Hurricane Ike

Damage to the environment of buildings such as buildings, roads, bridges, transmission lines, shops, schools and hospitals is often reported after the earthquake. Of course, these are in accordance with the death toll of civic life and economic and social impact. Unlike Hurricane Ike, Hurricane Ike is one of the biggest losses, causing a surge of 20 feet. There are not many famous stories about how it affects others for the benefit. For Jean Stratmeyer, who is the resident of the Bolivar Peninsula most affected by the storm, the story is more than its destructive nature. Knowing that it is Chen's time

The tropical rainfall measurement mission (TRMM) satellite captured Ike at 9:18 pm on September 9 (Eastern Standard Time 2:18 pm), and Hurricane Ike was crossing the western part of Cuba. The wind speed of this image is about 65 knots (75 mph). This means that the mountains of eastern Cuba before landing in Cuba influenced the Ike which is a hurricane with a strength of 4 at 105 knots (121 mph). This image shows that Ike has annual rainfall of 10 to 40 mm (0.4 to 1.6 inch).

Why evacuate? At 8 am EST, the maximum wind speed of Hurricane Ike approached 105 mph and made him the second type of storm on the Saphir - Simpson scale. However, predictors at the National Hurricane Center expect Ike to be a Category 3 storm before landing, which is the main hurricane. > Even bigger picture 8:00 am (7: 00 am) Eastern daylight time, Ike center is 365 miles near Corpus Christi State, 230 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, 26.9 degrees north latitude and 92.2 degrees west longitude. Ike is moving in the west-northwest at 13 miles per hour. It is expected that we will turn to the northwest in the second half of today and turn to the north on Saturday after landing. Estimated minimum center pressure is 956 mbar

Pictures of the coasts of Texas and Louisiana like this picture show the influence of Hurricane Ike 's powerful storm surge on coastal wetlands. Hurricane Ike landed in the southeastern part of Texas on 13 September 2008 and brought a water wall extending east from Galveston, Texas, to the entire coastal area of ​​Louisiana. Because Ike was a big storm, the storm turbulence covered hundreds of kilometers along the Gulf of Mexico and the strong winds of the tropical storm pushed water more than 400 km from the center of the storm. The strongest storm surge destroyed Galveston and the Bolivar Peninsula. Coastal Louisiana has not been hit hard, but it is still coming from Hurricane Gustav