Oh, yeah, she'd be sleeping through that :laugh3: I'm so stupid.

 

Doesn't look pretty.

just got a text from Angie

 

she says its BAD! 100 mph winds and its pitch black

 

 

NOT GOOD:(

just got a text from Angie

 

she says its BAD! 100 mph winds and its pitch black

 

 

NOT GOOD:(

 

thats terrible!!....and its morning over there and its black!!....even worse....

just got a text from Angie

 

she says its BAD! 100 mph winds and its pitch black

 

 

NOT GOOD:(

 

Definitely not :sad:

 

Angie is getting the absolute worst of it right now

 

Angie is getting the absolute worst of it right now

 

HOLY SHIT!!.....why didnt she get out in time??

she's a nurse and has to report to the hospital tomorrow...IF there's one still standing by then...

she's a nurse and has to report to the hospital tomorrow...IF there's one still standing by then...

 

Oh thats bad...that looks really bad!!.....i heard that about 40% of the population stayed there!

That looks nasty :worried2:

New image, and it looks to be getting worse :disappointed:

it hit today. i think it's a two now?

 

 

but it's five hundred motherfreaking miles long. :stunned:

 

 

 

 

 

there's gonna be so much flooding. :( my heart goes out to the people down on the texas coast. :heart:!

does anybody know if she is ok??

Angie is still ok....winds still blowing...all trees at her place down, some siding blown off, some shingles blown off, about 6" rain at her place so far...

 

update more later

OK

i watched the weather channel all night ^^

winds are finally dying down...she is trying to get some rest...

thanks for all the updates Mel ! I really hope she'll be alright and can get some rest...

that's terrible !

thanks for all the updates Mel ! I really hope she'll be alright and can get some rest...

that's terrible !

 

no problem;)

 

Hopefully she is sleeping now:)

aw poor ange :\

 

thanx for the updates mel :)

My aunt, uncle, and cousins are riding out the storm in college station which isn't far from houston:cry:. They tried to leave but the highway was so packed the storm would have caught up to them. Luckly I called them this morning and they said there getting hit hard but it isnt as bad for them. All yesterday I was going out of my mind cause I thought it was going to be a catagory 4.

no problem ALEJA;)

 

 

edit: I'M STOOPID

Indya?? :stunned:

I'm sorry...I'm retarded. I didn't sleep last night. Forgive me ALEJA!!!

 

DUH!:embarassed:

:lol: you should get some rest

 

 

 

on a side note :P.....

 

 

Crews fan out in Texas to search for Ike victims

At least 3 million people are without power; storm blamed for 2 deaths

 

MSNBC News Services

updated 2:03 a.m. ET Sept. 14, 2008

HOUSTON - Hurricane Ike weakened to a tropical depression as it headed across western Arkansas Sunday, after making landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast as a Category 2 hurricane, paralyzing Houston and flooding Galveston and other coastal areas.

 

Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks set out across the flood-stricken Texas coast on Saturday in a monumental effort to reach tens of thousands of people who stubbornly ignored warnings of "certain death" and tried to ride out the storm.

 

The storm roared ashore hours before daybreak Saturday with 110-mph winds and towering waves, smashing houses, flooding thousands of homes, blowing out windows in Houston's skyscrapers, and cutting off power to more than 3 million people, perhaps for weeks.

 

By evening, it appeared that Ike was not the single calamitous stroke that forecasters had feared. But the full extent of the damage — or even a rough sense of how many people may have perished — was still unclear, in part because many roads were impassable.

 

Some authorities feared that this could instead become a slow-motion disaster, with thousands of victims trapped in their homes, waiting for days to be rescued.

 

"We will be doing this probably for the next week or more. We hope it doesn't turn into a recovery," said Sheriff's Sgt. Dennis Marlow in Orange County, where 600 to 700 people had to be rescued from flooded homes. He said hundreds were probably still stranded.

 

Many waited too long to leave

By some estimates, more than 140,000 of the 1 million or so people who had been ordered to evacuate the coast as Ike drew near may have tried to tough it out. Many of them evidently realized the mistake too late, and pleaded with authorities in vain to save them overnight.

 

Since Ike made landfall, there have been 940 rescues in Texas of people stranded in homes, vehicles and elsewhere, said Gov. Rick Perry's spokeswoman Allison Castle. In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal said nearly 600 people were plucked from Ike's floodwaters since Friday and that search and rescue teams believe the largest number of rescues was behind them.

 

At 1 a.m. CDT Sunday, Ike's center was 105 miles west-northwest of Little Rock, Arkansas, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The storm carried top sustained winds near 35 mph, and was moving north-northeast near 24 mph.

 

The center warned residents of Arkansas, northern Louisiana and southern Missouri that Ike was still dangerous and could unleash isolated tornadoes and dump from 3 to 8 inches of rain anywhere in a wide swath of the nation's midsection.

 

Ronnie Sharp, 65, and his terrier-mix Princess, had to be rescued from his trailer in Orange County when water reached his knees. "I was getting too many snakes in the house, otherwise I would have stayed," Sharp said. He said he lost everything in the flood but his medicine and some cigarettes.

 

After the storm had passed, National Guardsmen, members of the Coast Guard, FEMA representatives and state and local law enforcement authorities mobilized for what Gov. Rick Perry pronounced "the largest search-and-rescue operation in the history of the state of Texas."

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26637482?GT1=43001

 

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