San Leon,Texas Devastated by Hurricane Ike pt.3 (
txcuda)
Images taken in San Leon,Texas along Bayshore Dr.and Ave A 1/2 Tuesday afternoon. The devastation caused by Hurricane Ike is something that will take this community years to recover from. Relief crews from both the National Guard as well as the Red Cross were seen this afternoon. Quite a few residents will find that they no longer have a home when they return. Those that rode the storm out along the bayshore are fortunate to be still with us as there have been quite a few fatalities in just this small community.Electricity is weeks if not months off...and water service will be a week or more before it can be restored. Crews were out this afternoon shutting off service to meters that had no home any longer. The mosquitos are out in clouds but at least
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My heart goes out to the many many people that are suffering from Hurricane Ike in Texas as well as La. Have a nice day all!
Yes, Juan was for Halloween, because in Lafourche Parish some idiot decided to blow our levees with dynomite because his cattle was drowning and so the whole parish flooded. I went trick or treating by pirogue!!
Owned by -Pamela Adams
992 Churh St.
Gilchrist,TX
Built in 2006
Structure between house and Hwy is (was) First Baptist Church of Gilchrist
Link
Picture of church shows small piece of Yellow house w/black roof behind it.
Interesting info about Gilchrist -
Link
Includes a small picture, which if you download and enlarge does show the improved structure behind the church.
It also shows a picture of hurricane resistant home built in Gilchrist, which resembles the house in question (it is not the house because of the view underneath the house).
The house in the damage photos is in it's original location with pilings underneath the slab driven into the ground (sand).
It appears that the lot was elevated (filled) after original house in the old photos was removed or that location was formerly a natural dune.
We were told this morning that our company should have power by October 1st!! We are so excited!! That will be one month without power!!!
How reliable is the CMC regarding development? I know that the GFS is the most reliable overall, and it seems sometimes that the CMC just develops everything. You think this is a serious possibility for the East Coast?
Thanks!
aubiesgirl comment on the Mayor of Galveston was great. Hope they can get everything together as it has been to long already.
Tazmanian wishful thinking that the Hurricane season is about done. I agree, we don't need another land strike, but we still have a while to go.
FLDART1 and the pictures
And all of the other updates.
Irrespective of what Tanzaman says nature will do what nature wants, if that means a cat3 in the Gulf, so be it.
Houston people have jumped in to help as soon as possible. The Red Cross may not need more hands at this point, but other organizations do. There's a link on click2houston.com with organizations that need help!
Its been pretty reliable this year. Thats being said, I have noticed it will develop something.. then a few runs later drop it... and then it will be picked up by other models and actually happen, before the CMC picks it up again, if that made any sense?
Mm. Biohazard level 4. Yes. They have one of those off the end of Long Island. It is called "Plum Island". Google it if you like. It is purely a coincidence that Lyme disease got started just a few miles over the water in Lyme Conneticutt, not long after a strong storm blew through. Ditto West Nile.
"The Gilchrist area has a bright future being the closest oceanfront resort area to the Beaumont Port Arthur energy capital, where over 10 billion dollars in investment capital for new energy and chemical plants has been approved"
from http://www.bolivarchamber.org.
There are some really GREAT people that live here in our great state...however, the bad always outweighs the good.
Before everyone thinks I am a terrible, prejudiced, horrible person, just wanted to send a copy of the letter I sent to the Times editors and Bill O'Reilly. Please pray that Hurricane Ike will NOT come to Louisiana - I don't think I have the attitude of Christ yet!
Sherri
Dear Editor,
I am a nurse who has just completed volunteer working approximately 120 hours as the clinic director in a Hurricane Gustav evacuation shelter in Shreveport , Louisiana over the last 7 days. I would love to see someone look at the evacuee situation from a new perspective. Local and national news channels have covered the evacuation and "horrible" conditions the evacuees had to endure during Hurricane Gustav.
True - some things were not optimal for the evacuation and the shelters need some modification.
At any point, does anyone address the responsibility (or irresponsibility) of the evacuees?
Does it seem wrong that one would remember their cell phone, charger, cigarettes and lighter but forget their child's insulin?
Is something amiss when an evacuee gets off the bus, walks immediately to the medical area, and requests immediate free refills on all medicines for which they cannot provide a prescription or current bottle (most of which are narcotics)?
Isn't the system flawed when an evacuee says they cannot afford a $3 copay for a refill that will be delivered to them in the shelter yet they can take a city-provided bus to Wal-mart, buy 5 bottles of Vodka, and return to consume them secretly in the shelter?
Is it fair to stop performing luggage checks on incoming evacuees so as not to delay the registration process but endanger the volunteer staff and other persons with the very realistic truth of drugs, alcohol and weapons being brought into the shelter?
Am I less than compassionate when it frustrates me to scrub emesis from the floor near a nauseated child while his mother lies nearby, watching me work 26 hours straight, not even raising her head from the pillow to comfort her own son?
Why does it insense me to hear a man say "I ain't goin' home 'til I get my F EMA check" when I would love to just go home and see my daughters who I have only seen 3 times this week?
Is the system flawed when the privately insured patient must find a way to get to the pharmacy, fill his prescription and pay his copay while the F EMA declaration allows the uninsured person to acquire free medications under the disaster rules?
Does it seem odd that the nurse volunteering at the shelter is paying for childcare while the evacuee sits on a cot during the day as the shelter provides a "daycare"?
Have government entitlements created this mentality and am I facilitating it with my work?
Will I be a bad person, merciless nurse or poor Christian if I hesitate to work at the next shelter because I have worked for 7 days being called every curse word imaginable, feeling threatened and fearing for my personal safety in the shelter?
Exhausted and battered,
Sherri Hagerhjelm, RN
would like to publicly thank
the US Army Corps of Engineers
and the State of Texas
for their brilliant work
to protect and enhance
our beaches!"
Oh someone forget Mother Nature has a say.....
LOL!!! Indeed... it has being doing good this year... seems like is alive. After it knows something might develop it begins doubting itself and then backs out.
Not intentional for sure.
Easily the best post of the day.
The frustrating part of it is that there is no process of any kind in place that would help these folks prevent and deal with these disasters. SJ has pretty well documented that the mayor of Galveston probably could have acted with a more appropriate sense of urgency (given that alot of the bloggers here were more afraid than she was). In '05 we saw the same thing with Ray Nagin. How many times do we have to watch this tragedy played out over and over again?
See the link
The season will see a other intensity pic before November.
I'm pleased to see the majority of people not sitting here waiting for a govt bailout or blaming the govt for not coming in to help them fast enough.
Yep. Seen it before first hand. At a distribution point in Florida after the canes a few years back and this location had long lines of people waiting to get stuff. I inquired where to volunteer to help out handing out the relief packages, and got rebuffed with this fellow saying "We're not taking any more volunteers, we're all disorganized because we've got too many volunteers here already."
So being persistent, on the way out I asked a Sheriff who was directing traffic if there was a way to volunteer and help out, and he had the same attitude, gruffly waving me off with a "Sir just keep moving, we've got enough help here already."
Go figure . . .
That is how it is here, and it is so great to see your town try to build itself back up and get smiles on everyone's faces instead of waiting for someone to do it for you!!!!
As far as the CMC iam not buying it until i see some more reliable models picking up on development.CMC/NOGAPS is not enough for me.The GFS has been developing a tc of the african coast for a while no but till now i see 0 signs of it taking place.If development were to take shape out there in my view the chances are low it ever becomes a threat to the U.S.
Adrian
Please turn your tinfoil hat to SHINY SIDE OUT.
Lyme disease was first clinically described in the 1880s in Europe. In the USA, it was called tickborne meningopolyneuritis, Garin-Bujadoux syndrome, Bannworth syndrome, Afzelius syndrome, Montauk Knee or sheep tick fever.
West Nile virus was not studied in the USA until after it became endemic here.
If that entire lab was battered into pieces, releasing all the viruses, no one would be in any danger. They can't survive long outside the host, and have to be transmitted in specific ways - casual contact isn't enough. Sunlight, pH changes, and other environmental factors kill them quickly. They decay, just like other proteins.
We saw the same things at shelters in Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and North Carolina. But we also saw evacueee's rob, assault, threaten local government officals, demand that they be housed in hotels and not the free shelters, complain about the free food that was provided, they demanded 30 day supplies of meds when they were only here for less than a week, destroyed or damaged shelter equipment and facilities, stated they had no money to return home with, but were able to go out and buy booze, pot and other drugs and use them in the shelters.
At this time the convection your seeing on IR is being caused by an interaction with a upper level low and a tropical wave in the vicinity.I see no signs of a surface feature developing.The caribbean/gulf is the area to watch during the next week or two as the wet phase pushes into the area.
Hmmm...DARRT?
Wow...Yeah we were wondering the same thing. 2 Days before we were instructed to head to Houston and to bring as many people as we could find. Sounds like things are a little clustered right now.
Where were the photos of the damaged house taken?
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