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09-15-2008, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Houston, Texas
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My house in downtown Houston area lost a lot of roof shingles, so I have some pretty bad water damage in the house....but I'm insured, just I hope I can get a roofing contractor before 2010!! RV4 was at Hooks...and is fine. Had a chance to go out there saturday afternoon....some hanger doors were blow off, about 12" of standing water around the T-hangers, but no serious flooding or damage that I could see....all in all...not bad.
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09-15-2008, 11:38 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Posts: 502
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Photos from LVJ (Pearland, TX)
Here is a photo of Pearland Regional Airport (between Galveston and Houston):
When we evacuated Houston (by air) we parked our car inside the plane's hangar, as you can see the hangar doesn't really exist anymore. A large number of the hangars at the field were heavily damaged, and many airplanes like the one in the picture were totalled. We hope to return to the area in the next few days and we'll take some photos on the way in.
-DC
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09-15-2008, 08:35 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Houston, Tx
Posts: 163
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My little story
I don't often post but what the hey..
I decided last Wednesday that I didn't like the way Ike looked so I paid for my daughters plane ticket down from home in Michigan on Thursday. She and her little brother left from the airport for home. They made it to Michigan just ahead of the remnants of Ike. He'll be staying on there for a couple weeks til I can find time to hop up and fetch him home.
The wife spent last week in Pittsburgh on business. Her and her coworkers were scheduled to return Friday after the scheduled shut down time of IAH so they stayed thru the weekend and came home this morning (monday). All of the hotel and food expenses were on her companies dime.
With my family safely out of harms way, I volunteered with my company to escort our fleet to Abilene (ABI) for safekeeping. I am a Maintenance Quality Control inspector for a regional carrier under Continentals flag. What was cool about it tho was the aircrews and the maintenance guys who went with the fleet were allowed to bring their families and pets. The company even paid for the hotels!
We got back to IAH around noon today. So far the only casualties any of us have suffered is a lost car when a tree fell on it; and my bosses rented house took a pine tree thru the roof in a spare bedroom. All in all, it could have been a lot worse.
My thoughts and prayers for those less fortunate.
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A+P, RV Dreamer + Schemer
RV-9 preplans in hand
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09-16-2008, 06:16 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Crestwood, KY
Posts: 848
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You people in Texas aren't the only ones suffering from Ike
Sunday morning I received my finishing kit. While we were unloading the winds were picking up and the trees around started losing branches. Later on in the day the winds were getting into 60 and 70 mph gusts. Needless to say the trees started snapping and ultimately we lost power in the area. About 200,000 people are without power in the Louisville metropolitan area. I had my roof replaced back in March so I suffered no damage to my structures but my yard looks like a battleground. We haven't had any power since 3:00 pm Sunday. I'm posting this at work. A lot of our utility crews were sent to Texas to help out before the winds hit Sunday so its real slow progress getting the power back on here. It might be 10 to 14 days until its all restored.
Don't get me wrong I know the folks in Texas have it heck of alot worse then we do. It was just weird seeing those high winds without thunder, lightning and rain.
I imagine the folks living around the Vahalla golf course will have power though seeing how the Ryder Cup is being played there this week in Louisville 
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RV-9A Based K6I2
Flying - out of Phase 1
Building RV-12 with brother
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09-16-2008, 06:34 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Mendon South Carolina
Posts: 1,391
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The following is a link to photos taken by Richard Watson of Texas Coast Geology, from Rockport, TX to High Island and back . The towns of Caplen and Gilchrist are GONE. Crystal Beach is heavily damaged.
http://texascoastgeology.com/Hurr%20...ght/index.html
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09-16-2008, 04:04 PM
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VAF Moderator / Line Boy
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dayton, NV
Posts: 12,256
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Thanks for the photo link Milt (post above this) - that is a heck of a survey - and points out why we aren't hearing much out of the Bolivar penninsula folks - there is nothing left!
Louise and I surveyed galveston from the air last night, and it matches what you see here.
Paul
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Editor at Large - KITPLANES Magazine
RV-8 - N188PD - "Valkyrie"
RV-6 (By Marriage) - N164MS - "Mikey"
RV-3B - N13PL - "Tsamsiyu"
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Dayton Valley Airpark (A34)
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09-16-2008, 05:05 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 868
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John Bixby
RV-8 QB sn 82030 - 1750 hrs
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Houston, TX
Last edited by DeltaRomeo : 09-16-2008 at 07:45 PM.
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09-17-2008, 11:23 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Houston
Posts: 361
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Hopefully they'll move inland now
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Originally Posted by c177tx
I just read on the Lone Star Flight Museum's web sight that they recieved substantial damage.
www.lsfm.org
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Anyone who's ever been there ought to understand what a disaster this is. Lonestar is one of the finest warbird musuems in the country. It's a crime to have all those priceless planes, most of whom USED to be in FLYING CONDITION, located on a barrier island in hurricane country.
I just hope that when they rebuild they'll move it inland.
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Jon Baker
RV6A sold, RV4 in-progress
Houston
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09-17-2008, 12:19 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Houston
Posts: 361
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News from Weiser
My buddy Daryl sent me some pics from Weiser. Three hangars destroyed. But six planes on tie-downs all came through OK. The helicopter school apparently got their choppers out because one the of destroyed hangars was theirs and there were no broken choppers visible. But there was a midget mustang under the wreckage. Daryl's hangar was fine. Maybe he'll post the pics.
At about 3 in the morning, I watched the worst of it come through Cypress. Being from Tulsa, I've seen lots of tornados, but this was like being inside one. I have lots of trees and fences and a covered back porch. Somehow they blocked the wind so much that it was almost calm on my porch but I could look up and see the tops of the trees swinging every which way almost to the point of breaking. One broke in my neighbors yard and fell on his garage. Down the street an ancient live oak about 6' across was literally pulled up by the root and fell on that guys garage. The noise reminded me of a tornado -- kind of a roar that some people say sounds like a train. It was un-real.
It's hard to imagine anyone whose ever seen something like this and lives on a island like Galveston not evacuating, but apparently a bunch of people didn't. But now they're the ones the government is in such a hurry to get help to, so maybe they weren't so dumb after all.
The guy who mentioned it wasn't just a Galveston thing isn't kidding. We threw in the towel Monday and headed east on I-10 for my daughter's house in Atlanta. Good thing we had full tanks to start because it was Lafayette, LA before we found a gas station without a line outside. Even past Orange, TX, you could see evidence that I-10 had been under water. We started calling to find a room at 9:00p and the closest one was 2 hours away in Slidell, LA -- on the east side of New Orleans. The motels were all full from all the linemen coming in from out of state to fix the powerlines. So that's good thing. The next day we stopped at a C-store in Bay St. Louis, which was ground zero for Katrina. It was still a mess. I asked the girl at the counter why they hadn't cleaned up yet. She said they had -- that's why all the buildings were gone. The current mess I was seeing was from Ike and Gustaf.
I sure feel lucky that all we lost was power, water, and sewer.
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Jon Baker
RV6A sold, RV4 in-progress
Houston
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09-17-2008, 03:52 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Tomball, TX
Posts: 66
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About 2 months ago my neighbor Jim 2 hangers down at Hooks suggested that I have some angle iron welded to the inside of the top rail of my hanger. I heeded his very good advice. Ike blew both doors off the top track onto the new angle iron. I can't thank you enough Jim.
Luis Luciani
RV8, 100 Hours
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