tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324051.post8477512706722246819..comments2024-03-22T00:16:51.310-05:00Comments on Baldblogger: (Y)ike(s): A Hurricane in HoustonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324051.post-49812884290571747852008-09-21T22:41:00.000-05:002008-09-21T22:41:00.000-05:00Thanks deg. Power's back on and all is well. Tha...Thanks deg. Power's back on and all is well. Thanks for checking in.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13853976805605495345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324051.post-80970560013052699702008-09-21T20:29:00.000-05:002008-09-21T20:29:00.000-05:00Glad to hear y'all are safe and sound. Hope the p...Glad to hear y'all are safe and sound. Hope the power gets back on soon.DEGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12172696007825023445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324051.post-51753611544667258452008-09-15T09:09:00.000-05:002008-09-15T09:09:00.000-05:00Hey Luke, thanks for the updates. Glad you guys a...Hey Luke, thanks for the updates. Glad you guys are ok. It sounds like you have a place to stay, but you and your wife are welcome here if you need it or just need a change of scenery. Stay in touch.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13853976805605495345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13324051.post-75716931968883440832008-09-15T08:57:00.000-05:002008-09-15T08:57:00.000-05:00Phil,Thanks for posting this and thanks for the Ik...Phil,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for posting this and thanks for the Ike links. The Houston Chronicle's site (chron.com) has been first rate since before the storm started. I wasn't totally aware of those other sites.<BR/><BR/>The wind was pretty intense in this part of town. I guess theoretically we were on the "clean" side as well, but it was such a big storm. Our part of the city was pretty close to the eye wall, but never had the eye--in other words just constant heavy winds and rain from about 1:30a to 6:30/7a or so. I couldn't accurately guess on wind speed, but we were surely in the high 60s and 70s for several hours, with gusts above that (based on the KHOU radio feed I was listening to during the storm).<BR/><BR/>Our power stayed on much longer than I expected (I think it went out about 1:30a Sat.), but has not yet been restored. A neighbor's tree fell across the back of our yard/driveway and ripped the power cord and power meter off our our duplex. I think it is going to be a while before power is restored to our apt. Fortunately, some friends of ours who have power have been letting us stay with them.<BR/><BR/>Mostly, it looks like a lot of limbs are down around here (along with wind damage like your fence), but there are also a number of trees down. Rice's buildings looked fine, but there's also a lot of stuff down over there (including several new trees that had been planted in the last 18 months or so).<BR/><BR/>Having never been one of these things before, this was pretty nuts. I have no idea how some people were able to sleep through Ike. Still, whatever we experienced in Houston seems fairly minor compared to what was going on just a little further south and east.Luke Harlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02669920427097449233noreply@blogger.com