duminică, 14 septembrie 2008
Impact
Turks and Caicos Islands
Power was lost throughout Grand Turk Island, and 80% of the homes on that island were damaged. After the eye of the storm passed over, it continued west at 15 mph (24 km/h) headed directly for eastern Cuba. Buildings on the islands have been severely weakened and 750 people have lost their homes.
Hispaniola
The outer bands of Ike caused additional flooding in Haiti, which was already devastated by Hanna and also hit hard by Fay and Gustav. The last bridge still standing into the city of Gonaïves was washed away, slowing relief in the community considerably and creating a deeper humanitarian and food crisis in the hard-hit region. 74 deaths were reported in Haiti from Ike, of which most were in the coastal community of Cabaret which was swept away by floodwaters and mudslides. Haitian Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis called for help at the end of the week, saying that four storms in three weeks have left over 550 dead and as many as one million homeless. Ike's winds caused one death in the Dominican Republic from a fallen tree.
Cuba
Just over 1 million Cubans had been evacuated on Sunday, officials said. In Baracoa, 200 homes were reported to be destroyed and waves were running 23 feet (7 m) high. The hurricane made landfall on September 8 on the north coast of eastern Cuba in the province of Holguin near Puerto de Sama, with marire penis sustained winds of about 100 mph (160 km/h), causing widespread flooding and damage to the eastern provinces. Ike had dropped to a Category One by the time it crossed the island. It crossed the western end of the island in Pinar del Rio Province, close to the path taken by Hurricane Gustav ten days previously. Another 1.6 million people had evacuated in advance of its second landfall. The western areas of Cuba, already devastated by Hurricane Gustav just 10 days before Ike hit, suffered additional major flooding from the rain and storm surge.
In total, seven people were killed in Cuba from Ike.
United States
Due to the intensity of the storm, Texas closed many of its oil refineries. Because much of the United States oil reserves are located in Texas, the closings caused an increase in the prices of gasoline, home heating oil, and natural gas. News stations like FOX have called this spike in oil prices the "Ike Spike". Post - storm damage estimates have been placed at 18 billion US dollars (2008) as stated by the Australian Brodcasting Company. 12 deaths have been reported in the US - eight in Texas, three in Louisiana and one in Arkansas.
MV Antalina
On September 11, the 584-foot cargo ship, the MV Antalina, was among the ships that left Port Arthur to avoid the hurricane. The ship had a crew of 22 and carried a cargo of petroleum coke. However, on September 12, the ship's engine failed and the ship was adrift 90 miles from the shore. The crew first attempted to repair the engine but was unable to do so. The crew requested to be evacuated by the Coast Guard, but the rescue mission was aborted because weather conditions were not within the safety parameters. The crew was forced to ride out the storm, but kept in contact with the Coast Guard. The ship successfully rode out the storm and all 22 crew members were uninjured. On September 13, a tugboat was dispatched to return the vessel to port.
Louisiana
The storm surge ahead of Ike blew onshore onto the coast of Louisiana well ahead of Ike's predicted landfall in Texas on September 13. Areas in coastal south-central Louisiana, flooded by Gustav, were expected to be flooded by Friday. One person was killed in a flooded bayou in Terrebonne Parish. Two other deaths took place in a car crash in the evacuation phase in Iberville Parish.
Texas
Debris covers Highway 146 in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in Seabrook, Texas.
On the night of September 12, 2008, the eye of Hurricane Ike approached the Texas coast near Galveston Bay, making landfall at 2:10 a.m. CDT over the east end of Galveston Island. [65] People in low-lying areas who had not heeded evacuation orders, in single-family one- or two-story homes, had been warned by the weather service that they "faced certain death" in the overnight storm surge.
Near Corpus Christi, a man was reportedly swept away; he is presumed dead. The Coast Guard will search for his body after the storm has passed. Another death was confirmed to have been Ike-related as a tree fell onto a boy while being cut in preparation for the storm, and another person was killed not far away from a fallen tree during the storm. Another fallen tree in Huntsville resulted in a fatality after it crashed into a house. One death was reported in Galveston as a result of natural causes when the generator failed.
In regional Texas towns, electrical power began failing before 8 p.m. CDT, leaving more than 3 million people without power. By Saturday, close to 4.5 million people were without power in the Greater Houston area.
Flood waters begin to rise in a neighborhood of Galveston, Texas.
In Galveston, by 4 p.m. CDT (2100 UTC) on September 12, the rising storm surge began overtopping the 17-ft (5.2 m) Galveston Seawall, which faces the Gulf of Mexico; waves had been crashing along the seawall earlier, from 9 a.m. CDT. Although Seawall Boulevard is elevated above the shoreline, many areas of town slope down behind the seawall to the lower elevation of Galveston Island.
Even though there were advance evacuation plans, Mary Jo Naschke, spokesperson for the city of Galveston, estimated that (as of Friday morning) a quarter of the city's residents paid no attention to calls for them to evacuate, despite predictions that most of Galveston Island would suffer heavy flooding storm tide. By 6 p.m. Friday night, estimates varied as to how many of the 58,000 residents remained, but the figures of remaining residents were in the thousands. Widespread flooding included downtown Galveston: six ft (2 m) deep inside the Galveston County Courthouse, and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston was flooded.
In Houston, windows also broke in downtown buildings such as the 75-story JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston), and the Reliant Stadium was damaged. Due to the damage to the stadium, the Houston Texans' game with the Baltimore Ravens, originally scheduled for September 14, was pushed back to November 9. Hurricane Ike affected Houston Astros' late dash for Major League Baseball's playoffs, postponing Friday, Saturday and Sunday's games against the Chicago Cubs. Two of the games were moved to Milwaukee's Miller Park and will be played Sunday September 15 and Monday September 16. The final game is tentatively scheduled for Monday September 29 in Houston.
NASA's Johnson Space Center suffered minor roof damage to its Mission Control and minor cosmetic damage to some of its buildings. NASA's operations at Ellington Field also sustained roof and awning damage.
From a historical perspective, on September 8, 1900, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 landed along a path similar to Ike's, bringing with it a storm surge that inundated most of Galveston Island: as a result, much of the city was destroyed and at least 6,000 people were killed in a few hours. Engineers subsequently increased the the average elevation of the island by 4 feet (1 m) and constructed a 17-foot (5 m) seawall to block incoming waves.
Power was lost throughout Grand Turk Island, and 80% of the homes on that island were damaged. After the eye of the storm passed over, it continued west at 15 mph (24 km/h) headed directly for eastern Cuba. Buildings on the islands have been severely weakened and 750 people have lost their homes.
Hispaniola
The outer bands of Ike caused additional flooding in Haiti, which was already devastated by Hanna and also hit hard by Fay and Gustav. The last bridge still standing into the city of Gonaïves was washed away, slowing relief in the community considerably and creating a deeper humanitarian and food crisis in the hard-hit region. 74 deaths were reported in Haiti from Ike, of which most were in the coastal community of Cabaret which was swept away by floodwaters and mudslides. Haitian Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis called for help at the end of the week, saying that four storms in three weeks have left over 550 dead and as many as one million homeless. Ike's winds caused one death in the Dominican Republic from a fallen tree.
Cuba
Just over 1 million Cubans had been evacuated on Sunday, officials said. In Baracoa, 200 homes were reported to be destroyed and waves were running 23 feet (7 m) high. The hurricane made landfall on September 8 on the north coast of eastern Cuba in the province of Holguin near Puerto de Sama, with marire penis sustained winds of about 100 mph (160 km/h), causing widespread flooding and damage to the eastern provinces. Ike had dropped to a Category One by the time it crossed the island. It crossed the western end of the island in Pinar del Rio Province, close to the path taken by Hurricane Gustav ten days previously. Another 1.6 million people had evacuated in advance of its second landfall. The western areas of Cuba, already devastated by Hurricane Gustav just 10 days before Ike hit, suffered additional major flooding from the rain and storm surge.
In total, seven people were killed in Cuba from Ike.
United States
Due to the intensity of the storm, Texas closed many of its oil refineries. Because much of the United States oil reserves are located in Texas, the closings caused an increase in the prices of gasoline, home heating oil, and natural gas. News stations like FOX have called this spike in oil prices the "Ike Spike". Post - storm damage estimates have been placed at 18 billion US dollars (2008) as stated by the Australian Brodcasting Company. 12 deaths have been reported in the US - eight in Texas, three in Louisiana and one in Arkansas.
MV Antalina
On September 11, the 584-foot cargo ship, the MV Antalina, was among the ships that left Port Arthur to avoid the hurricane. The ship had a crew of 22 and carried a cargo of petroleum coke. However, on September 12, the ship's engine failed and the ship was adrift 90 miles from the shore. The crew first attempted to repair the engine but was unable to do so. The crew requested to be evacuated by the Coast Guard, but the rescue mission was aborted because weather conditions were not within the safety parameters. The crew was forced to ride out the storm, but kept in contact with the Coast Guard. The ship successfully rode out the storm and all 22 crew members were uninjured. On September 13, a tugboat was dispatched to return the vessel to port.
Louisiana
The storm surge ahead of Ike blew onshore onto the coast of Louisiana well ahead of Ike's predicted landfall in Texas on September 13. Areas in coastal south-central Louisiana, flooded by Gustav, were expected to be flooded by Friday. One person was killed in a flooded bayou in Terrebonne Parish. Two other deaths took place in a car crash in the evacuation phase in Iberville Parish.
Texas
Debris covers Highway 146 in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in Seabrook, Texas.
On the night of September 12, 2008, the eye of Hurricane Ike approached the Texas coast near Galveston Bay, making landfall at 2:10 a.m. CDT over the east end of Galveston Island. [65] People in low-lying areas who had not heeded evacuation orders, in single-family one- or two-story homes, had been warned by the weather service that they "faced certain death" in the overnight storm surge.
Near Corpus Christi, a man was reportedly swept away; he is presumed dead. The Coast Guard will search for his body after the storm has passed. Another death was confirmed to have been Ike-related as a tree fell onto a boy while being cut in preparation for the storm, and another person was killed not far away from a fallen tree during the storm. Another fallen tree in Huntsville resulted in a fatality after it crashed into a house. One death was reported in Galveston as a result of natural causes when the generator failed.
In regional Texas towns, electrical power began failing before 8 p.m. CDT, leaving more than 3 million people without power. By Saturday, close to 4.5 million people were without power in the Greater Houston area.
Flood waters begin to rise in a neighborhood of Galveston, Texas.
In Galveston, by 4 p.m. CDT (2100 UTC) on September 12, the rising storm surge began overtopping the 17-ft (5.2 m) Galveston Seawall, which faces the Gulf of Mexico; waves had been crashing along the seawall earlier, from 9 a.m. CDT. Although Seawall Boulevard is elevated above the shoreline, many areas of town slope down behind the seawall to the lower elevation of Galveston Island.
Even though there were advance evacuation plans, Mary Jo Naschke, spokesperson for the city of Galveston, estimated that (as of Friday morning) a quarter of the city's residents paid no attention to calls for them to evacuate, despite predictions that most of Galveston Island would suffer heavy flooding storm tide. By 6 p.m. Friday night, estimates varied as to how many of the 58,000 residents remained, but the figures of remaining residents were in the thousands. Widespread flooding included downtown Galveston: six ft (2 m) deep inside the Galveston County Courthouse, and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston was flooded.
In Houston, windows also broke in downtown buildings such as the 75-story JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston), and the Reliant Stadium was damaged. Due to the damage to the stadium, the Houston Texans' game with the Baltimore Ravens, originally scheduled for September 14, was pushed back to November 9. Hurricane Ike affected Houston Astros' late dash for Major League Baseball's playoffs, postponing Friday, Saturday and Sunday's games against the Chicago Cubs. Two of the games were moved to Milwaukee's Miller Park and will be played Sunday September 15 and Monday September 16. The final game is tentatively scheduled for Monday September 29 in Houston.
NASA's Johnson Space Center suffered minor roof damage to its Mission Control and minor cosmetic damage to some of its buildings. NASA's operations at Ellington Field also sustained roof and awning damage.
From a historical perspective, on September 8, 1900, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 landed along a path similar to Ike's, bringing with it a storm surge that inundated most of Galveston Island: as a result, much of the city was destroyed and at least 6,000 people were killed in a few hours. Engineers subsequently increased the the average elevation of the island by 4 feet (1 m) and constructed a 17-foot (5 m) seawall to block incoming waves.
Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Ike is the ninth named storm, and fifth hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It was a Cape Verde-type hurricane, as it started as a tropical disturbance off the coast of Africa near the end of August, then tracked south of Cape Verde and slowly developed. On September 1, it became a tropical storm west of the Cape Verde islands. By the early morning hours of September 4, Ike was a Category 4 hurricane, hitting its peak of 145 mph (230 km/h) winds and a pressure of 935 mbar (27.61 inHg). That made it the most intense storm so far in the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. At one point the diameter of Ike's tropical storm and hurricane force winds were 450 and 190 miles (720 and 305 km), respectively. Ike has been blamed for 94 deaths since its formation, primarily in Haiti, which was already trying to recover after the impact of three prior 2008 systems, Fay, Gustav, and Hanna. Damages from Ike are estimated at $27 billion (2008 USD).
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