I finally lost power here in The Heights. Initially it went off for about 2 minutes then came back on, but right after that it went out and has stayed out. This sucks! I'm online by tethering my blackberry to my laptop.
Just checked my zip code on Weather Underground. They have a weather station at Air Liquide, which is on 11th near Hempstead Highway - probably a couple miles from me - and they are recording 66mph sustained winds with gusts to 75.
Power keeps having momentary failures, but have recovered so far after a few moments in Alief. Galveston? At best, plenty of uninhabitable buildings and no power for a while. Even if everybody who stayed has survived, it will be miserable to live there for a while.
Ugh, our transformer just blew up. I had the misfortune of watching it happen. Power is gone for good now.
Im on the NW side..power has been out a while and its pretty nasty here right now. Looks like were right on the edge of the western eyewall. Running on laptop / verizon card. Verizon network seems ok.
That's exactly what happened as our transformer exploded here (over by Richmond and Dairy Ashford near the police station). Your transformer is probably toast.
Can someone please post the details of the storm right now? Direction, location, strength etc. Lights have been out since 7pm but winds seem to have really picked up in the last hour. Highway six/ Clay road area. Posting from my phone. Damn it's been miserable night without power. No sleep at all, ugh.
From what I'm seeing on the KPRC feed it looks like the eye is passing just east of downtown right now. The worst of the bands are going through the main Houston area especially inside BW8. Another 30-45 minutes of madness and then things should ease up a bit.
You're west of the eye. The eye will not pass directly over you. It is heading north. You are stuck in a band blowing out of the north east, and will shift to the north, then eventually due west... It should be mostly over by late morning, as far as highest winds. If you have a battery operated radio, you can tune in to 104.1 KRBE for a simulcast of Ch. 11 I believe. Can you see still images on your phone?
As of 4 a.m. CDT, Ike was located near Baytown, Texas, or about 25 miles east of Houston, with maximum sustained winds at 110 mph. This makes Ike a high-end Category 2 hurricane. The forward movement is toward the northwest at around 13 mph. The estimated minimum pressure is 954 millibars. Metro Houston will continue to face a wicked blow from Ike this morning. Aside from the coastal flooding on the southeast side of the city along the western bay, Houston will deal with sustained tropical storm-force winds with numerous gusts to hurricane force. Once the center passes I-10, the metro area will see a slow decrease in winds but the heavy rain will continue into the afternoon. Skyscrapers will endure even higher winds than compared to the surface because of their elevation. There is a good chance that windows will be blown out in many of these very tall buildings throughout downtown Houston. As Ike continues inland, life threatening flooding rains and potentially damaging winds will spread inland across Texas. Inland tropical storm warnings are in effect for cities as far north as the Red River, including the Dallas/Fort Worth area, with inland hurricane wind warnings as far north as Tyler, Texas.
Wife and kids are asleep. Im glad they are because the noise and winds alone are freaking me out man. I still have power right now.......but for how long? Who knows? Reporting from the BW8 & West Rd area.....
Here's a still shot from the Wundermap on wunderground.org Hope you can see that... as of 4:38 am CDT
looks like we are about the get the eye near Kingwood. Few tree's smacked my home, hoping to see good signs when I can get out there.
