Comments on: After Ike – the Return, the Missing, and a Heckuva Job http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:00:00 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: WilliamOckham http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1652229 WilliamOckham Sat, 27 Sep 2008 04:38:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1652229 <p>Took me awhile to get back and I don’t know if anybody is still on this thread, but there’s a couple of things to remember. This part of the gulf coast went for a long time without a major hurricane. It was over 20 years between Alicia and Rita. Rita was mostly a non-event in the Houston-Galveston area; the evacuation was far worse than the storm. Unfortunately nobody remembers that until just a few hours before the storm hit, the storm’s path could’ve come in almost exactly where Ike hit.</p> <p>Also, with Ike only being a Cat 2 storm, many people underestimated the huge storm surge which comes from the size of the storm and it’s angle to the coast. All that adds up to too many people ignoring evacuation orders.</p> Took me awhile to get back and I don’t know if anybody is still on this thread, but there’s a couple of things to remember. This part of the gulf coast went for a long time without a major hurricane. It was over 20 years between Alicia and Rita. Rita was mostly a non-event in the Houston-Galveston area; the evacuation was far worse than the storm. Unfortunately nobody remembers that until just a few hours before the storm hit, the storm’s path could’ve come in almost exactly where Ike hit.

Also, with Ike only being a Cat 2 storm, many people underestimated the huge storm surge which comes from the size of the storm and it’s angle to the coast. All that adds up to too many people ignoring evacuation orders.

]]> By: mklitt http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1651310 mklitt Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:07:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1651310 <p>It may not seem important in light of the possiblity that so many people may have been killed by Ike, but for those residents of the Bolivar Peninsula who returned home only today; it is already too late to reclaim their rescued animals. All animals held in Beaumont will be adopted out tomorrow. All rescued animals were eligilble to be put up for adoption after ten days. </p> <p>Too bad Bolivar Peninsula. See how your fellow Texans looked out for you? If you have questions, call the Houston SPCA Animal Disaster Hotline (713) 435-2990</p> It may not seem important in light of the possiblity that so many people may have been killed by Ike, but for those residents of the Bolivar Peninsula who returned home only today; it is already too late to reclaim their rescued animals. All animals held in Beaumont will be adopted out tomorrow. All rescued animals were eligilble to be put up for adoption after ten days.

Too bad Bolivar Peninsula. See how your fellow Texans looked out for you? If you have questions, call the Houston SPCA Animal Disaster Hotline (713) 435-2990

]]> By: Hugh http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650134 Hugh Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:19:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650134 <p>Thanks, Peterr, for the updates on this forgotten story.</p> Thanks, Peterr, for the updates on this forgotten story.

]]> By: Rick DeVille http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650128 Rick DeVille Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:11:40 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650128 <p>…and I see YOU here, so the oak’s on both of us.</p> …and I see YOU here, so the oak’s on both of us.

]]> By: Petrocelli http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650110 Petrocelli Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:59:53 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650110 <p><strong>((((( Lindy )))))</strong></p> ((((( Lindy )))))

]]> By: Lindy http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650109 Lindy Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:58:57 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650109 <p>Hey, Margot. I’m back in New Orleans.</p> Hey, Margot. I’m back in New Orleans.

]]> By: Petrocelli http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650102 Petrocelli Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:56:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650102 <p>LOL … asked that to some friends of mine living near Houston and their answer was, “Not soon enough !”</p> LOL … asked that to some friends of mine living near Houston and their answer was, “Not soon enough !”

]]> By: Elliott http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650101 Elliott Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:55:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650101 <p>I see you here, looking like spalted maple<br /> aHAHAHAHA</p> I see you here, looking like spalted maple
aHAHAHAHA

]]> By: Rick DeVille http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650099 Rick DeVille Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:52:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650099 <p>Oh, sure…go all reality-based on me. Moment of levity, there.</p> <p>Refineries are often located in probable hurricane paths. Seacoast seems to be their chosen habitat.</p> <p>And things are certainly problematic and costly for the folks who once called this particular place home.</p> Oh, sure…go all reality-based on me. Moment of levity, there.

Refineries are often located in probable hurricane paths. Seacoast seems to be their chosen habitat.

And things are certainly problematic and costly for the folks who once called this particular place home.

]]> By: Peterr http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650097 Peterr Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:52:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/26/after-ike-the-return-the-missing-and-a-heckuva-job/#comment-1650097 <p><strong>Petro!!</strong></p> <p>* * * </p> <p>Too many.</p> <p><em>This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.</em></p> Petro!!

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Too many.

This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

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