Prayers for the Folks in South Texas
September 12th, 2008 by Syd
Time to do it.
…and Louisiana, too…
…and yes, Geraldo can be an idiot sometimes, but he’s fun.
…in the morning:
It looks damned bad, but maybe not as bad as many people feared.
As it turns out, the storm surge was about half of what was predicted:
…Hydrologist Benton McGee from the U.S. Geological Survey says the highest storm surge will probably remain 13.5 feet at Sabine Pass in Texas.
He says a 5-foot storm surge was recorded in the Houston area. Now the big concern is inland flooding.
The surge at Galveston, where Ike made landfall, was about 11 feet.
Forecasters had predicted a surge of up to 25 feet. That would’ve been the highest in recorded history in Texas — above 1961’s Hurricane Carla, which brought a 22-foot wall of water…”
Source: Yahoo News
My Son is a 1st responder, I am very close to this situation, on a 1st hand basis. Yesterday my Son nearly lost his life responding to a call of a vehicle upside down in the water. He is OK, thanks be to God for that, but he was doing what ALL 1st responders do, he was trying to SAVE lives, even at risk of his own.
A few thoughts on Hurricane Ike *VICTIMS*