Riden the storm out!!! Live from Clear Lake Texas

[Got the Bug]

Madmaxx said he was at 24'...hoping that he rode it out fine.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap_on_re_us/ike

"Officials were encouraged to learn that the storm surge topped out at only 15 feet — far lower than the catastrophic 20-to-25 foot wall of water forecasters had feared."

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slides...75ed494aa5049/

[Ron61]

I hope that all of you made it through that mess ok. Nice to see that it wasn't as bad as they had feared it would be but not much comfort to those who did lose their homes and everything. The lower than expected storm surge helped a lot with the less damage.

Ron

[Tugboat]

Guys,

I live in North East Houston and in Houston Alone 2 million are without power.
I made it thru with just loss of a gutter, couple of limbs, electricity and consider myself lucky. Several houses around me have new sky lights. (tree made) One of the wierdest is a trampoline wrapped around a tree about 20 feet high. We are on generator and except for it being muggy and sort of hot we are fine. I do have the cobra on a lift and will drain gas for gen. if needed. I to am worried about our brothers in cobras from down south of me. Tony has posted on club cobra houston he is fine like me. Pat and Kinton and especially Kelly are in a pretty bad area. Hope they are well.

Winds hit us about 9 pm friday and they were gusting later to about 90 mph. We were able to cat nap (believe that or not) thru this but we all woke up about 5:15 to dead silence. We were directly under the eye. Really cool!!!!!! But they were right, the nastiest part is the back side. WOW, it was at least day light as the worst part hit which helped. Woke up this morning to a terrible thunder storm that dumped another couple of inches of rain, just what we needed.

Thanks for the thoughts, I will try to check in later today.

[gsharapa]

Our prayers are with all that were in harms way. Have many friends in that area.

I wonder how the Battle Ship Texas took the storm as it looks like those areas also got hit pretty hard?

[Ron61]

Hopefully they can get the power back to some of the less hard hit places and a few more can start posting about how things are. I heard them announce this morning that one pipeline was now working but didn't hear what refinery it was from.

Ron