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Hurricane Ike Damage Pictures

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:45:00 +0000

We had 32 emails from people today looking for pictures from Hurricane Ike damage. Although the storm has not come ashore as of this blog post timestamp, we have dozens of Ike pictures being sent in to us. Below I have posted just a few of the images we have received thus far.

Hurricane Ike is right now a category 2 storm, with sustained winds of 105 miles per hour. Having said this, the storm surge of Ike is that of a high category four hurricane. We will continue to update this blog post with new pictures as we get them.

Below, Ike approaches the Texas Coast. Employees of the Galveston Flagship Hotel overlooking the Ocean watch as the water creeps up:

Below, is a picture from Galveston Island where a man walks in floodwater. The scary part is that the storm is over 13 hours away at the time of this picture:

Below is what is left of the Galveston Pier. Hurricane Ike, still hours away already wash all but a small portion of the pier away:

Last we show a picture of Galveston island where the storm surge has already caused extensive damage even though we are 6-8 hours away from landfall. A house is on fire, yet noone can protect it:

If you have any pictures that you happened to take, please post them here at profilesblog as a comment and we will be sure to add them to this post for the world to see. God bless all the people in the path of Hurricane Ike.

Galveston Web Cameras – WebCams

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:25:58 +0000

As Hurricane Ike approaches Galveston Texas, in what could be the worse hurricane for Galveston in 108 years, the internet world is looking for live webcams from Galveston. Cameras are places throughout the hurricane impact area for anyone with an internet connection to monitor. Below is a link to the main hub for the Galveston Web cams:

Galveston Texas Web Cameras

In 1900 Galveston Texas was struck by what was the worse natural disaster in United States History. Over 8,000 died in the monster storm. Hurricane Ike, already is inundating the Galveston coast with storm surge, which in many areas is expected to reach over 20-25 feet. Galveston Island will be completely under water for up to 18 hours, some experts claim. This could be a disaster that challenges that of Hurricane Katrina from 2005.

This category 2 storm has a category 4-5 storm surge associated. We expect that within 5-7 hours from now you will begin seeing cameras at the Galveston web cam site going down. We pray for everyone that decided to stay. Reports say that a good number of people have not evacuated. It is too late now. Stay tuned to profiles blog, as we will post new links to the latest web cameras from the Galveston and Houston areas. If you have a link we have not listed to a webcam, please feel free to comment on this blog post and we will immediately add it to out list.

Hurricane Ike Projected Path

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:16:13 +0000

Although, not officially Hurricane Ike as of yet, we do feel Tropical storm Ike will become a Hurricane within 24 hours. This Tropical season is off to an incredible start. Remember folks, September 10th is the Peak of the season, thus we are a good week away from the peak. Now, onto the projected path of Ike. The national hurricane center is predicting Ike to track pretty rapidly towards the west for the next 4 days then they expect the path to go slightly to the south of west.

Below I have pasted the current projected path that the NHC predicts will culminate over the next 5 days. The image below is constantly updated every 3 hours and will be for the remainder of the storm:

Ike is a storm that should start getting media attention here soon. Although we are more then 5 days out of any United states landfall, it looks like Ike could possibly track into the Gulf of Mexico, possibly over the peninsula of Florida sometime early next week. This could end up a very dangerous path if in fact Florida is also affected by Hurricane Hanna, which the National Hurricane center is currently predicting.

Now that we gave you the projected path, lets talk intensity. Currently the experts predict that Ike will be somewhere in the Bahama’s come Sunday September 7th with possible maximum sustained winds at around 90-100 Miles per hour, making this a strong category 2 Hurricane. All interests along the United States Gulf and Atlantic Coasts need to follow the developments of Ike, and make sure you have your safety kits prepared in case the path takes him your way.

As a side note, the current track of Ike looks all too familiar to the one Hurricane Andrew took back in the 1990′s. I sure hope the outcome isn’t the same.