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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Houston 90 Red ZR-1
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Hurricane Ike.
Hurricane Ike is comming right up our back door. All of the gas stations in my area are emty. So I'm just going to jack the car up as high as I can in the garage and hunker down. We are still 68 miles from the coast but fema says that Ike is no joke. We are looking at 85mph winds. I just hope I don't regret staying.
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: lone pine and mammoth lakes
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Re: Hurricane Ike.
have faith you will be ok .i hope
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Re: Hurricane Ike.
All of my years in Houston, the worst of the hurricanes was the lack of drainage. That being said we never had a problem with flooding in either of the houses we had.
Jack it up and ride it out. And beware of the cottonwood trees. |
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Houston 90 Red ZR-1
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Re: Hurricane Ike.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Spring TX
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Re: Hurricane Ike.
Do you have a generator etc. You are still very likely to be without power for a while, even with underground utilities, all of the main power grid are on High Tension Lines all over the city, they will be subjected to the wind at its greatest strength. Power companies will be coming down from the north after the storm to get everything going again, but the last time I went through one, it was Aleisha in 1983 I think, and we lost power for a week or so. I remember my mom taking us up to Conroe just to get Ice and a Coke. I was just a kid then. You neighborhood isn't likely to flood but stay away from I-10...it is usually turrned into a river. Or, if you want some insurance money get your car out there and flood that sucka.
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Houston 90 Red ZR-1
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Re: Hurricane Ike.
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Spring TX
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Re: Hurricane Ike.
yeah...i rememeber that...its happened a few times
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Texas
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Re: Hurricane Ike.
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: McHenry, Il.
Posts: 6,607
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Re: Hurricane Ike.
GOOD LUCK
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Jacksonville, FL USA
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Re: Hurricane Ike.
I'll keep you guys down Houston way in my thoughts....good luck & be safe!
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