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IKE has been downgraded to a
Tropical Storm. Details below.
If you are in Houston, Baytown, or Dickinson, a boil water advisory has been issued.
Re-entry into Galveston and Port Arthur is prohibited until further notice.
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These diaries are intended to provide an up-to-date emergency information and references for our many Gulf Coast Kossacks. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by the hurricane. If you are trying to reach someone in the area of the storm, try text messaging. It often works when cell phones do not.
Hurricane Preparedness TIPS
STATUS REPORTS:
National Hurricane Center Updates
UPDATE!! The 4pm Advisory is out:
...IKE CONTINUES TO WEAKEN OVER NORTHEASTERN TEXAS...
...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND TORNADOES REMAIN A THREAT...
IKE IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES OVER
EASTERN TEXAS AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA...WITH ISOLATED
AMOUNTS OF 15 INCHES POSSIBLE. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 6 INCHES...
WITH MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 8 INCHES...ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN
OKLAHOMA...WESTERN ARKANSAS...SOUTHERN AND EASTERN MISSOURI...
ILLINOIS...NORTHERN INDIANA...AND SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN THROUGH
SUNDAY.
A THREAT FOR TORNADOES EXISTS THROUGH TONIGHT OVER PORTIONS OF
NORTHEASTERN TEXAS...NORTHERN LOUISIANA...MUCH OF ARKANSAS...AND
SOUTHERN MISSOURI.
AN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE
CENTER AT 700 PM CDT FOLLOWED BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 1000
PM CDT.
Weather Diaries by millwx
VOLUNTEERS
Current Mothership Updaters: jlms_qkw, donnamarie, , exmearden, Stranded Wind, noweasels, gchaucer2, SallyCat, Remembering Jello, mem from sommerville , Timroff
Child Diarist Line-Up
Ike approaches the Gulf Coast:
1. Timroff
2. bottles
3. mem from somerville
4. jlynne
5. geez53
6. TiaRachel
7. heart of a quince
8. Peraspera
9. politik
Landfall:
10. Stranded Wind
11. NancyK
12. Remembering Jello
13. arkansasblue
14. Pluto
15. WestWind
Aftermath:
16. geez53
17. mem from somerville
18. imonlylurking
19. Silence Is Complicity (current diary)
Diarists on deck:
Next:20. Oke
21. CalifSherry
22. kineticdissent
23. peraspera
Diarists-in-waiting:
Avila (moved re comment in #13)Sunday
WeeMama (available til 5pm Sat., if needed, comment link )
gchaucer2
What to do after the storm
Please check in at the Roll Call Diary.
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