9-11-08 Regular Gas 3.51-3.52; Oil crude at . . Why so low? Govt or whoever/whatever keeping it down until after the elections, hoping Gustave and Ike aftermath won’t be too bad??
Ike is going to hit the Texas coast around Galveston-Houston Friday evening or night according to the Hurricane Center. It will be at least a Cat2; maybe a 3-4. It’s very large and spread out over a large area; it’s coming at high tide and this will add a lot to the storm surge. Gas has already gone up 20 cents a gallon in Nashville, TNording to my friend, Diana who lives there. She called and said overnight their gas went up thurriat much. But they live in a part of the country that gets all their supplies from the gulf Coast. Western US and Arizona get most of Gas from California; althoughAZ gets some gas from the Gulf.
According to Nola.com late Thursday afternoon, parishes in Louisiana are threatened by storm surge starting that afternoon! Recovery efforts have been closed down until the tropical storm threat from Ike passes by. Jeez these poor people!
And we have ANOTHER thunderstorm watch/warning that we’ve had twice a week for the last 3-4 weeks! All this rain is great but more than I remember in monsoon for a long time.
9-12-08 11.00 a.m
New online from different sources:
Masters’ at Wunderground Ike will be more powerful and destructive than Katrina or Rita or Gustav. Not just the category of hurricane but how wide an area it covers and winds and the energy it creates and how it pushes sea water or ground water into a surge. I certainly don’t understand all of that but Jeff Master’s says it could be one of the most destructive storms of all time. The whole of Galveston Island was supposed to be evacuated but only about 1/3 did.; as of the writing according to some estimates.
At TOD something about a military officer remarking on rescuing 37,000 people.
Aftermath of Ike, after all the other storms and stuff, will have a terrible effect on the ability to restore power after power crews have been out in Louisiana the past 2 weeks and parts of the East Coast had power problems after Hanna, TS , went through. 1:10 p.m. MST Downtown Galveston is filled with water already … 30 % of the city hasn’t evacuated and one bridge out is impassable and the other one has risk of high winds … there are only two bridges out of Galveston; Anniversary of Hurricane Carla, too.
People are making run on gas stations in the southeast, some station have rationed their own gas, sometimes they just run out. Governors in Alabama and Kentucky have declared states of emergency (have I got those right?) because of the gasoline problems.
Of course, it's going to price itself way up the next few days ...
From TOD: 19:55CDT KHOU-TV: Galveston has lost electricity. (7:55 p.m. CDT) Landfall from the eye isn't until midnight or 2 am. and look at everything that's happened so far. ...
Also, guy from wunderground.com says he expects a huge power outtages for Texas. I'm sure hemeans at least a few days if not more. 200 miles wide and 300 miles deep in from the coast--:0 Hope that area is over the worst of it's heat for the year.
shamba
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