Edmund Schweppe (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edschweppe) wrote2008-09-14 04:05 pm
edschweppe) wrote2008-09-14 04:05 pm
Y-Ike-s!
I've been watching the streaming video from KHOU in Houston, showing the devastation that Hurricane Ike has wrought. They've got their helicopter up showing live pictures of flooded streets and blown-out buildings (currently over Texas City? I don't know that area at all).
Rep. John Culberson recently gave a press conference where he was appealing for local residents to send food and water to the command center at Tully Stadium - apparently, there are some three hundred first responders at the command center there who ran out of supplies. Culberson is on the Appropriations subcommittee that funds Homeland Security; I wouldn't want to be Michael Chertoff at the next set of budget hearings.
Meanwhile, the news folks are demonstrating their ignorance, misidentifying both a C-17 Globemaster II and a Navy P-3 Orion as C-130s. And nobody's gotten any aerial pictures of the west end of Galveston Island ...
Rep. John Culberson recently gave a press conference where he was appealing for local residents to send food and water to the command center at Tully Stadium - apparently, there are some three hundred first responders at the command center there who ran out of supplies. Culberson is on the Appropriations subcommittee that funds Homeland Security; I wouldn't want to be Michael Chertoff at the next set of budget hearings.
Meanwhile, the news folks are demonstrating their ignorance, misidentifying both a C-17 Globemaster II and a Navy P-3 Orion as C-130s. And nobody's gotten any aerial pictures of the west end of Galveston Island ...
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I suspect that's actually "nobody's showing any..." Possibly not even rubble to search through for survivors.
(P.S. Like the dolphins icon *grin* my ex-husband was a bubblehead...)
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Didn't see any from there, either. But I suspect it's pretty much flattened.
Apparently, there's a deck of low clouds - around fifteen hundred feet or so - right along the coast. The news chopper isn't being allowed any lower than two thousand feet; airspace below that is reserved for official aircraft (such as search-and-rescue), and if they're carrying cameras, I haven't seen the footage.
Storms like Ike make me glad I live in New England, twenty-plus miles inland and at 260' elevation. It'd take an asteroid strike to get a storm surge up my way.