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Interesting photos of Ike's damage!!

sealark — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:34:50 GMT

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html

Make sure you scroll all the way through.

looks like another one might be forming soon

fish24/7 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:44:55 GMT

Oil prices fell below $97 a barrel on Monday after Hurricane Ike inflicted minimal damage!

Stressless — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:26:11 GMT

LONDON — Oil prices fell below $97 a barrel on Monday after Hurricane Ike inflicted minimal damage to oil installations on the Texas coast.

Light, sweet crude for October delivery declined $4.39 to $96.79 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by noon in Europe. The contract rose 31 cents on Friday to settle at $101.18 after dropping as low as $99.99 per barrel. Before that, the last time Nymex crude traded below the $100 mark was April 2.

I saw the PINK FLAMINGO (my pics included)!!!

reelfinatical — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:01:35 GMT

I went over to Norriego Point about an hour ago to walk and look around. Of course the water is coming over the sea walls...some of the docks are water level...pretty much like it was in Gustav right now.

Well, I was walking along the water's edge, sand pelting me in the face with the gusts.. I happened to look up. I stopped DEAD in my tracks.. lol.. It took a few seconds for it to register in my head - it was the PINK FLAMINGO people have been talking about! Thank the LORD I had my camera. I didn't want to get too close and spook it, so I think I took about 50 pictures of it so I would make sure to get a good shot. lol. I used Google Picasa to zoom into the pics... Enjoy.

PS - If you want to see it yourself... the flamingo was on Norriego Point...Pass side, at the first "beach" towards the Harbor/Pass entrance.

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Other IKE pics:

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What gives these guys the right???

Framerguy — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:01:52 GMT

I am sitting here listening to the Weather Channel's latest on-the-scene "reporting" of Hurricane Ike's progress since it came on shore. And Specifically Mike Siddell's shoddy speculative reporting on towns that he hasn't even visited nor had any updated information since yesterday afternoon, what is he thinking???

He is talking about the storm surge and uses phrases like "so that town should be decimated by now", or "I expect those homes will be flattened" or "there probably is nothing left of that area of town" when referring to specific towns, areas of towns, and specific housing developments!!! My God!! How does he think people who have relatives and friends who live there or the residents themselves would feel hearing that their entire town is "decimated"???? That is some of the poorest quality speculative reporting that I have seen lately and I think that those on-the-spot reporters are doing a grave disservice to bringing the public objective coverage of a natural disaster!!! To take random guesses as to the condition of someone's living area is just not called for in my opinion when they don't even have any factual information to substantiate their reporting!

I can understand the melodramatic effects that they tend to use when they are suddenly blown off their feet by a gust of wind but, let's get real people, what the hell are they doing standing out in a full fledged hurricane anyway trying to shout above the screaming wind about the flying debris that is slapping against the buildings and all the glass shards that are flying around threatening their very life and limbs?????

GET INSIDE AND FIND A SAFE PLACE TO REPORT, YA DUMBASS!!!

Do y'all consider this to be good quality reporting or are these "weather glory hunters" going a bit overboard to enhance their otherwise boring day to day job??? I have heard very very little of a positive note from any of them on how the evacuation helped or what the local LEO's are doing to help out or any other positive notes to help with an otherwise very destructive storm, possibly the most devastating storm of this season!

There was a female reporter on Fox that was reporting from the stairwell of the hotel that she took shelter in and she was one of the very few smart reporters that I heard so far this morning!

Some Ike pics around Destin

Sailor50 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:19:09 GMT

Feel sorry for Texas when Ike hits, these are some pics around Destin today

The ramp at Joe's Bayou this morning

The East Jetty

Looking west from the East Jetty across the Destin east pass to the West Jetty

Looking east along the beach at Jetty East Condo. There used to be over a hundred foot of beach in front of it. Looked like the whole south side is now in the ocean. That little pile of sand on the left is all that is left of a 10-15'high berm they put there a few months ago when they dredged the East Pass.

The houses on the beach in Destin Pointe

East Jetty, looking west

Looking north from the East Jetty toward the Destin Bridge as a wave hits the spur jetty

Some beach walk-overs

The Crab Trap on Scenic Hwy98. Waves are up to the dunes.

Awesome Video....

Austin — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:11:55 GMT

This video shows some VERY detailed pictures of recent major hurricanes from the NASA International Space Station. Notice Ivan comes up more than any other... :doh Really cool video though, here's the link!

[url=http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid823425597/bclid877032950/bctid1786938259]NASA Hurricane Vid[/url]

okaloosa island closed

croakerchoker — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:38:25 GMT

anybody got any word about it?

Redfish Riviera weather updates

Redfish Riviera — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:14:22 GMT

Hurricane Ike

Posted September 1, 2008 @ 4:40 pm by steve, Filed under: Uncategorized

…LARGE HURRICANE IKE HEADING TOWARD THE NORTHWESTERN GULF OF
MEXICO…

A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM THE
MISSISSIPPI-ALABAMA BORDER WESTWARD TO EAST OF CAMERON LOUISIANA. A
TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE
EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

A HURRICANE WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM CAMERON LOUISIANA WESTWARD
TO PORT MANSFIELD TEXAS. HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN
THE WATCH AREA BY LATE FRIDAY.

FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA…INCLUDING POSSIBLE
INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS…PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED
BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.

AT 700 AM CDT…1200Z…THE CENTER OF HURRICANE IKE WAS LOCATED NEAR
LATITUDE 25.3 NORTH…LONGITUDE 88.0 WEST OR ABOUT 575 MILES…920
KM…EAST OF BROWNSVILLE TEXAS AND ABOUT 270 MILES…435 KM…
SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

IKE IS MOVING TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH…16 KM/HR.
A GENERAL WEST-NORTHWESTWARD MOTION OVER THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN
GULF OF MEXICO IS EXPECTED TODAY AND FRIDAY. ON THIS TRACK THE
CENTER WILL BE APPROACHING THE NORTHWESTERN GULF OF MEXICO COAST
LATE FRIDAY.

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 100 MPH…160 KM/HR…WITH HIGHER
GUSTS. IKE IS A CATEGORY TWO HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON
SCALE…AND IT COULD INTENSIFY INTO A CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE OVER
THE NEXT DAY OR TWO.

IKE IS A LARGE TROPICAL CYCLONE. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND
OUTWARD UP TO 115 MILES…185 KM…FROM THE CENTER…AND TROPICAL
STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 255 MILES…410 KM.

AIR FORCE AND NOAA HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT REPORT THAT THE MINIMUM
CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 945 MB…27.91 INCHES.

COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 3 TO 5 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE
LEVELS…ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS WAVES…CAN BE
EXPECTED WITHIN THE TROPICAL STORM WARNING AREA. ABOVE NORMAL
TIDES OF 2 TO 4 FEET ARE EXPECTED ELSEWHERE ALONG MUCH OF THE
NORTHERN COAST OF THE GULF OF MEXICO DURING THE NEXT DAY OR
SO…BUT WILL BE INCREASING ALONG THE WESTERN GULF COAST AS IKE
APPROACHES.

IKE IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES OVER
SOUTHERN LOUISIANA AND THE EXTREME NORTHERN YUCATAN PENINSULA.

REPEATING THE 700 AM CDT POSITION…25.3 N…88.0 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD…WEST-NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…100
MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…945 MB.

THE NEXT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL
HURRICANE CENTER AT 1000 AM CDT.

$
FORECASTER FRANKLIN

High Water in Bayou Chico

oldflathead — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:04:36 GMT

High tide was at about 0900, 1.8 ft., but Ike is still pushing water into the bayou. Our dock is normally about 3' above mean tide, now it is underwater by a few inches.

We have already rescued two kayaks that drifted down from an upwind neighbor's dock.

Check your dock lines as we may have this for two days.

Tom

IKE compared to Katrina....

deeptracks — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:00:00 GMT

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1080&tstamp=200809

Hurricane Ike

Brad K — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:33:39 GMT

Hey guy's. I am not a weather man nor do I claim to be one, and I didn't stay in Holiday Inn Express last night. But............................Does it look like to anyone else that the storm has taken a more Northerly track over the last couple of hours?

Crystal Beach - Hurricane IKE pics

Sailor50 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:08:46 GMT

Walked down to the old Crystal Beach Pier (Destin) this morning, waves already higher than they were in Gustav. Was going to head out to the Destin Bridge and see if i could get a redfish,but maybe another day. Heard that Hwy 98 on Okaloosa island is partially closed now too for high tides. Still consider us lucky though.

Looking east down the beach from old pier

The old Crystal Beach pier.The beach was about 40' past the last piling a month ago.

LOOK OUT NBTWIL

FLYBOY — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:04:21 GMT

Wil, I'm glad it followed you to Texas:poke Anyway bug out and come back home if it looks like a direct hit....stay safe and let us know how you are when its over.

TS Ike

weatherman — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:00:52 GMT

I will take a good, hard look tomorrow at work and see what I can gather.

Check out this weather site

river rat — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:56:53 GMT

http://www.bearpawsweather.com/tropical/

Live Cuban Radar (Gran Piedra)

Orion45 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:49:47 GMT

Ike over Cuba.

http://www.insmet.cu/asp/genesis.asp?TB0=PLANTILLAS&TB1=RADAR&TB2=../Radar/06Gran%20Piedra/gpdMAXw01a.gif

Shelter in MS

Mikvi — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:10:45 GMT

If anyone has the need I live 4 miles in coast in MS and didn't get damage from Katrina or Gustav. I have 3 acres to store boats. By Road I'm 133 miles from P'Cola and 1.5 mile's south of I-10 - 2 hr drive. Good luck to all.

If anyone has the need...

H2OMARK — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:10:22 GMT

to evacuate b/c of the storm, I will be happy to accomodate as many people as possible. My house is humble but we can make do. I can be reached either by PM or cell. 334.412.7630. Forgot to add, I am about 2 1/2 hours inland, little town called Orrville outside of Selma, AL

Mark

Hurricane Prep

crazyfire — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:01:24 GMT

Well as the storm seems to be getting closer...instead of sitting here wasting my day on the forum...if any of yall need help preparing for the storm...just let me know. Im unemployed as of now...so i would rather help people then watch the price is right with my mom daily lol.

Jeff

Sand Bags

TOBO — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:04:47 GMT

Anyone know where they are giving them out? I am off Gulf Brach Hwy.

How is the P'cola Beach Pier?

Spanish_Mackman — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:47:49 GMT

Anyone ventured out to the P'cola Beach pier yet? Just wondering how it did through Gustav.

Josephine

weatherman — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:32:13 GMT

Looking at long range models TD ten looks to of course strengthen and make landfall near Corpus Christi TX on the 18th. Way too long out to tell though, be interesting to see how this model works out so I will post how it does as a not so scientific experiment.

Yikes look at IKE

snivlem — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:58:25 GMT

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Cat 3 at Hispaniola on GFDL

Keeping an eye on this one, I'm headed down to perdido the 12th.....

Sherman Cove condition

sealark — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:14:30 GMT

Went to Sherman Cove at Noon and there wasen't any damage to any wet or dry storage boats. Just high water in parking lot as pictured.

Gustav Destin Photos & Video Clips

reelfinatical — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:56:57 GMT

Destin MWR.

We drove up to Ft Benning Rec area to walk out on their pier & see the Bay this morning. We turned the corner and over by their marina we saw this familiar boat sitting on its trailer. Low and behold after further investigation, it turned out to be our old boat, the first Reel Finatical! It felt so strange. The closer we got to her the more we saw our old dents, amateur patchwork on the hull, the stuff I had changed out last summer... wow!!.. We were told it had been shipped to Ft Lauderdale, but I think that was BS. It felt weird, like reuniting with a family member! lol All those memories started flooding our minds. Almost a year later & she's sitting behind our house almost - too cool. =) I wonder who the new owners are - military visiting from GA or MS maybe? Anyone know the Keep R Wet family?

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Mattie Kelley Park Pier:

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Norriego Point @ 10:30am: Water was over the seawall at that last condo.

Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7947260456574666284&hl=en

Pic:

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Okaloosa Island - some guy wanted to surf but the lifeguard turned him away, lol.

Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=703063199263121725&hl=en

Pic:

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Gustav Photos

weatherman — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:59:36 GMT

Went out this morning to take a few photos, these were around 10am. The first one is looking East in East Bay, water was up about a foot and a half.

This one is from Navarre Beach, was wondering where the surfers were??

Another Navarre Beach.....

Navarre causeway looking East.

Cocodrie/Houma LA report

tigerbait — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:09:51 GMT

I talked with a fishing buddy for over 20 years who lives south of Houma. He had just come off his roof and had bloody knees. He was glad he stayed so he could repair the roof damage pronto without more occuring. He said he hasn't received much info on damage up and down the bayou. Capt. Joe Schoeust is doing fine. If he sends pics I will post them. If anyone has more info on this area, please post.

Storm Surge/ Wave Height Question

jd10135 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:48:51 GMT

Sea level is at elevation 0. At normal high tide maybe its at about elevation +1. At low tide, maybe its at about elevation -1. Storm surge in Destin is predicted to be 3 feet. I take it that this means it will rise to 3 feet above normal high and low tides. So if it hits at low tide, the sea level will rise to about elevation +2. If it hits at high tide, the sea level will rise to about elevation +4. Is this true?

Simultaneous to the storm surge of 3 feet, I read that seas will be 25 feet.

Does this mean that, where the depth to the bottom of the seafloor is deep enough to accomodate the 25 foot waves without them collapsing ont themselves, the peak of the waves will rise to elevation 12.5 and that the nadir of the waves will be at elevation -12.5?

What will keep the 25 foot waves from hitting the shore and creating a surge much higher than the predicted 3 feet, and how do you translate the surge into an actual elevation.

Why I ask: A friend owns a condo on Holiday Isle, whose parking level is at elevation +7. The marine forecast calls for 25 foot seas in the "near coastal" waters. The predicted storm surge is 3 feet. Assuming the seas do in fact get to 25 feet, and the storm surge is in fact 3 feet, will the parking level at elevation +7 remain dry?

Thanks fellow nerds...

Gustav Forms

Telum Piscis — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:38:15 GMT

We now have a nice sized hurricane Gustav. Track models below should automatically update and be the current model runs.

Here is a animated NHC forecast. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2008/graphics/al07/loop_5W.shtml

Check out Bouy #42003 !!!

Boardfeet — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:20:30 GMT

Wave height 24.6'

wave period 9.7 sec

Glad I'm not there....Going to keep an eye on this bouy today..

www.ndbc.noaa.gov/maps/Florida.shtml

hurricane drinking game

croakerchoker — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:47:02 GMT

certain words ya have to drink on: cone of uncertainity, feeder bands, hunker down, storm surge. anybody got any other good ones. flying debris is a 2X drink.

time to prepare for Gustav

basscve-mo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:13:06 GMT

I live 12 hours away in Missouri...what do the forum veterans think is the earliest/latest i should get to Gulf Breeze before Gustav hits? Do you think that if it slips west a bit we still need to secure boats off of lifts and such? Can you tell I'm a first timer? Love the forum and have learned alot about fishing...any help out there? thanks in advance!!:bowdown

Camper parking.....

Tuna Man — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:24:19 GMT

My brother in law lives outside McComb MS. He is in Vazoo City at a family reunion at the moment (Susan couldn't make the 5 hour one way trip) and has to leave as soon as he can, we just got off the phone with them. He has Harley biker friends coming up from the coast to park their campers (5 so far waiting on his return) and wait out the storm. I know he would welcome anyone of my forum family to hitch a spot in his LARGE ...Very Large, homestead. Should any of you need a parking spot please don't stay and call me and I'll see about setting up one up for you. 17 miles off I-55 at exit 20. He probably has enough room for a couple hundred.

Where to go?

Mikvi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:52:56 GMT

Several of us from the MS coast are planning to come your way if the predicted track comes true. Any suggestions where to put 45ft boats (I hope haven't left myself too open with that). I have a 22ft at Sherman Cove they may make me move anyway. Unfortunatley, a close friend just passed away and I've taken responsibility for his immaculate 45 ft Carver cruiser. His daughter has given me a free hand in what I think is best. If we are told to evacuate boats and the storm heads west, I just wanted some ideas where to go inthe P?C area. The family is well off and covering all fuel and docking.

Thanks

in need of place to park a couple boats

fishinmagician — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:40:11 GMT

I need to park a couple boats out of flood level, if anyone can offer any suggestions, it would be appreciated. Thanx Andy

hmmm

snakeman14 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:33:05 GMT

is it just me or has anybody else noticed that all the major storms lately have been named with russian names?

ivan katrina now gustav

Hanna

38bat — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:13:44 GMT

Looks like Hanna is getting going.... any early predictions?

Uh Oh!

GAHUNTER — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:26:58 GMT

Just when you thought you had dodged the bullet, someone reloads the damned gun!

http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?partner=accuweather&blog=Meteomadness&pgurl=/mtweb/content/Meteomadness/archives/2008/08/gustav_tuesday_as_a_cat_4_hanna_friday_as_a_cat_3_ike_tuesday_the_9th.asp

double trouble?!

Austin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:53:45 GMT

I'd hate to even think this, but is it a possibility we could be looking at a double-header with Gustav here in NW FL, and Hannah on the East Coast of FL?. I know, its too soon to tell but just looking at the paths and weather patterns, it just seems like the state of FL is a tropical storm/hurricane magnet this year. Let's hope this is just the coffee and the drama on TWC rubbing off on me... I'd just hate to think of what the state would look like after the massive rainfall of Fay, and 2 possible major hurricanes... This is not a prediction, just a thought and something to think about..