What A Hurricane Does To You
Going through Hurricane Ike was pretty rough. The winds were howling all through the storm but the worst part was to come around after the storm was done and see what had happened. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get any video during the storm just because of how bad it was. The winds were probably 70mph or greater and the added rain just made it that much worse. Conditions were really bad and driving around just made it that much more visible.
- 2.5 Million people do not have power and there were many down power lines
- Thousands of people lost their homes and cleaning up the mess can take 2 weeks
- About 400,000 Customers of Entenergy can be without power for 2 weeks
- Water is not safe to drink and most have to boil the water and let it cool before drinking
- Several schools are closed the entire week
- Roads are not accessible because of uprooted trees
- Fights are breaking out due to the lack of gas at gas stations
- Food Supplies are hard to find
- Restaurant and Drive Thru’s have hundreds of customers waiting to get food/drinks
Well, here are some pictures to help you visualize the kind of damage that I have seen. Please remember, that I am not in the worst part of the storm. As a matter of fact, I was actually one of the lucky ones.
People waiting outside a local grocery store for food/water/ice
There are still a lot of people that dont have water or electricity so I’m really glad to have been up and running the day after the hurricane. I hope everyone in my reading audience is still around. I’ll be back to posting as usual starting today/tomorrow so I hope you’re looking forward to that. Hope all of you had a great weekend!
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about 3 years ago
It certainly caused a lot of devastation! How close to the actual path of Ike are you located?
FYI, there’s a great series of pics showing more Ike devastation at the Big Picture blog.
about 3 years ago
that crushed car garage image is pretty striking.
about 3 years ago
It has been my experience, that those huge trees were probably uproot by some tornadoes. Having living here in New Orleans, i have been thru several hurricanes, including Katrina. When a hurricane is heading towards you, you get the f*ck out. Please dont stay and “tough” it out. Not only are you causing strain on yourself, you are causing strain on the emergency helpers that have got to come rescue your ass afterwards. I saw too much of that with Katrina. Gustav wasnt as bad as Katrina was but I was being responsible and getting the heck out. I have kids and I value life too much to try and stay. Better safe than sorry.
I am terribly sorry for my rant, Enkay but this is a very touchy subject for me. I am sadden by the devestation caused by hurricanes no matter where they land. It is always hard to watch.
I should post up some of my Katrina pictures in my Gallery.
about 3 years ago
Good that we don’t have any hurricane’s in India!
about 3 years ago
Good thing that you are safe and sound. We had alot of hurricanes in florida also in 2004. They are insane.
about 3 years ago
Wow man…glad you are okay, it must be a crazy situation to be in, especially for all those without power/water and that lost their homes.
about 3 years ago
Thanks Joe. Its definitely a weird feeling when you drive around and see entire communities and roadways without any power.
about 3 years ago
Its okay and I thank you for that rant. A lot of people in the mandatory evacuation zones want to “brave” it out and it doesn’t end up being a good situation for them. Also, those who didn’t have mandatory evacuation and decided to leave were just screwing up the traffic for the rest of the folks so I can understand. I was in a non-mandatory evacuation zone so I stayed where I was but people just don’t listen to directions anymore.
On another note, I’d like to see your Katrina pictures!
about 3 years ago
Great link there Martin. I appreciate it. I was about 10 miles west of the eye of the storm but considering the storm was the size of Texas I was pretty heavily affected. To put it into perspective, my community of 300 homes was the only community in my neighborhood of 10,000+ homes that actually had power much before today. Some of those homes still don’t have power and thats just my neighborhood!
about 3 years ago
What kinda crazy are you to be out driving around in the middle of a hurricane with heavy rain and 70mph winds?!?!
about 3 years ago
I wasn’t driving around at that time, I drove around after the storm was done. The winds were 70mph during the high time of the storm in my neighborhood.