Round 2 Ike

[Jogeephus]

It finally happened. :shock: Started raining at 8:58 am. Hope it rains for more than 10 minutes. Wind is turning more to WNW @ 25

My prayers for you worked! I prayed for rain for you but no damaging winds. Hope this plays out for you!

 

[1982vett]

Thanks Jogee, the center looks like it is east of Huntsville about now. That is 80 miles east of us. Been raining up and down Highway 6 all morning. Changed the weatherbug to Bryan/College Station. Says the winds are WNW @ 32.

 

[mwj]

It finally happened. :shock: Started raining at 8:58 am. Hope it rains for more than 10 minutes. Wind is turning more to WNW @ 25

You posted this at 808 am so how did you guess it would be raining in 50 minutes :shock: :cowboy:

 

[novatech]

My wife is an RN at Memorial City Hospital in Houston. They put them in lock down from yesterday at 10:30 AM until noon Monday. Just talked to her on the phone. The power is out and the generators have taken over. Sounds ok but the AC is shut down and the TV system is out. Can't imagine no AC with no windows to open.
Talked to some people from Crystal Beech on Bolivar Peninsula and they said their house is totally gone with no sign of it ever being there. Didn't ask how they know that.
I am about a hours drive west of Houston and have had about an inch of rain thus far with winds just hard enough to knock out a few limbs. Very few power outages.
Caustic, I hope you and others are fairing well. Looks like that thing is moving right over the top of you by now.

 

[1982vett]

Watch several weather radar maps, watch the movements, where the rains are, how far they are from me, speed distance. Sometimes a good guess.

Some of the sites I watch.

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Rad ... imate=true

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/inte ... ayer=radar

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26295161

http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hurric ... imate=true

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Rad ... on=default

http://weather.weatherbug.com/TX/Bryan- ... 263ec0ab82

Lots of places to get up to the minute weather that is more accurate than the nuckleheaded, embellishing media put out. Course their biggest flaw is the time it takes to gather the information and feed it to the weather services, then the locals have to pull it up, write a script and air it. By then its old news and inaccurate.

Weather forcasters use models, computers, statistics, all that fancy equipment to predict. I watch what is actually happening, then predict.

On another note, anyone cut a green persimmon open yet? :lol:

 

[novatech]

Watch several weather radar maps, watch the movements, where the rains are, how far they are from me, speed distance. Sometimes a good guess.

Some of the sites I watch.

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Rad ... imate=true

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/inte ... ayer=radar

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26295161

http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hurric ... imate=true

http://www.intellicast.com/National/Rad ... on=default

http://weather.weatherbug.com/TX/Bryan- ... 263ec0ab82

Lots of places to get up to the minute weather that is more accurate than the nuckleheaded, embellishing media put out. Course their biggest flaw is the time it takes to gather the information and feed it to the weather services, then the locals have to pull it up, write a script and air it. By then its old news and inaccurate.

Weather forcasters use models, computers, statistics, all that fancy equipment to predict. I watch what is actually happening, then predict.

On another note, anyone cut a green persimmon open yet? :lol:

Try this one;
http://www.weather.com/outlook/events/s ... ation=true
Of course you will have to use your own ZIP code.

 

[1982vett]

Thanks novatech, the address is different but it links to one of the sites I posted. It is one my favorites, shows a lot of detail and is up the minute.

 

[Lammie]

Misting rain here. Winds are starting to pick up as I write this, although not anything dangerous. Stoopid weather idiots this morning, "Heavy rains of 1-3 inches". Maybe if it fell in fifteen minutes, but that aint what I call heavy rains.

I think the worst that will come of it here is that I will lose the DISH network for a while.

Anyone seen any footage of Surfside? I saw a pic of the big bridge going over to it from Lake Jackson from yesterday and it was water part of the way up. My son calls that the dinosaur bridge. The place where we vacationed is right over the other side. I guess it's probably gone.

Hope you that need rain get it.

 

[1982vett]

Hang in their Lammie, it hasn't taken that hard turn east like all of the predictions called for. Kind of looks to be on a NNW trajectory. You might turn out to be like us, 80 miles west of the center but 15 miles inside the 600 mile circle of rain.

Didn't rain hard enough for satellite tv to go out either.

 

[Jim62]

Had a 100% chance of 10 to 15 inches of rain today, as of yestiddy. So far we got none, but it is getting a little closer. Now they're saying we may get up to an inch. Even that would help.

Terrible down on the coast. I don't think anybody knows how bad it really is, yet.

 

[1982vett]

Just went out and check the rain guage. 3/4 inch in 4 hours. As Jim62 said, better than nothing. It is a 4 month record breaker. Winds are out of the west now @ 26.

 

[1982vett]

Looks to be pretty much over for us. Winds are SW @ 12 with total rainfall of 1 whole inch. Only damage I noticed was a pecan lost a limb less that 3" in diameter. Lot of leaves laying around, but they have been falling out of the trees for a couple weeks anyway.

 

[Oldtimer]

I just talked to my sister who is a little ways out of Austin- and she said they have gotten no rain- only a little wind...Enough wind to blow the leaves off the deck they wanted to work on...She and the brotherinlaw were out working on the corrals and fences to prepare for weaning calves...
Looks like old Himmicane Ike is going to spin on up thru the mideast and toward the great lakes with some moisture....
Not getting any Ike moisture here- but the Canucks did send us down some nice rain showers today- up to .5 of an inch now...

 

[Caustic Burno]

We got hammered by Ike not a fence standing, and I got off lucky tornadoes took out of a lot peoples stuff.

 

[1982vett]

Glad you made it thru Caustic.

 

[Jogeephus]

We got hammered by Ike not a fence standing, and I got off lucky tornadoes took out of a lot peoples stuff.

Sorry to hear that. Its bad to see your hard work get destroyed. Hang tuff.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

The fence building will be a pain CB, Glad to here you are alright.

 

[Lammie]

I wound up with a good three inches of rain. Sideways rain, mostly. It would stop for a while and then just pour like someone had a bucket up there for about ten minutes, then it would stop and repeat. All afrernoon. Sun's out, weather is lovely. I am looking forward to a break in the humidity.

CB, so glad you made it.

It was a bad storm, but really, it would have been much much worse.

 

[bigbull338]

i feel for you having to start rebuilding fences.the price of barbed wire will eat a deep hole in your pocket.

 

[kerley]

CB, so glad you made it with only fence damage. Could have been much worse. Hang in there. Tom