That's some storm surge. Did relief work on Galveston Island after Ike and went past the sea wall every day. Weird to see the water actually coming over the top of the wall and this isn't even the worst part!
We're tracking at an annualized rate for strong earthquakes at over 3X the average. What is going on? ...Google and read "six strong earthquakes within six days - another expected"
I have an EXTREME amount of respect for you guys. Galveston is my hometown and the fact that you guys took the time to do a report here, just makes me so happy! Keep up the good work!
I went to galveston 2010 spring break and damage still showed. One hotel (reef hotel i think something like that) was completely destroyed and there were still houses that were damaged and were abandoned. 2011 looks all clear but we had to leave early because we thought tropical storm don was going to be a hurricane and hit us lol
i remember we had to leave to my aunts house beacuse it was flooding everywhere and it was so much fun lol since my family is mexican all the men got drunk slept upstairs and all the women downstairs takinq care of all the kids smh..
when i was in houston a tree destroyed our entire backroom in my house and after we went to galveston the sand on the beach was gone, like literally you would look over the seawall and see a 30 foot drop to a slope of rocks and water.
You watch something like this and laugh in amazement at the antics of these man-boys playing in the rain. Then you see his face and how excited he is and you remember that exuberant men like these are the reason we know as much as we do about weather today - and how to react to them properly. Thanks to guys like this, in 10 years we'll know even more.
Highest kudos for doing what I wish I had the guts to do.
I live in Spring & will never forget losing power around 11pm while watching everything unfold on TV & then not knowing what was going on. Around 2am the winds were so loud I started walking thru our house w/a flashlight, opened the door to our garage & thought our garage door was about to fly off! It sounded like a train was passing through our house! I was terrified.
ok Yea Galveston got it bad but how come nobody talks about the major Damage that Ike inflicted on Surfside Texas? alot of Bluewater highway which is a 12 mile at least stretch of road got wiped out due to storm surge
Extremely large hurricane for the strength it got. And even though it was a cat2, it had cat5 equivalent surge. I live 80 miles from the coast and we got 90MPH winds from the Northwest eyewall.
@wowpapa Yeah, my uncle who lives in Fannett lost his house because of the flooding that far inland. My grandfather who stayed in his Beaumont house during the storm got alot of property damage, but minimal flooding.
our window blew out with my mom sitting right next to it. The next morning when we went back into the room, nothing changed the paper was still on the desk which was 3ft away from the window
@DLOColumbia107 Depending where you lived. Katrina produced 30 foot surge in eastern Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. Ike only produced 15-20 foot surge. Big difference. Plus Katrina's winds were 130 at landfall...Ike's winds were only 110. Katrina was overall more powerful.
@DLOColumbia107 Katrina was a bit stronger, but we have to be clear: Katrina was a catastrophe because of the levee failure. So in the end, what destroyed New Orleans was human incompetence in the design of the levees, not nature. On the other hand, while Ike was a little weaker than Katrina, it was much bigger (one of the biggest to ever hit the US), and its sustained time over its targets caused the massive damage. -From a NE Houstonian.
I NEED HELP FINDING A PARTICULAR HURRICANE VIDEO, I DONT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE HURRICANE BUT IM SURE IT HAD A MALE NAME. THERE WERE 2 CHASERS IN A 4WD, THEY WERE IN A SMALL NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH HOUSES ON THE RIGHT & A SMALL FIELD TO THEIR LEFT, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SOCCER FIELD & THERE WAS SHEET METAL & DEBRIS BLOWING DOWN THE FIELD, THEY MENTION THE WIND WAS ABOUT 100MPH COMING STRAIGHT AT THEM, THE WIND WAS BLOWING FROM RIGHT TO LEFT & THE CLOUDS WERE MOVING RIGHT TO LEFT VERY FAST,
I NEED HELP FINDING A PARTICULAR HURRICANE VIDEO, I DONT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE HURRICANE BUT IM SURE IT HAD A MALE NAME. THERE WERE 2 CHASERS IN A 4WD, THEY WERE IN A SMALL NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH HOUSES ON THE RIGHT & A SMALL FIELD TO THEIR LEFT, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SOCCER FIELD & THERE WAS SHEET METAL & DEBRIS BLOWING DOWN THE FIELD, THEY MENTION THE WIND WAS ABOUT 100MPH COMING STRAIGHT AT THEM, THE WIND WAS BLOWING FROM RIGHT TO LEFT & THE CLOUDS WERE MOVING RIGHT TO LEFT VERY FAST,
I'm Emily, this storm came through my state and near my town. My family and I awaited the storm with the common thing, about 400 water jugs, 2 filled up with nasty water bath tubs, and lots of tuna. The day it was "supposed to hit" Sunshine. Not a single cloud.
I was in the old GTE Central Office in Dickinson Texas when she hit. All my pics are up from San Leon/Dickinson on Weather Underground. Search the pics for "San Leon".
it actually hit as a strong category 3 weak category 4 i was in houston so it was a weak 3 when it hit my house, luckly my house only got little damage, we had part of the roof ripped off, and all the shingles ripped off, as well as 2 blown windows, a tree fell on my next door neighbor, we had flooding in the front yard, but not in our house, but we had a 20000 kw generator hooked up to our breaker box so we only lost power for 10 seconds!!!!
@cokacody "it actually hit as a strong category 3 weak category 4"
Wrong. "[Ike] made landfall along the upper Texas coast at the upper end of Category 2 intensity." ~Tropical Cyclone Report, Hurricane Ike (AL092008), Published by the NHC.
@sakar181 No you see you are wrong I live in galveston as well as houston, so don't be telling me what I went through, i stayed in houston in a high rise apartment building during ike, all my windows were blown out, i think I would know especially since i went through it.
@cokacody Ok, um, I was in town also. Besides, I was quoting the report from the NHC; the people who take official records of that thing. You ARE wrong. It was a Cat 2 on landfall, not a cat 3 and certainly not a cat 4. Dont take offense, thats why I cited my source. Take it up with the people who, you know, do meteorology for a living.
@cokacody Ohh come on. I could tell a citation at 12. I mean, how much more obvious did it have to be? Besides, was I supposed to go and check your profile to see your age?
Im honestly not sure how close it was to Cat 3 strength; but yes, it was a *massive* storm. Thats why it caused so much surge. It actually caused the NHC to stop issuing storm surge predictions that were correlated with the category of the storm.
Wow! are those guys crazy standing outside with the wind blowing like that. I still remember during the hurricane, my dad kept opening the front door, which scared the shit out of me, speaking it was my first hurricane to be sitting through, never want to go through that again even if it wasn't as strong as the others
@scoop4me you have to realise these people also stay to help in any weather situation. They are all CPR trained and DO HELP while filminjg for science money and hey they are storm chasers. The pay off is the superhero stuff. While we sit on computers watching them. RESPECT.
Wished he would have had live feed too. My daughter was there and i was 2500 miles away worried about Galveston. I did not sleep at all that night trying to get any info i could
We lived at Gulf Breeze & fucking Lyda Ann Lied Again. She sent only schoolbuses to evacuate our elderly & disabled so the majority of 199 apts there the residents, including us, stayed. What part of the Island were you on? We were 21st/Ave L on the second floor.
i spent majority of the time in 61st street looking at the devastation but when it went serious enough to sweep away someone to the ocean i evaded to the appartment summerset appt... i was preety scared to see water rising all the way to the top...
I lived in Port Bolivar and my house was hit by a 38 foot wave- completely submerged. I lost 6 neighbors and they did not find their bodies for 2 weeks- 7 miles away- they felt something. You cannot build to resist that. Visit Bolivar Penninsula
Living that close to water no there is nothing you can build to survive it I lost a cabin on N Deens st Im talking about further inland where the surge didn't hit at
The sand probably looks better because they had to import it. So much of the sand on the beach was washed away with the storm that around this time last year, they were literally bringing in garbage truck fulls of sand and trying to rebuild the beach all along Seawall Blvd.
I hate Hurricanes and specially, after one passed, I hate cleaning up the mess and then go in the house with no electricity. I dont know how people did it back in the days this shit was hard and exausted.
we got lucky Rita shofted when it did, any longer on its original course and there would have been a hell of alot of dead people on teh roads in and around Houston, btw Bill White is a dipshit, getting up on TV afterwards and congratulating himself onhow well he supposedly protected the Houstonians, what a fucking flake of a politician. He did do shit for us, I sat and watched people on 45 and 59 nearly die from heat exaustion and run their cars out of gas by the tens of thousands
If you people think Ike was something, you should have rode out Elisha back in 83! that was wild as hell, I rode Allison out on the Gulf Coast Pier and then did the evacuation attempt thing when Rita was comign and the asshole police blocked off half the freeways and roads so that people ran out of gas left and right trying to get out of the city etc etc, yeah I dont miss that place one bit personally, that shit gets old after a while, year after year, heart goes out to those of you still there
3 days!? i live in spring right next to houston and i was out of power for about a week and a half if not 2 weeks how did galveston get its power back before us?
After Hurricane Ike The good citizens of Galveston got together, got organised, and got busy. By contrast the "good citizens" of New Orleans did nothing but cry and wait for the federal government bureaucracy to mismanage, mishandle, and spend untold millions and then be soundly and roundly criticized for their half-hearted effort
Just proves you can get more accomplished with a hammer in your hand than a crack pipe.
Wild experience.... I live in Galveston and stayed for hurricane Ike. Amazingly we were fortunate enough to no damage or loss. The water was about 4' high in my neighborhood. The water was about a 1 1/2 ' from getting into our home,where in other streets 4 blocks got flooded with only 6".
I live in Houston and when hurricane ike was comin thru i was havin a hurricane party but all of a sudden the power goes out like right when the storm was startin which suked so we sat in the dark all night i was out around 3 and 4 am was the worst /best of the storm
man we were tryin' to make the best of it huh?lol. it got to the point where we were cooking stuff on the pit that wasn't supposed to be bbq'd.lol. it was bad though cause i live in pasadena and my parents are from galv. , and i had to watch my mom try to keep it together when she knew they losing everything. it was a tough sob but h-town, p-town, and g-town made it.
you know...not having power sucks, but i lost everything. id MUCH rather go a whole month without power and still have my things, especially my pictures and memories.
Actually you should be thankful about the power being out. It promotes going outside more and some people have friends who only play video game since they had nothing to do they would normally play outside. You can also get to know your friends more too and have a chat. That's all I can say for those who have friends like that but there are good and bad thing for everything when a hurricane hits next time try to think of the good that came out such as what I set as an example that should help.
Idiot, for some folks out of the city no power means no water as well. That means no water for cooking, or the toilet, or showering or washing hands. That's rough. Think about how it was for the infants and toddlers being hot as heck as it was. Then the husband has to work still while the family is home in this mess. It's not a good thing.
I was only pointing out the positive side. Sheesh don't you people ever look at it the bright way. Also with no food and stuff to cook that should be a good opportunity to go around and learn how to look for food and cook it with your bare hands. In my opinion you shouldn't always rely on ovens and showers and technology all the time to maintain living. Way too dependent if you ask me.
dude what the hell do you think this is? survivor? yeah we have a lot of deer running around houston to hunt! we also have rainforest to live off of in houston, and galveston. to put it simply. that is the most moronic comment ever. what were the islanders supposed to do? eat palm trees, and sand?
this is coming from a 17 yr old kid who still watches cartoons.lol! well i'm a grown man who spent time in the army, and knows how to live outdoors. if you want people to respect you're views then post some less ridiculous ones. you obviously never been through a hurricane, and if you have you'd be lying to say that you dealt with it just fine.
galveston got pretty mangled. my grandparents live off of teichman idk if many of you know where thats at lol but they live on a lagoon and had 7 feet of water in their house. an older house on the galveston bay facing texas city and it ceases to exist. towards the harbor and hospital the neigborhoods there got messed up bad. if yall saw the video on the news where all those boats were on the highway that was where my family lives lol. there was a boat in the guys pool across the lagoon l
no shit teichman! yeah it was tore up over there. i live in pasadena but my parents live off of 61st, and seawall.when i first went back to take them to what was left my mom was balling. bolivar was gone. it was terrible. well i hope your grandparents made out alright.
oh yeah man! it was terrible. my mother was just broken when they finally let them back on the island. she could tell by the causeway it wasn't gonna be nice sight.
thats wut my dad said they went in on that look and leave policy by boat. all those boats were from the marina near my family's house. as devestating as it was some of the boats were in some kinda funny spots like that one in the pool and there was one wedged in between the neighbor's house. my aunts house on 81st st was totally gone. all that was left was the foundation. At least the city is slowly comin back to life
Last year was the worst year of my life, Ike was horrible! my family and I did not have any power for at least 2 weeks, almost a month, and it was hot, but it just shows, how we take Tecnology for grated!!!, it was not as bad but it was bad!!!, if that makes any scene LOL, the main thing was, was the heat, and geting the power back on!!.
i lived on this coast all my life. never seen a storm like this. i live in alvin and (hunkered down) haha. it was awesome to go outside! the steps they talk about in this vid. where all twisted and mangled the next day!
the way the guy in the blue shirt was running from 0:14-0:23 was halarious lmao. but yeah this storm sucked. i rode it out at home in sugar land texas.
You should have went and jumped in the water.
lilrob10201 1 week ago
haha the huricane can`t kill peopole
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That's some storm surge. Did relief work on Galveston Island after Ike and went past the sea wall every day. Weird to see the water actually coming over the top of the wall and this isn't even the worst part!
meteorologyswimgirl1 2 months ago
Went there last year drove from Spring in Texas, vacation from the UK....didnt look like that when we where there!
faztclix 2 months ago
We're tracking at an annualized rate for strong earthquakes at over 3X the average. What is going on? ...Google and read "six strong earthquakes within six days - another expected"
Bobzeedo 4 months ago
We ALL went through hell with this hurricane!
One almost two months without electricity in South Houston! What a Nightmare! :(
superstarcookiee 4 months ago
This video is the best i have ever seen.
mihaaero 4 months ago
Dear East Coast,
That's what we South Coasters call a storm.
Sincerely,
The water falling from the sky is called rain
SoAReCAtsSwiMming 5 months ago
BUT THIS ISN'T A TOOOORNADO!! IT'S A HURRICANE!
Guitarfanatix 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
"youll get no sympathy from me"
giratina5304 5 months ago
i would have been like WHEE! * lays on floor and slides down street * IM WINNING THE RACE! :3
toontownpenny8 5 months ago
Ike was so bad that it was replaced on Isaias in 2014 on the 6 year cycle of hurricane names that the WMO uses
peakster753 5 months ago
I have an EXTREME amount of respect for you guys. Galveston is my hometown and the fact that you guys took the time to do a report here, just makes me so happy! Keep up the good work!
csparkym 5 months ago
Hey weather bug fag fuck you and stop judgeing mother nature
MrBENJiVids 5 months ago
I went to galveston 2010 spring break and damage still showed. One hotel (reef hotel i think something like that) was completely destroyed and there were still houses that were damaged and were abandoned. 2011 looks all clear but we had to leave early because we thought tropical storm don was going to be a hurricane and hit us lol
hlslayer123 6 months ago
@hlslayer123 ......lol....I was in San Luis Pass fishing. I was really concerned though.
pinoypangit 5 months ago
lol that guy's face at 3:01. he's like a big psychotic labrador
bitchze 6 months ago
i remember we had to leave to my aunts house beacuse it was flooding everywhere and it was so much fun lol since my family is mexican all the men got drunk slept upstairs and all the women downstairs takinq care of all the kids smh..
nenababayy 6 months ago
I live in Bridge City, and it came through and took everything out, it was pretty rough.
FightingIrishman26 6 months ago
I lived in conroe tx when hurricane ike hit
TheTornadoF1 6 months ago
when i was in houston a tree destroyed our entire backroom in my house and after we went to galveston the sand on the beach was gone, like literally you would look over the seawall and see a 30 foot drop to a slope of rocks and water.
cockfightskates123 6 months ago
This was a huge storm!! my family stayed during it we live in southeast texas. It was pretty scary. I was glad when it was over!!
xbutterflyxrainxkiss 7 months ago
EPIC!!! WANT TO BE IN IT!!!
SuperboyConnerKent 7 months ago
wow you wer scard
sarahmarks677 8 months ago
i was in this storm it was so scary ):
nene211ily 8 months ago
i remember this storm.I was in Houston but my giant tree fell and knock the next door house and got sewed.
TheRealSubmersible 9 months ago
That rain has to hurt like a bitch!
TheProDdigy 9 months ago
You watch something like this and laugh in amazement at the antics of these man-boys playing in the rain. Then you see his face and how excited he is and you remember that exuberant men like these are the reason we know as much as we do about weather today - and how to react to them properly. Thanks to guys like this, in 10 years we'll know even more.
Highest kudos for doing what I wish I had the guts to do.
byfaith116 9 months ago
and i remember not having lights for 20 days and that pine tree besides my apartment moving ...shit!
omardx8 9 months ago
DUUUUDE why is the sky pink?
ednasilva 9 months ago
@ednasilva It's just the Sun reflecting off of the Clouds.
Reduxalicious 9 months ago
@ednasilva Before, during, or after a tornado or hurricane, the sky is almost always pink or yellow.
theomazingowenater12 8 months ago
I live in Spring & will never forget losing power around 11pm while watching everything unfold on TV & then not knowing what was going on. Around 2am the winds were so loud I started walking thru our house w/a flashlight, opened the door to our garage & thought our garage door was about to fly off! It sounded like a train was passing through our house! I was terrified.
dearchelle09 11 months ago
im laughing so hard cause Reed does so much funny stuff out in the hurricane Ike!
lilpooch99 11 months ago
im laughing up a storm so BAD!
lilpooch99 11 months ago
i see reed timmer
kmeister9 11 months ago
i see reed timmer
kmeister9 11 months ago
I'm 30-45 minutes away from Galveston in Seabrook and I just so happened to live on the RIGHT side of 146.
DotKritic 11 months ago
we live an hour or 2 away from galvaston and it got so bad we had to go to the school gym for 2 days straight
8100cowgirl 1 year ago
morons
texasretodd 1 year ago
ok Yea Galveston got it bad but how come nobody talks about the major Damage that Ike inflicted on Surfside Texas? alot of Bluewater highway which is a 12 mile at least stretch of road got wiped out due to storm surge
SuperSexyredneck 1 year ago
@SuperSexyredneck I remember that, I had to drive on the beach for miles. It was not a good road to drive on. That was 2 weeks afterwards!
Wbrundog 1 year ago
Extremely large hurricane for the strength it got. And even though it was a cat2, it had cat5 equivalent surge. I live 80 miles from the coast and we got 90MPH winds from the Northwest eyewall.
wowpapa 1 year ago
@wowpapa Yeah, my uncle who lives in Fannett lost his house because of the flooding that far inland. My grandfather who stayed in his Beaumont house during the storm got alot of property damage, but minimal flooding.
phineasgauge69 1 year ago
they closed my school because of this hurricane XD lol
DrayDray72 1 year ago 10
my family was iin the turks and caicos for vacation the ended up being evacuated
animezlyfe 1 year ago
our window blew out with my mom sitting right next to it. The next morning when we went back into the room, nothing changed the paper was still on the desk which was 3ft away from the window
EverythingMagic101 1 year ago
yeah a barn roof flew over our house and landed in our front yard we were very lucky
EverythingMagic101 1 year ago
I live in Louisiana, and this made Katrina look like a little girl...
DLOColumbia107 1 year ago 13
@DLOColumbia107 Depending where you lived. Katrina produced 30 foot surge in eastern Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. Ike only produced 15-20 foot surge. Big difference. Plus Katrina's winds were 130 at landfall...Ike's winds were only 110. Katrina was overall more powerful.
weatherbug95 5 months ago
@DLOColumbia107 Katrina was a bit stronger, but we have to be clear: Katrina was a catastrophe because of the levee failure. So in the end, what destroyed New Orleans was human incompetence in the design of the levees, not nature. On the other hand, while Ike was a little weaker than Katrina, it was much bigger (one of the biggest to ever hit the US), and its sustained time over its targets caused the massive damage. -From a NE Houstonian.
dacypher22 5 months ago
@DLOColumbia107 lol Katrina has a brother
payneterran3 4 months ago
@DLOColumbia107 You are going to make her mad and you don't want to do that
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I NEED HELP FINDING A PARTICULAR HURRICANE VIDEO, I DONT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE HURRICANE BUT IM SURE IT HAD A MALE NAME. THERE WERE 2 CHASERS IN A 4WD, THEY WERE IN A SMALL NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH HOUSES ON THE RIGHT & A SMALL FIELD TO THEIR LEFT, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SOCCER FIELD & THERE WAS SHEET METAL & DEBRIS BLOWING DOWN THE FIELD, THEY MENTION THE WIND WAS ABOUT 100MPH COMING STRAIGHT AT THEM, THE WIND WAS BLOWING FROM RIGHT TO LEFT & THE CLOUDS WERE MOVING RIGHT TO LEFT VERY FAST,
incus2934 1 year ago
I NEED HELP FINDING A PARTICULAR HURRICANE VIDEO, I DONT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE HURRICANE BUT IM SURE IT HAD A MALE NAME. THERE WERE 2 CHASERS IN A 4WD, THEY WERE IN A SMALL NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH HOUSES ON THE RIGHT & A SMALL FIELD TO THEIR LEFT, ABOUT THE SIZE OF A SOCCER FIELD & THERE WAS SHEET METAL & DEBRIS BLOWING DOWN THE FIELD, THEY MENTION THE WIND WAS ABOUT 100MPH COMING STRAIGHT AT THEM, THE WIND WAS BLOWING FROM RIGHT TO LEFT & THE CLOUDS WERE MOVING RIGHT TO LEFT VERY FAST,
incus2934 1 year ago
that looks like the hotel galvez parking lot. it was crazy!!!
schalley44 1 year ago
Lol.
Cpc66blaineCp 1 year ago
I'm Emily, this storm came through my state and near my town. My family and I awaited the storm with the common thing, about 400 water jugs, 2 filled up with nasty water bath tubs, and lots of tuna. The day it was "supposed to hit" Sunshine. Not a single cloud.
Animallover340 1 year ago
I survived this!!!!
I can't believe Reed Timmer was here and I didn't see him
punchy9876 1 year ago
I was in the old GTE Central Office in Dickinson Texas when she hit. All my pics are up from San Leon/Dickinson on Weather Underground. Search the pics for "San Leon".
Wasn't any fun let me tell you!
GALVESTON340 1 year ago
REED is CRAZY but i like him!!!!!
TheOTTO2732 1 year ago
if these guys were proffessional they wouldn"t be standing outside like targets...its not a party
MIKCURIE 1 year ago
These guys are having a casual conversation while hurricane ike was destroting my family home...weird.
Purdy31621 1 year ago
omgosh!!... that wind was friggin blwin hard!!!.... i was born n galveston
CMRW1 1 year ago
I'm in Katy, outskirts of Houston, but we had 2 weeks with no power. Only thing that happened was high winds, fences down, trees down. Etc
Nice footage of Galveston though. :3
darkwolfy503 1 year ago
haha! you were standing infront of the san luis like it was nothing! the wall did what it was designed to do!
MrKawiman94 1 year ago
It was a category 2 but it had a storm surge of a strong 3 or a weak 4. I had 8 feet of water in my house. It totally sucks losing all ur stuff.
babyjaggirl 1 year ago
it is kinda cool to be in a hurricane. i was in ike wen it happened
HeavyHitter074 1 year ago
dude get away 4rm the friggin water
courtmg19 1 year ago
it actually hit as a strong category 3 weak category 4 i was in houston so it was a weak 3 when it hit my house, luckly my house only got little damage, we had part of the roof ripped off, and all the shingles ripped off, as well as 2 blown windows, a tree fell on my next door neighbor, we had flooding in the front yard, but not in our house, but we had a 20000 kw generator hooked up to our breaker box so we only lost power for 10 seconds!!!!
cokacody 1 year ago
@cokacody "it actually hit as a strong category 3 weak category 4"
Wrong. "[Ike] made landfall along the upper Texas coast at the upper end of Category 2 intensity." ~Tropical Cyclone Report, Hurricane Ike (AL092008), Published by the NHC.
sakar181 1 year ago
@sakar181 No you see you are wrong I live in galveston as well as houston, so don't be telling me what I went through, i stayed in houston in a high rise apartment building during ike, all my windows were blown out, i think I would know especially since i went through it.
cokacody 1 year ago
@cokacody Ok, um, I was in town also. Besides, I was quoting the report from the NHC; the people who take official records of that thing. You ARE wrong. It was a Cat 2 on landfall, not a cat 3 and certainly not a cat 4. Dont take offense, thats why I cited my source. Take it up with the people who, you know, do meteorology for a living.
Jeeze, so touchy.
sakar181 1 year ago
@sakar181 ok good job you missproved a 14 year old kid, Whatever
cokacody 1 year ago
@cokacody Ohh come on. I could tell a citation at 12. I mean, how much more obvious did it have to be? Besides, was I supposed to go and check your profile to see your age?
sakar181 1 year ago
@sakar181 Umm ok congrats your right whatever, now stop messaging me.
cokacody 1 year ago
@sakar181 If I remember right it was only 5mph short of cat 3 and its size took up most of the Gulf of Mexico.
BufordStone 1 year ago
@BufordStone
Im honestly not sure how close it was to Cat 3 strength; but yes, it was a *massive* storm. Thats why it caused so much surge. It actually caused the NHC to stop issuing storm surge predictions that were correlated with the category of the storm.
sakar181 1 year ago
I remember the Night after the storm a Huge clap of thunder set off every car alarm in the neighbor hood.
Reduxalicious 1 year ago
I remember Hurricane Ike like it was yesterday. I also remember the day after the storm, driving around ro see the damage, it was bad...
iRainingSnowdropx 1 year ago
I should go surfing that day
protito93 1 year ago
this video sucks like your dick ass hole
MrFatdude12 1 year ago
@MrFatdude12 Your mom licks assholes.
kotaro07 1 year ago
It's not THAT the wind is blowin'...it's WHAT the wind is blowin'
bluevirgo66 1 year ago
I wonder...if this hurrican fights for his friends?!
FailProofFrank 1 year ago
@FailProofFrank Nappa: I get it.
kotaro07 1 year ago
Wow! are those guys crazy standing outside with the wind blowing like that. I still remember during the hurricane, my dad kept opening the front door, which scared the shit out of me, speaking it was my first hurricane to be sitting through, never want to go through that again even if it wasn't as strong as the others
midgetpinay 1 year ago
FEMA said we didnt have enough damage. We lost our home. No joke.
mbw1985 1 year ago
Lost my home to this. Got to be homeless for awhile to. Thanks for the help FEMA... Still a little bitter lol
mbw1985 1 year ago
@mbw1985 Redneck you are using my good FEMA taxes and still you want to secede from the USA...
MultiWILLIE 1 year ago
my house got screwed up by that
crf250rider14 1 year ago
I think tornadoes and hurricanes are both scary but at least with a hurricane you usually have a bit more of a warning, and more time to prepare.
Barnett213 1 year ago
when I see them sitting there laughing about how cool it is freaks me out alot of ppl were trapped on the island and some were lost after Ike hit...
scoop4me 1 year ago
@scoop4me you have to realise these people also stay to help in any weather situation. They are all CPR trained and DO HELP while filminjg for science money and hey they are storm chasers. The pay off is the superhero stuff. While we sit on computers watching them. RESPECT.
matonmagic 1 year ago
@matonmagic its not that hard to be CPR trained, Im 15 and am trained.
deltagirl008 1 year ago
i would not be sittin right, that is too much water on land, but a tornado would be a different story
deangelo121 1 year ago
oh cool, its my favorite storm chasers! that window breaking in your face must have been a wild ride indeed
metaridleyfan2 1 year ago
Thats so cool! I swear to god when i go to the galveston beach i stood exactly where redd and chris were. Werid
Randompapayas 1 year ago
i want to join these guys i want to be in this profession.
jeff9702 1 year ago
Wished he would have had live feed too. My daughter was there and i was 2500 miles away worried about Galveston. I did not sleep at all that night trying to get any info i could
pennylane36 1 year ago
REED,JOEL,YOU ARE SO STUPID
mattschuab447 1 year ago
you get no sympathy from me
BlackDewn 1 year ago
did u know this hurracane whas on my sister birthday lol her present from god is a hurracane
LESTER8521 2 years ago
that is horrific but you know what is horrific? I was there and watching it all!
sirbishal1 2 years ago
@sirbishal1
We lived at Gulf Breeze & fucking Lyda Ann Lied Again. She sent only schoolbuses to evacuate our elderly & disabled so the majority of 199 apts there the residents, including us, stayed. What part of the Island were you on? We were 21st/Ave L on the second floor.
BeeJoyous 2 years ago
OH i was right on the beach! i mean i was at my uncle's appt in Galveston!
sirbishal1 2 years ago
Good God! You saw it too! What street?
BeeJoyous 2 years ago
i spent majority of the time in 61st street looking at the devastation but when it went serious enough to sweep away someone to the ocean i evaded to the appartment summerset appt... i was preety scared to see water rising all the way to the top...
sirbishal1 2 years ago
In montreal we lost power for 1month
xeeltuz 2 years ago
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DreamsofMajesty 2 years ago
how the hell do u sleep when a Hurricane hits overnight?
Fanik8 2 years ago
easy have well built house and you wont hear damn thing or feel the house shake to winds
OzniWellman 2 years ago
I lived in Port Bolivar and my house was hit by a 38 foot wave- completely submerged. I lost 6 neighbors and they did not find their bodies for 2 weeks- 7 miles away- they felt something. You cannot build to resist that. Visit Bolivar Penninsula
jaycowart 2 years ago
Living that close to water no there is nothing you can build to survive it I lost a cabin on N Deens st Im talking about further inland where the surge didn't hit at
OzniWellman 2 years ago
during hurricane ike a tornado landed on r street
sk8rboibreak 2 years ago
@sk8rboibreak What part of the Island?
BeeJoyous 2 years ago
wer not on da island
sk8rboibreak 2 years ago
@BeeJoyous that was on the Sea Wall, not sure what end of it.
LaurieTX 2 years ago
This guys an idiot i hope he gets blown away
SushiCubes 2 years ago 2
Whoops, I came here thinking this was a Devo video.
Anrkist713 2 years ago
the beech is so much prettier down there now sence the herricane the sand lookss better i llove galveston i live about 50 miles from there
tyjerretgolden2014 2 years ago
The sand probably looks better because they had to import it. So much of the sand on the beach was washed away with the storm that around this time last year, they were literally bringing in garbage truck fulls of sand and trying to rebuild the beach all along Seawall Blvd.
meteorologyswimgirl 2 years ago
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JayShandiDakota 2 years ago
I hate Hurricanes and specially, after one passed, I hate cleaning up the mess and then go in the house with no electricity. I dont know how people did it back in the days this shit was hard and exausted.
houstondynamo1 2 years ago
oh yeah, i'm gay for these guys now.
Fanik8 2 years ago
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IS THAT A HURRACAINE!!!?? it looks fake
dannyesoz666 2 years ago
we got lucky Rita shofted when it did, any longer on its original course and there would have been a hell of alot of dead people on teh roads in and around Houston, btw Bill White is a dipshit, getting up on TV afterwards and congratulating himself onhow well he supposedly protected the Houstonians, what a fucking flake of a politician. He did do shit for us, I sat and watched people on 45 and 59 nearly die from heat exaustion and run their cars out of gas by the tens of thousands
SaturnOwner26 2 years ago
If you people think Ike was something, you should have rode out Elisha back in 83! that was wild as hell, I rode Allison out on the Gulf Coast Pier and then did the evacuation attempt thing when Rita was comign and the asshole police blocked off half the freeways and roads so that people ran out of gas left and right trying to get out of the city etc etc, yeah I dont miss that place one bit personally, that shit gets old after a while, year after year, heart goes out to those of you still there
SaturnOwner26 2 years ago
yall r crazy lol
Jeka2188 2 years ago
i lived nere galveston when this happened part of my neighborhood lost power for 3 days
clesherson 2 years ago
3 days!? i live in spring right next to houston and i was out of power for about a week and a half if not 2 weeks how did galveston get its power back before us?
neolucha347 2 years ago
sure it's all fun and games untill someone gets swept out to sea.
babecat2000 2 years ago
After Hurricane Ike The good citizens of Galveston got together, got organised, and got busy. By contrast the "good citizens" of New Orleans did nothing but cry and wait for the federal government bureaucracy to mismanage, mishandle, and spend untold millions and then be soundly and roundly criticized for their half-hearted effort
Just proves you can get more accomplished with a hammer in your hand than a crack pipe.
Avatarblackwolf 2 years ago 3
you do remember while you were laughing and having fun, more than a hundred people were dying.
not so funny to me.
teampenit 2 years ago
dumb ass looking as your video...Wrong side og=f the island dumb ass'
Wow67122 2 years ago
damn that looks fun as hell
mickXfan 2 years ago
I remember this hurricane. Will any other hurricane hit texas this year?
Nebula501713 2 years ago 2
no
i dont think so
HaloNoob94 2 years ago
yes
josh198869 2 years ago
Idk go to a psychic they could tell you... Wow what kind of a question is that lol.
gtrxxfiendxx 2 years ago
I was there and it was the most amazing thing Ive ever seen in my life...!
MrtiniPrep 2 years ago
Well i lived here before and after and am currently living in Galveston. Its getting way better! =D
hollyhappybunny 2 years ago 2
Wild experience.... I live in Galveston and stayed for hurricane Ike. Amazingly we were fortunate enough to no damage or loss. The water was about 4' high in my neighborhood. The water was about a 1 1/2 ' from getting into our home,where in other streets 4 blocks got flooded with only 6".
Loredo409 2 years ago
I live in Friendswood and i went outside during the middle of Ike(not the eye)
TheMira428 2 years ago
I Just dnt Get hurricane's I'm Only 13 But how d othey Form And what do they Do?Somebody PLEASE tELL ME MORE ABOUT weather It's So Unpredictable!!
selenabeautywarrior 2 years ago
cool video
MrHurricaneTracker 2 years ago
I saw one of the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen Friday evening before Ike
elekktrode 2 years ago
hell yeah it was amazing!
blackgreen333 2 years ago
hurricane party??...
EB007911 2 years ago
I live in Houston and when hurricane ike was comin thru i was havin a hurricane party but all of a sudden the power goes out like right when the storm was startin which suked so we sat in the dark all night i was out around 3 and 4 am was the worst /best of the storm
h7screw1stone3h 2 years ago
i remenber when that happen too but it never go in houston.
oogoditscharlie 2 years ago
man we were tryin' to make the best of it huh?lol. it got to the point where we were cooking stuff on the pit that wasn't supposed to be bbq'd.lol. it was bad though cause i live in pasadena and my parents are from galv. , and i had to watch my mom try to keep it together when she knew they losing everything. it was a tough sob but h-town, p-town, and g-town made it.
windowpain81 2 years ago
awesome footage! i was in this hurricane too but i live on the nw side of houston
tjomc82 2 years ago
you know...not having power sucks, but i lost everything. id MUCH rather go a whole month without power and still have my things, especially my pictures and memories.
be thankful.
jenncyclopedia 2 years ago
Actually you should be thankful about the power being out. It promotes going outside more and some people have friends who only play video game since they had nothing to do they would normally play outside. You can also get to know your friends more too and have a chat. That's all I can say for those who have friends like that but there are good and bad thing for everything when a hurricane hits next time try to think of the good that came out such as what I set as an example that should help.
xdarkkilllrx 2 years ago
Idiot, for some folks out of the city no power means no water as well. That means no water for cooking, or the toilet, or showering or washing hands. That's rough. Think about how it was for the infants and toddlers being hot as heck as it was. Then the husband has to work still while the family is home in this mess. It's not a good thing.
BushHog936 2 years ago
I was only pointing out the positive side. Sheesh don't you people ever look at it the bright way. Also with no food and stuff to cook that should be a good opportunity to go around and learn how to look for food and cook it with your bare hands. In my opinion you shouldn't always rely on ovens and showers and technology all the time to maintain living. Way too dependent if you ask me.
xdarkkilllrx 2 years ago
dude what the hell do you think this is? survivor? yeah we have a lot of deer running around houston to hunt! we also have rainforest to live off of in houston, and galveston. to put it simply. that is the most moronic comment ever. what were the islanders supposed to do? eat palm trees, and sand?
windowpain81 2 years ago
I am who I am and I look at things the way I want because it's my business so please respect it.
xdarkkilllrx 2 years ago
this is coming from a 17 yr old kid who still watches cartoons.lol! well i'm a grown man who spent time in the army, and knows how to live outdoors. if you want people to respect you're views then post some less ridiculous ones. you obviously never been through a hurricane, and if you have you'd be lying to say that you dealt with it just fine.
windowpain81 2 years ago
galveston got pretty mangled. my grandparents live off of teichman idk if many of you know where thats at lol but they live on a lagoon and had 7 feet of water in their house. an older house on the galveston bay facing texas city and it ceases to exist. towards the harbor and hospital the neigborhoods there got messed up bad. if yall saw the video on the news where all those boats were on the highway that was where my family lives lol. there was a boat in the guys pool across the lagoon l
texanol75 2 years ago
no shit teichman! yeah it was tore up over there. i live in pasadena but my parents live off of 61st, and seawall.when i first went back to take them to what was left my mom was balling. bolivar was gone. it was terrible. well i hope your grandparents made out alright.
windowpain81 2 years ago
yea have you seen the west end of the island? almost like there was nuthin ever there
texanol75 2 years ago
oh yeah man! it was terrible. my mother was just broken when they finally let them back on the island. she could tell by the causeway it wasn't gonna be nice sight.
windowpain81 2 years ago
thats wut my dad said they went in on that look and leave policy by boat. all those boats were from the marina near my family's house. as devestating as it was some of the boats were in some kinda funny spots like that one in the pool and there was one wedged in between the neighbor's house. my aunts house on 81st st was totally gone. all that was left was the foundation. At least the city is slowly comin back to life
texanol75 2 years ago
i went there and umm.. well i found trash
and stuff and a crab bit meh =(
TiffanyXD7 2 years ago
dude ur lucky i didnt had no light in my house for 3 weeks but it was cool no school lol i spent 1 week in pearland my aunt had light so yeah
fjm2008 2 years ago
i live it Galveston
Coldcasefan101 2 years ago
I remember this last year! It was on my Neices birthday. She fell asleep and woke up yelling" It's my birthday it's my birthday!" xD..
Houston, No power for 2 weeks to school for 5-7 weeks.
Exko19 2 years ago
Last year was the worst year of my life, Ike was horrible! my family and I did not have any power for at least 2 weeks, almost a month, and it was hot, but it just shows, how we take Tecnology for grated!!!, it was not as bad but it was bad!!!, if that makes any scene LOL, the main thing was, was the heat, and geting the power back on!!.
Hattaru 2 years ago
i lived on this coast all my life. never seen a storm like this. i live in alvin and (hunkered down) haha. it was awesome to go outside! the steps they talk about in this vid. where all twisted and mangled the next day!
1979fatal 2 years ago
uuuum no need to share were u are from
sk8rgirl43 2 years ago
the way the guy in the blue shirt was running from 0:14-0:23 was halarious lmao. but yeah this storm sucked. i rode it out at home in sugar land texas.
mclark7799 2 years ago
no power for 1 week never again...never again
bluebballgirl 2 years ago
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thepunisher2 2 years ago
after this hurricane ike it floods and the flood is tall like a stop sign
xXxBFFxAngelxXx10 2 years ago
i REALLY hope we dont get another hurricane this year!!! i personaly dont like them.. especially when theyre gone and crap is laying every where!
♥allison kaye
hunny4bunz 2 years ago
I know that, it just that my part didn't get that damage like Galveston or Bolivar, then again it did took a while to pay for the damages
SantiHernandez221 2 years ago
these ppl must have been crazy do be there.
The Hurricane wasn't that bad, i feel asleep and the worse thing that happen was the power going out.
SantiHernandez221 2 years ago
You do know that Ike is the 3rd most costliest Hurricane in U.S. history right? So yes it was bad, maybe not for you, but it was bad.
Soulself 2 years ago 4