Hurricane IKE: A Survivor's Chronological and Contemplative Narration of the Great Storm of Galveston, 2008
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Hamburger chain Jack in the Box Inc. reported late Wednesday fiscal fourth-quarter net income rose to $40.6 million, or 70 cents a share, from $26.9 million, or 48 cents, a year ago, helped by improved margins, franchise sales and lower food costs. The year-ago results were hurt by charges stemming from Hurricane Ike storm damage. Revenue for the three months ended Sept....
Personal Hurricane Center (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
After writing pretty much every morning for the past few months, I decided to take a little break. It helps there are no tropical systems running the Earth (well, except Tropical Cyclone Phyan which struck India’s Arabian coast just south of Mumbai, Maharashtra this morning). As long as there are no active cyclones posts will come [...] Hurricane Ida Preliminary Report coming Personal Hurricane...
Personal Hurricane Center (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Surface observations at Mobile Bay, Alabama and surrounding areas indicate Tropical Storm Ida is coming ashore. The system is in the middle of an extratropical transition, however, which, thanks to a frontal zone is creating the heavier rains further to the north. Tropical Storm Ida coming ashore this hour in Mobile Bay, Alabama Personal Hurricane Center - Current and Archived Information on Atlantic...
Personal Hurricane Center (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Mountains disrupt inflow and moisture content available to reach a tropical cyclone. That is why Tropical Depression Ida looks the way it does. Mountain and land versus hurricane – I’ll take odds on the land Personal Hurricane Center - Current and Archived Information on Atlantic and East Pacific tropical cyclones and hurricanes Ida near hurricane strength off Nicaragua Couldn’t Resist...
Gulf Coast Hurricane Tracker (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Typhoon Melor has continued its slow trek towards japan and is is now poised to strile within the next several hours. I am sure that heavy rain and thunderstorms are already drenching the area. Typhoon melor had reached a super typhoon strength with sustained winds as high as 156 MPH and gusts over 165 MPH. This storm dropped to category 3 strength the other day and has now dropped further to a Cat...
Docuticker (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Hurricane Ike Rapid Needs Assessment — Houston, Texas, September 2008 Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC) On the morning of September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall on the upper Texas Gulf coast at Galveston Island as a category 2 storm, with hurricane force winds extending 125 miles from its center (1). As the storm [...]
Climateer Investing (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
From Bloomberg: Insurers including Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc . and American International Group Inc. benefited from the absence of third-quarter storms this year after paying $12.5 billion in claims on Hurricane Ike in 2008. The hurricane season has yielded a single U.S. landfall, Tropical Storm Claudette, which struck Florida last month. By this time in 2008, Hurricane Dolly had...
Live Science (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
When Hurricane Ike attacked Texas, it echoed a super-storm one century ago; a terrifying deja vu of the deadliest natural disaster in American history.
Hope Radio (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
As everyone knows, Hurricane Ike slammed Galveston Island about this time last year. The storm took it's toll and is still taking its toll on the island's economy and the beautiful oak trees that lined public buildings and esplanades. The wind wasn't nearly as damaging as the salt water that seeped into the ground and poisoned these often 100 year old natural umbrellas which spread across many of
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
The decision not to evacuate 1,000 prisoners from the Galveston County Jail as Hurricane Ike approached put them in peril and subjected them to inhumane conditions after the storm passed, according to a report by a Texas civil rights organization.
IndyStar.com (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
If this week's weather forecast of warm temperatures and sunshine seems boring, remember Hurricane Ike, a storm that came close to blowing parts of the city away.
another wine blog (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
Death came howling on the ocean Death calls you gotta go Galveston had a sea wall to keep the water down and a high tide from the ocean spread the water over the town Wasn’t that a Mighty Storm Wasn’t that a Mighty Storm Wasn’t that a Mighty Storm It blew the people all away You know the trumpets gave in the morning You better [...]
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
GALVESTON, Texas | Hurricane Ike was the perfect, bad-timing storm. When it blew hell on this Gulf of Mexico county on Sept. 13, 2008, its 20-foot storm surge ripping away whole beach communities, the ravages came at a time when the nation's attention was focused on an impinging economic meltdown and a hard-fought presidential election. In the aftermath of the third costliest storm in hurricane history,...
Global Warming (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Atlanta (September 8, 2009) —Tornadoes that occur from hurricanes moving inland from the Gulf Coast are increasing in frequency, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. This increase seems to reflect the increase in size and frequency among large hurricanes that make landfall from the Gulf of Mexico. The findings can be found in Geophysical Research Letters online and...
Forgetfulone (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
One year ago, Hurricane Ike hit our coast and ravaged through Texas and farther north. We were lucky. Others were not. In fact, my friend Kris is still dealing with the aftermath of Ike. We evacuated at the last minute and drove south, away from where the storm would make landfall, to Corpus Christi. We stayed there two days. We returned to find only minor roof damage and, of course, a missing fence....
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