Feast or Famine - Hurricane Ike
9/10/08 - 3rd Day - Midday. I was not intending to blog for a few days because I want as many people as possible to read the latest article on Separation. But Hurricane Ike is heading our way, and we here in Texas will need your prayers.
Devastation seems to be heading towards the state of Texas in the form of Hurricane Ike. Mandatory evacuations of the Texas coast will be beginning most likely later today, as prognosticators are calling for a possible Category 4 hurricane to hit the Texas Coast sometime early Saturday.
ALERT TO OUR TEXAS COAST FRIENDS... GET OUT. Don't mess around with this one. I respectively ask you all to read Dr. Jeff Masters Blog over at Wunderground.com. Dr. Masters is no alarmist, and he is calling for likely the most deadly and devastating storm to hit our coast in 40 years, with a possible 15-23 foot storm surge over a 100 mile stretch of the Texas Coast. Coasties ought to be afraid, be very afraid. Texans are not Floridians. We're not used to this. Remember, when it rains in other places, people get wet, but when it rains in Texas, people die. In this regard, Texas is much like Haiti.
Ok so here is the news for us near here:
Prognosticators are calling for Ike to still be a category 1 near San Antonio, and a Tropical Storm over us on Sunday morning. Normally, these storms are down to just rain, or at best a Tropical Depression by the time they reach us, but we are in the center of the cone for Sunday Morning as a Tropical Storm. Now, after a drought year, we have received over 10 inches of rain in the last two weeks, and the ground is saturated, the catchwaters are full, and the creek is full. Lord willing, we will not get a 100 year flood over this.
Y'all keep scrolling down and make sure to read the Separation article, and vote in the last phase of the Bunky Awards. I'll try to update y'all soon.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
Devastation seems to be heading towards the state of Texas in the form of Hurricane Ike. Mandatory evacuations of the Texas coast will be beginning most likely later today, as prognosticators are calling for a possible Category 4 hurricane to hit the Texas Coast sometime early Saturday.
ALERT TO OUR TEXAS COAST FRIENDS... GET OUT. Don't mess around with this one. I respectively ask you all to read Dr. Jeff Masters Blog over at Wunderground.com. Dr. Masters is no alarmist, and he is calling for likely the most deadly and devastating storm to hit our coast in 40 years, with a possible 15-23 foot storm surge over a 100 mile stretch of the Texas Coast. Coasties ought to be afraid, be very afraid. Texans are not Floridians. We're not used to this. Remember, when it rains in other places, people get wet, but when it rains in Texas, people die. In this regard, Texas is much like Haiti.
Ok so here is the news for us near here:
Prognosticators are calling for Ike to still be a category 1 near San Antonio, and a Tropical Storm over us on Sunday morning. Normally, these storms are down to just rain, or at best a Tropical Depression by the time they reach us, but we are in the center of the cone for Sunday Morning as a Tropical Storm. Now, after a drought year, we have received over 10 inches of rain in the last two weeks, and the ground is saturated, the catchwaters are full, and the creek is full. Lord willing, we will not get a 100 year flood over this.
Y'all keep scrolling down and make sure to read the Separation article, and vote in the last phase of the Bunky Awards. I'll try to update y'all soon.
Your servant in Christ Jesus,
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 9/10/2008 10:45:00 AM
6 Comments:
Will be praying for y'all!
I remember my Dad's aunt and uncle losing their Port O'Conner, Texas beach house to a huge one, "Camille", in 69,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Camille
and I guess before that in 61 (to young to recall that one), "Carla" did the same, but they rebuilt both times.
They lived in Victoria, so they didn't have to evacuate. Anyway, again, we'll be praying for y'all!
Bill
Yes, will keep all there in prayer, as well as coastline friends. May warnings be urgent enough to make people in the path respond appropriately. Thanks for this update.
Well, as of 6:50 tonight (Wed. night) things are looking a bit better for us, and worse for the coast. Ike is a cat. 2, and is projected to be a cat. 4 at landfall. Unhappily, the landfall target seems to be moving eastward closer to Houston and several million people. The latest projects has Ike still as a cat. 2 when it is all the way up to Austin! As a result, it is possible this will go farther east, and we may only get some rain out of it. We'll see.
Michael
You, your family and the community you are a part will will be in our thoughts and our prayers...
Jon from Boise Idaho
Man, that monster is filling the Gulf! Following it this morning on CNN. Not looking good for Galvaston, and they're saying as of right now (Friday morning)there's still 20,000 people still there....could be alot of deaths.
Bill
They also just said that Houston could get hit with hurricane force winds for 12 hours!
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