communication throughout the Midwest and the northern tier of the nation came to a halt. . . . (T)he storm savaged Prince Edward Island, then burst into the North Atlantic. Manhattan, half a continent south, received winds of 65 miles per hour."

- - -

[texanwitch]

37. Galveston didn't have a seawall back then,

It was built after the hurricane, and the National Weather Service was just starting.

One of my neighbor's father was one of the lucky ones, his father and mother moved the family to a tall brick building.


They knew a bad storm was coming and took cover.

[Blue_In_AK]

22. "Wasn't that a mighty storm?"

Do you remember that song? Tom Rush, maybe?

That was a terrible hurricane in 1900. Every time I'm in Galveston, I'm reminded of it.

[saltpoint]

23. Hey there. Good to see you tonight on DU.

Yes. It's a kind of narrow barrier strand out there, and if Ike wants to, he might head straight for it.

Or not. It's so unpredictable. We have every tool the weather service in 1900 didn't have, and they didn't even use the ones they DID have very well. The Cubans tried to warn us that this was the real deal, but their voices went unheeded.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. I really do hope this fizzles out.

It's hard to imagine the uncertainty and trauma people in the hurricane zones must feel as they get hit time and time again. My wish is that all our DU friends stay safe.

[saltpoint]

28. I'll second that.

[Quixote1818]

14. I don't like Ike! nt

[kestrel91316]

15. Uhhhhh, Houston, we have a problem.........

[Dr.Phool]

18. This is in GD-P?

And that friggin hurricane can end up anywhere from the west coast of Florida to Mexico. It's too early to tell.

The wild card is a trough dropping down through the midwest right now. If it speeds up just a little, it can wind up in my driveway on the Florida coast.

[texanwitch]

36. I am in Houston,

I don't want this storm hitting anyone.

Take care be safe.

Damm I hate waiting like this, don't know what it will be like next week at this time.

[LeftyMom]

24. It's moving west. West is good.

The farther the better.

[ben_meyers]

25. Isn't west Mexico? Or is that part uninhabited?

[LeftyMom]

26. West is away from the one person I'm worried about.

Right now that's all I'm thinking about. :shrug:

[LisaL]

32. They have no clue where it's going.

It can turn.

[LeftyMom]

33. Well aren't you just a little ray of sunshine?

:eyes:

[LisaL]

34. Well, pardon me if I don't want it to go towards me.

[treestar]

35. Pardon the Mexicans who don't want it to go towards them

[LisaL]

38. You really are bright.

:eyes: