LarryDallas Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Here are the ones from my street in Westbury. What I saw when I opened my door: Directly in front of my house 2 20-25 ft trees from the house on the other side of the street crashed and left me only a 6ft wide area to pull my cars out. My house is on the left of this photo but it is not pictured for online safety reasons (stalkers, killers, marketers, etc). Doing a 180 degree turn and looking down 2 blocks is another giant tree downed. I was lucky to have one street open or I would have been stranded for a LONG time. Sunday I went down to Victoria to buy a generator and supplies. On the way back I see a convoy of 20 State Farm cars and trucks to help with claims. Almost every car or truck coming up 59 had the 5 gallon gas cans and/or generators on them. The window A/C unit at Lowes for $125 was worth EVERY SINGLE PENNY!!!! I had not slept in 3 days...maybe 1-2 hours a night and nothing the night of the storm. I was VERY lucky....A few homes around here had trees fall on them and crush the roofs. My house and cars had no damage whatsoever plus I had water and natural gas the whole time. I lost power at 9:30 the night of storm and was hot and humid until last night. I am coming to you on generator power now. The sound of the wind and the debris hitting the side of the house is pure horror when you are borded inside. I think the gusts were 80-90 mph in this area. My pecan tree would have fallen if the storm went another few hours in my estimation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 No one said anything about the geotube in Gilchrist. Sure, it's not a seawall, but it kept water out for many storms. Rita's water came in from the backside due to the circulation and it being east. It was weird that the northern sides of houses were the ones that got damage. Crystal Beach had no protection. I've heard that Rollover pass in completely gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniepwils Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Edit: what's this? That is water gushing up from a man hole. The next day it shot the cover up in the air (was really loud). I have a pic of that as well, I will post more pics later of when I went through downtown on Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bailey Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Doesn't get any more ironic than this. This is outside my office, at San Felipe and Voss. http://twitpic.com/btfs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
editor Posted September 16, 2008 Author Share Posted September 16, 2008 NOAA has taken several dozen very high resolution photographs of the Galveston-Houston area as it is now after the storm.They're far too many and large for me to post here, so here's a link.Click on the black square around the area you want to see. Then click on the yellow squares to pull up images from that sector. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cottonmather0 Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 My next door neighbor's pool. This top of this tree (trimmed in the pic) took out the power line in back that serves our little group of 5-6 houses: Another neighbor just across the street. We worked all morning in the last bit of light rain getting this tree out of the street so traffic would get buy and the gutters would drain: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Most of these are on the trek from the Reliant Stadium area to Montrose: Fannin at Knight: Apartments along Fannin: Fannin at OST: Fannin in the medical center: St. Lukes tower: Main near Rice University: Minit Man on Main: Sears with the old A exposed: West Alabama near the spur: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayshoota Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 The Heights: Surfing I-10: Downtown: Day before: Day after: Allen Parkway: One from Rice area: North/South Streets' trees made it: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desirous Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Who opened the window? They're boarding up now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bred Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Bayridge Apartments in League City: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desirous Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Cleanup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeats Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Boston.com has amazing, hi-res photos of Ike aftermath here: http://tinyurl.com/6b9syq Very surreal, very sad. My own pictures are here, on Houstonist: http://houstonist.com/2008/09/16/memorial_...p_after_ike.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrSpotOn Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 Some interesting Houston TX hurricane IKE pictures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmancuso Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 calm before the storm: the next morning: downtown: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higgins Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 This is early: Water off the Bayou Lofts, 3am: Howling down Travis, also 3am Was thinking if living here (Hogg Palace): Also here (Capital Lofts): Chase tower parking garage: The patterns of destruction: Time to negotiate that build-out: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeltedPlastic Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Here are some of mine: 1. Days Inn on College Avenue, South Houston. 2. A poorly stiched panorama of one of the marinas along NASA rd 1. 3. Another marina shot... 4. On to the Kemah Boardwalk. No Starbucks available here.... And on to the Landry's...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I saw on a video that the Dungeon Drop looking ride was completely off the pole! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniepwils Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 (edited) More of downtown: Half of the sign is missing! Well what do you know, here it the other half! baby bird that didn't make it. another baby bird that didn't make it. No damage to these, just thought they were nice. (above pic) Edited September 17, 2008 by Daniepwils Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montrose1100 Posted September 17, 2008 Share Posted September 17, 2008 I was just thinking... They should replace in a random order (in thirds, blending into each other, from top to bottom) in Gold tinted, Orange tinted, and then Blue tinted. Like that Phallic in Barcelona. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Here we go, a lot from the car so sorry about the imperfect edges: Memorial Drive Buffalo Bayou at Waugh White Oak Bayou, I-10 at I-45 Houston Ave, going north over White Oak Bayou White Oak Bayou from the Durham bridge I-10 at Durham White Oak Bayou at bridge 20 (Heights) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabasushi Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Sears with the old A exposed: I know this isn't nice of me to say this, but when I looked at that photo of hte old Sears, my thought was, "Darn it, Ike didn't finish stripping the rest of the ugly metal panelling off the Sears building." :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karick42 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 A few of mine from the Riverside area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 i'll call this the ike bike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vertigo58 Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 I just have photos of nearby East End hoods shortly after day break. Mostly Idylwood/Forest Hill/Sunnyland/Broadmoor. The old deal have to scan or upload and enter here I guess. Most of these areas still no power as I type. We couldnt venture too far away at this time gas lines were growing so saving was key not to mention getting food...somewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsb320 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I just have photos of nearby East End hoods shortly after day break. Mostly Idylwood/Forest Hill/Sunnyland/Broadmoor. The old deal have to scan or upload and enter here I guess. Most of these areas still no power as I type.We couldnt venture too far away at this time gas lines were growing so saving was key not to mention getting food...somewhere It's interesting - I've noticed that gas prices have actually fallen in the last couple of days. Every penny counts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Gehry at the UH collage of architecture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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