Hurricane Ike
Ike
“Warning to everyone, please advice of having food and extra supplies in case of severe power loss. Please know of all possible occurrences in which this storm can cause.” Channel Twelve News spread that message for over a week as we watched Hurricane Ike slowly make its deadly approach to Galveston Island. We never expected it to take such a big impact on our day to day lives.
Hurricane Ike made landfall in Galveston at 2:10 am September 13 with a projected storm surge of twenty feet. When Hurricane Ike hit land it devoured Galveston Island in merely minutes. Houses all across Galveston were destroyed in the wake and spread all over the island like it was nothing. The contents of the storm were expected to have major flooding with mild amounts of power loss causing days or weeks without having power. The effects of the storm became more devastating than what we thought it would be. Power shortages caused no air conditioning and the living environment became irrelevantly humid to where human life was unbearable. People seemed to be like panting dogs in the heat everyday, but yet it was just one thing of the few that we endured.
The day after Hurricane Ike hit, Galveston lay in ruins. Houses across the Houston area had no power and connection to the outside world became almost impossible. Contacting friends or family on the phone was very rare unless you had a LAN line phone since so many people were trying to get into touch. Outside of most homes all you would see were torn down one-hundred-year-old trees and broken power lines everywhere, you would ask your self “how did a storm at such a low category erupt with such a booming voice.” In one day everybody lives in the South Eastern, Texas had changed so dramatically that riots occurred in desperate need of every necessity that were used to in our daily lives.
It’s amazing how little you know about a storm until you live through it and see the damages it causes. The storm hit landfall at...
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