Friday 09.12.08 - Hurricane Ike - Galveston Video

[08tacoma1288]

Hey philosopher, good idea about building the house taller. but what good does that do when a 50 foot yatch sweeps it away, jackass. Its a hurricane, anything can happen. You must live in Nebraska shoob.

[Flipsideou812]

Everyone listen to the philosopher he may be the next weather prophet, your a derelict of a man

[eckzdeemaxx]

tl;dr

[natishnatish]

it seems the hurricane wasnt has bad has they planned... they told that 20 feet waves would take over the entire city...

[PhilosopherSocrates]

they predicted 20-25 and it was 11 at Galveston. The highest one was 13.5 at Houston

[beaches0707]

do you live in Galveston?

[PhilosopherSocrates]

I live South of there in Corpus. I've had many relatives and friends through out the years that currently live or have lived in the Houston/Galveston area. In the early morning the storm made landfall and later that same day they were calling us telling us everything was fine.

[CeraBelle]

It was that bad  the damage was like a cat 4. Galvaston, surfside and bolivar are no more

[dcmarino13]

Anybody that dies in this hurricane that had the physical ability to leave deserves to die. These people are idiots, and that's being nice.

[PhilosopherSocrates]

First of all no one died. There weren't even injuries reported And everyone knew better than to listen to the idiot fear mongers who would rather have people die from panicked evac. Which has happened. Many of the people are too pour to book hotels and burn gas. you would be too if you dropped that much money every time the weather channel said "boo!". I live close to that area and have had to put up with misinformation from the national news and weather channel all my life.

[PhilosopherSocrates]

further more you should be informed about what does happen often in this area. By often I mean a good 6 times a year during hurricane season. You have bloodthirsty weather men who don't know the area but want to make a career by over dramatizing every good gust of wind in the gulf. They tell everyone along every coast at some point to evacuate. We're talking all the Texas Louisiana coasts and all of Florida.

[PhilosopherSocrates]

Evacs are almost always mishandled causing tragedies when the end not a drop of rain actually falls. Even when all goes as planned cars that started with full tanks have to be abandoned on the road and towed away. to give you an idea of how many cars they filled massive parking lots full of people just trying to sign up to reclaim their vehicle. 6 -10 times a year we get a good storm in the gulf and every time without fail the news tells everyone the sky is falling.

[PhilosopherSocrates]

a cat 4 or 5 hurricane is worth evacuating over. This was never more than a cat 2. People who spend their lives here know how to build their houses and read tracking maps and study millibars of atmospheric pressure in a hurricane better than the entire weather channel team. You have a good foundation you build so high above sea level you fuel up and stock up and board up. That's what you do for a cat 2. In 2 days floods gone power's on.

[SectorSevenCosplay]

I live in Galveston and totally understand. It's not that the Island is full of idiots or anything like that. If the media was more honest about what they cover then we might actually evacuate when we need to...but most of the time, about 70-80% (I am not exaggerating..) it either doesn't hit the place at all or did something totally different from what they were forcing down everyone's throats.

[ASHancock78]

Actually people did die. You need to check your information sources before making a blanket statment such as that one.

[ASHancock78]

Especially when you don't even live here (Galveston).