Thanks for spelling correct.

I am watching the waves already tearing Galveston up, so not really watching
the fat fingers.

This thing [IKE] has really grown and widened. Police where knocking on
doors at 3AM in the morning in Bridge City, Orange, Port Arthur, Port Neches,
Groves and Beaumont. One of the umpires just called, had intented on
staying, said he is headed for La.
Yea, right.

Just watching Channel 2 out of Houston online, and it really looks like this one is going to be a doozy. Galveston already has some flooding, and we are still 12 or more hours away from projected landfall.

Batton down the hatches!

Oh...and for those elsewhere in the world who want to watch:http://www.click2houston.com/video/10903347/index.html

I was thinking the same thing. And as a long-time resident of the TX Panhandle, I do NOT understand all the hubbub about the wind.

(For those not familiar with TX Panhandle, the constant wind makes THE tree bend toward the NE.)

As long as no HS football games get cancelled, things will be just fine. :eek:

Maybe we are just old school. The tournament I was supposed to be working in North Texas was cancelled yesterday, and I have yet to see a measurable amount of rain.

Yeah, but this is Ike and we all know how Ike just couldn't help to beat up on his woman. :D

Are you calling TX a woman? Dem's fightin' words...

Please note the names of the storms cited ;)

well, we made it through (my hair has that nice wind blown look!! :eek: )..... I wonder how bad the ball fields in lake charles, westlake, moss bluff and beaumont got tore up? and I still havent heard back from Rodney if the camp in houston was still gonna make.

Cajun Blue

What Rodney are you referring to in Houston? Is he an umpire? I might know who you are referring to> Any chance his last name begins with S?

Ron

I can't even imagine what you guys must be going through down there or the magnitude of that storm at landfall. I'm a thousand miles away from where Ike hit Texas and we got walloped yesterday!

The remnants of Ike blew through Ohio yesterday and the winds still packed a punch. 80 m.p.h. gusts knocked out power to a half-million customers, ripped off roofs and downed tress throughout the area. And the center of the storm was a couple hundred miles north of us!

My yard is littered with debris and fallen branches. Sections of my neighbors six foot wooden fence were knocked down and a gate was ripped away from my fence.

Surprisingly, we were far enough away from the center that little rain fell- just a few sprinkles. It isn't uncommon for hurricanes to come inland, then stall out over the midwest, staying in one place and dumping rain for several days.

Nope... it begins with a R I got to call on the same complex with him and his wife in Florida this summer.

OK,

I am back. Elec came back 7:00 am today.

Three trees down, nothing major to the new house. Had to replace two
sheets of the metal roofing, and a piece of my fireplace chimmey.

Got almost all the trees in front cleaned up, so things picking up.

MRE's have improved since I was in the military.

Hope everyone else got through IKE OK.

He was referring to Roth, but by now sure that has been clarified.

Good to hear you made it through better than the last time.

I guess you are now gonna use those three trees and build another room?

Hope all get back to normal soon.

MRE's? What about C-Rats?

Glad you're OK!