Hurricane Ike -All safe!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Prayers flying from me for everyone in this storms path. Galveston is really getting hammered!

[Felicia's Mom]

Sending prayers to everyone in the path of Hurricane Ike.

[boomersooner]

I'm 300 miles away in Dallas, and we are supposed to get tons of rain and wind from Ike. I think the path will take Ike a little east of us, so we won't get hammered as bad as east Texas from it. It is huge storm. I heard today that the eye is 90 miles wide!!!

[Karen]

Still thinking of all of you being affected by Ike. Check in when you can, okay?

[chocolatepuppy]

Prayers for everyone in the path of Ike.

[catfamily]

Prayers going strong for everyone in harms way.
Now it is saying that all rescue workers are leaving and there
will be noone answering any help me calls.
also said that it is manditory that people that stayed behind where social security ID's on their arms!

[AllAmericanPUP]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/0...xas/index.html

Weather service warns of 'certain death' in face of Ike
Sept. 12, 2008
8:15 am

HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Residents along Galveston Bay in Texas "face certain death" if they don't leave home before Hurricane Ike roars ashore, the National Weather Service warns.

Rarely do forecasters use such forceful language.

The last time they did was three years ago as Hurricane Katrina closed in on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

Forecasters expect Ike, a Category 2 storm, to strengthen before its center makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday. The storm is so big that it fills most of the Gulf of Mexico.

Roughly 3.5 million people live in the storm's impact zone, according to federal estimates.

The weather service painted a vivid picture in its warning of the destruction it expects: a towering wall of water, possibly up to 22 feet high, crashing over the Galveston Bay shoreline as the brunt of Ike comes ashore. That wall of water could send floodwaters surging into Houston, more than 20 miles inland.

"All neighborhoods ... and possibly entire coastal communities ... will be inundated during the peak storm tide," the weather service warned. "Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single family one- or two-story homes will face certain death."....



....Still, not everyone was heeding the weather service warnings.

"I've decided not to evacuate," said iReporter Matteu Erchull on Galveston Island. "We have a lot of faith in the seawall, and we have boards on the windows. Most people on the island live on second or third stories, so they don't have to worry about the water so much.

"The actual stores down here ran out of sand so we took some ice bags and filled them with sand from the beach," he said....

I was in Hurricane Camille in 1969...in the process of getting the heck out and still got hit by her. It was like being in an F-5 tornado that would not stop!!

[Scooter's Mom]

My brother and his girls are in San Antonio.
The service my granny signed on with never picked her up. But we didn't know that until everyone was gone.

She's 84, can barely walk and is ALONE in a fairly flood prone area...
I am beside myself with worry. Please, please... say a prayer for my granny.

She is very religious. She says she is comfortable with the fact that she is at her house... I've been crying all night. Nobody can go get her now, and I'm 1200 miles away. Her name is Juanita.

[Karen]

We'll keep your grandma in our prayers. Does her house have a second floor?

[Scooter's Mom]

We'll keep your grandma in our prayers. Does her house have a second floor?

No.
It's a wood frame house, 950 sq ft., that was built in 1956. It has survived hurricanes before, of even greater magnitude than this... but it's the flooding I'm so worried about.

I'm watching some of the traffic cams in the area until they stop functioning. My husband says I'm obsessing. I've always been really close to my granny... and just cannot bear the thought of her alone during this storm.

[Emeraldgreen]

No.
It's a wood frame house, 950 sq ft., that was built in 1956. It has survived hurricanes before, of even greater magnitude than this... but it's the flooding I'm so worried about.

I'm watching some of the traffic cams in the area until they stop functioning. My husband says I'm obsessing. I've always been really close to my granny... and just cannot bear the thought of her alone during this storm.

I'm so sorry to hear that your grandmother is still at her house without a way to get out. I do not think you are obsessing at all!! She is family and I would be worried too. I'm praying that someone can help her soon. And if she is unable to leave, praying that her home will not become flooded and that she will be safe. Please keep us updated. {{{hugs}}}

[Scooter's Mom]

My husband just lectured me on how "ridiculous" I am being.
I think that now is not a good time for him to be a jerk, when the lives of my family ... almost my entire family at that ... are at risk due to this hurricane.

*sigh*

[AllAmericanPUP]

I'm sorry your grandmother is still at her house and I'm sorry your husband is a jerk, sometimes people don't know how hard terrifying it is until they are in your shoes.
I hope your grandmother is fine and will make it through this

[Karen]

Tell Grandma that if the water starts coming in, do her best to move a chair with arms and a pillow and blanket into the tub, as it will keep water out as long as it doesn't get higher than the tub walls. Staying dry is a priority at her age. Tell her we'll be praying for her!

[cyber-sibes]

Prayers for everyone in Ike's path, and especially for your Granny Juanita, I truly pray she'll be safe. The reports on tv look bad, I'll be praying for those kitties that were left outside, too.