You can watch live web feeds of 4 Houston TV stations covering Hurricane Ike at http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/ike.html
Reporters I can understand. The woman there on the seawall with her two small kids, looking to see what is going on, not so much. She doesn't want to leave her house, so she's exposing her kids to this. Aaaargh!
Friday, September 12, 2008
Galveston in the bulls-eye
Dr. Jeff Masters over at Weather Underground says "Storm surge heights of 20-25 feet are possible from Galveston northwards to the Louisiana border."
A 20-foot surge could make the island totally disappear (see this spooky animation created in 2005 when Rita came through, showing what a 20-foot surge would do to Galveston), so this looks to be bad. Like REALLY bad. Like Katrina-like bad. I hope I'm wrong...
A 20-foot surge could make the island totally disappear (see this spooky animation created in 2005 when Rita came through, showing what a 20-foot surge would do to Galveston), so this looks to be bad. Like REALLY bad. Like Katrina-like bad. I hope I'm wrong...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Large Hadron Rap
To satisfy all of our advanced-particle-physics-rap urges (although I think MC 900-foot Jesus did this song already in about 1988):
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Heads up, Corpus Christi
I lived in Corpus Christi for about 3 years in the mid-1990s. It's a nice town. I hope they come through this okay, but they look to be on the "bad" side of the storm if it follows this track. There isn't a whole lot of population on the coast between Corpus Christi and Harlingen/Brownsville to the south, so if it does come in there hopefully they won't get too badly hit. Good luck y'all!
Friday, September 5, 2008
Thank you, Dr. Morale....
I usually like reading Dr. Jeff Masters WunderBlog over at Weather Underground. He really seems to know his stuff and he gives it to us straight. But then I read this about Hurricane Ike:
"Overall, I'd give the Gulf Coast a 70% chance of getting hit (including the west coast of Florida)."
Gee, thanks doc. Not his fault, of course, and he's giving it his best estimation, but considering we just got through with Fay and Gustav, I think I'm about ready for someone to just start lying to me and tell me everything is going to be okay...
"Overall, I'd give the Gulf Coast a 70% chance of getting hit (including the west coast of Florida)."
Gee, thanks doc. Not his fault, of course, and he's giving it his best estimation, but considering we just got through with Fay and Gustav, I think I'm about ready for someone to just start lying to me and tell me everything is going to be okay...
Ike Ike Ike
"Ike." It draws varying images to mind. "I like Ike" bumper stickers (which I'm too young to really remember). The smiling, balding face gazing placidly down from the principal's wall as the gym teacher suggests calling in a sketch artist to draw the offending student's dingus from the shower scene in "Porky's." A young (but already creepy) Richard Nixon. The cold war.
Perhaps a Cockney quarterback (think about it...).
But it looks like "Ike" may soon mean something totally different to folks in these parts. I'm NOT liking the look of this:
Perhaps a Cockney quarterback (think about it...).
But it looks like "Ike" may soon mean something totally different to folks in these parts. I'm NOT liking the look of this:
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