Galveston reports- Katrina II

Western Houston was never an area where there was an anticipation of a problem. We are talking about the North Texas coastline and possibly East Lousiana coast line.

Something about this whole thing stinks.

... only 9 people have died? Some number is off either the number rescued or the number dead or both.


CBC News- Sept.15- 11:30am:
Dozens confirmed dead as cleanup continues after Hurricane Ike. Millions still out of power.

Which wolf is fed when you wish or condone bad things happening to people whose only fault may have been tardiness from what we hear and getting cut off by a PREMATURE storm surge as they were preparing to move. As for thos idiots who chose to weather the storm in the bar llike the great hurricane party of Camiole 1969 i can only say that their extremely bad judgement does not deserve death. if bad judgement equalled death, then none of us would be here now.

Sorry, but you need to open your eyes and take a look at some of the videos available. Most may have been lucky, a huge number were not.

Check the KHOU forum... a LOT of folks are unaccounted for and there are areas where the damage is catastrophic.

Also, for those of you with little compassion, saying they should have left... Many could not! By the time they were ready, and should have been okay to go according to the warnings, the roads were already impassable. One poster (the thread "Ike") told of his predicament and, as far as I know, in the aftermath has not been heard from again either.

IMO, things are not as they may seem here, and certainly not as it's being painted by TPTB.

I'm being starved of information and I don't like it.

Yes, these people will be ok. It may not be all the comforts of home, but it's dry, they will receive medical attention, be fed 3 meals a day, given clothing, provided with use of phones to try and contact family members, and they will have air conditioning, which is very necessary in this area. It is NOT a camp, though it may seem like one. It's an emergency shelter. In the short-term, this is all they can do for now due the the huge number of people being helped. In the long term, they will provide these folks with some type of vouchers for rental homes, rental apts., etc., until the utilities are up and running again in their home communities. Some may be not able to return home ever because there is nothing left to return to.

This is massive and there is only so much that can be done in a short period.

Check www.nationallpainrelief.com and www.DrDeluca.com and good luck with getting your hands on 1 dose much less an assortment. it would be invaluable for the many peple who have already fallen thru the cracks and may have saved some if administered soon ennough after their injuries.

Satellite images of Galveston island. Click on the boxes for more detail.

[link to ngs.woc.noaa.gov]

There are live helicopter shots on here now ...

[link to www.myfoxhoustonlive.com]

Wipe out.

Galveston is just about gone.

[link to ngs.woc.noaa.gov]
For any local resident who cannot get to his or home for viewing of damage...this link IS AN EXCELLENT SOURCE.

Please provide this link to anyone YOY KNOW who evacuated and cannot get back into badly damaged areas.

GREAT POST!!!

Sorry but are these images live? I see many cars in the road and at the parkings [link to ngs.woc.noaa.gov]

People will have disappeared out to sea. It won't be like Katrina ... searching the houses because a lot of them have gone. Let's hope they evacuated at the last minute.

I've been watching the helicopter shots and the houses have been wiped away by the water. That's the Bolivar peninsular ... it might be a different area to Galveston.

If someone insisted on staying on the front shoreline of galveston island during the hurricane then yeah they might have been swept out to sea. What can you do at this point? No good worrying about people that have decided to go out that way or whatever. Not saying I don't have compassion, but that suffering or death was self inflicted if that's what happened. People are strange to figure out. Some of their behaviors just don't make sense.

I wonder if its named after Simon Bolivar ...

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

CBC News- 12:45:
Search and rescue efforts now underway (door to door and through rubble) for approximately 2000 people stranded in the hurricane.

No it says Galveston
[link to ngs.woc.noaa.gov]

this image is from ave U (the first one)

There are hundreds of ships waiting to get into the Houston ship canal.

Houston Ship Channel ...

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

On December 25, 2007, The Houston Ship Channel was featured on Anderson Cooper's CNN Special,"Planet in Peril," as a controversial and potential polluter of nearby neighborhoods. This year, the University of Texas released a study proving that children living within 2 miles (3.2 km) of the Houston Ship Channel are 56% more likely to become sick with Leukemia than the national average.[citation needed]

[link to news.yahoo.com]

OMG

Scary place.

Look at that one house just stood there.

IF anyone stayed in these areas, they chance of survival would be close to zero I'm afraid.

Another shot.
[link to news.yahoo.com]

These pics/page #'s change constantly due to people adding pics regularly btw.

I wonder how much fuel those ships have on board. They can't stay stranded there forever. I wonder why the shipping channel is closed.

They are waiting for power to be restored ...

'Officials at the port of Houston, an economic engine for the region, said they would decide Sunday night whether to reopen Monday. It all depends on the restoration of power - which was still out Sunday morning - and a green light from the coast guard, which was still checking the Houston ship channel for any submerged objects that might have been swept into the shipping lanes.'

[link to canadianpress.google.com]

Here's what just now happened LIVE on CNN right about noon 12pm CDT or few minutes after and did anyone else just see this happen ???

The newsman in CNN news room was just now doing a live interactive report from Galveston with Betty Ngyuen (sp)reporting right now.

He said they were going to show viewers some I-reports that are quite astounding,,, that some are more than just seeing piles of debris.

Then he went to the Google Earth feature where it shows you the home views from the street as if driving down the road. He showed a pre-storm image of a man standing out on balcony of a blue beach house located in the area of Galveston Island called West End = the NEWS BLACK OUT area. He says that house is on the west of the main beach road (actually it was on the northwest side as the island runs at a diagonal). Then he switched views to show a row of 5 (maybe he said 6) beach houses across the street - still prestorm. He even counted them out individually and commented that these were across from the blue one and located on the side of the beach shoreline.

The he says something like, "now we're going to show you this video we've recieved of those houses that are no longer there."

And as he clicks his remote, the screen just goes blank and he turns and looks at someone who is off camera with a puzzled look (someone who apparently was giving him info or a "cut it" sign) and he sighs, then remarks, "well, it seems that we don't have that video" or something along that line.

My teeth almost fell out watching this incident as it was so freaking obvious that ORDERS are being issued from higher-ups now in control over the entire media. The ptb / NWO (or whoever / whatever) are now in a full tilt take-over of ever aspect of our society in USA ... and they are resolved to keep us from knowing the real situations taking place, the TRUTH of matters happening all around us, in our own towns, with families and friends!

This is infuriating ... the entire concept of Freedom of the Press is now nothing but a huge joke! Information control, covering up, disinformation, propaganda, deception, lying and obsufication, etc etc ----> those are now the only game in town.

Everything America has ever stood for is being stomped into the dirt right before our eyes!

No, not at all.
What IS bad is the idea that the rest of us, mainly those of us of the more populous north eastern states, are once again expected to bail out all those asshats who cannot bear the winter weather we deal with.
Fuck those idiots.IF they insist on living in Hurricane Alley, they should damn well bail THEMSELVES out.This time and every other fucking time.
Fuck the whole lot of them.

We were told before it happend that there would be certain death and there were still 11,000 people there. Clue there I think.