Hurricane Ike - Galveston Storm Surge over 1900 Monument
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2008
- Hurricane Ike's storm surge overwashes a monument erected in tribute to the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. Get more photos and video at Personal Hurricane Center.com
@1SkyIsTheLimit1 keep in mind also this was about 18 hours before Ike even made landfall. On several stretches of Seawall blvd debris was already washed up on the roads and several piers were knocked down. Ike may have been a strong cat 2 at landfall but he packed a huge punch in terms of surge
I like it. The hurricane without the hype!
@ICIT100 neither. documenting a historic event while also being well aware of surrounding conditions and the time frames we were restricted to. We fled the island well before the causeways were closed.
it was completely underwater for about a day then the storm surge went down but most of the houses on the island are badly damaged due to some wind but mostly storm surge
People forget how HUGE these waves are! There is a 20 foot wall protecting galveston and the sea level was up to the top of the wall and the waves are crashing OVER it. This is a storm surge.
@92kid1 - that IS a storm surge rising along with tidal action. a storm surge just doesn't come in like a wave. And, it sure as hell doesn't come in at 50-100 MPH. Finally, 20-foot storm surges are rare and reserved for the strongest of storms. So to say "usually" is quite a bit misleading. On average category three hurricanes produce 15-18-foot storm surges. the three feet surges you suggest are always confined to weak tropical storms and that's within close proximity to the center
James, please see my response to your other comment. That kind of misinformation is why storm surgery is the biggest killer in hurricanes. Thigh the greatest storm surge peaks at landfall it does begin hours prior. And Ike produced one if the widest storm surges on recorded history well before landfall and after.
I'm watching. this in 2016 im SCARED
@timothytrice Yes I know :) im just saying this to people that are saying that this isnt a storm surge, because it is.
This isn't storm surge. This is just waves prior to the storm. According to the National Weather Service, Hurricane Ike's Storm Surge came rolling in at 12:48 am measured by an instrument on the Bolivar side, that instrument was washed away in the Storm Surge, and stopped reporting at 1am, Ike made Landfall at 2am, there such a thing as Tidal Surge, Which Galveston had been experiencing most of the day, the real High water came ashore at 12:48am,
So the statue did survive? I heard otherwise. Have yet to get back home (to a flooded but still existent house), but glad to hear the memorial is still there!
I came across Ike damage, but in the turks and caicos, not on Galveston Island.
@92kid1
Uh, no. Actually a storm surge is the GRADUAL RISE in water onto the coast in response to the winds, low pressure, and movement of a Hurricane onto land. Those hurricane DVDs really need to specify on that. Besides, how can a huge volume of water like that travel so fast when the hurricane moves on average at 10-20 mph? The fastest-moving hurricane moved at 70 mph. Not even close to 100 mph. The WINDS in a hurricane travel at 100 mph. so ya.....
pause at :18
People don't look before they read Tim .... Just sayin
Jesus Christ that's not the storm surge. That's just wave. The storm surge doesn't hit until right before the eye makes landfall.
+James Kingsmill That IS the storm surge. Started HOURS before the eye came anywhere close to the island. Those "waves" are washing over a 17-foot-high seawall. Ike had hurricane-force winds extending more than 100 miles out from the eye, so the Cat-2 storm pushed an unprecedented amount of surge ahead of its arrival (equivalent to a Cat-5 storm). If they hadn't built that wall after the 1900 hurricane, the entire island would have been underwater, just like Bolivar Peninsula was -- and like the island was in 1900. So yeah, that IS storm surge in the video.
DUDE WHY U JUST STANDING THERE TAKING PICTURES? FREKIN RUN FOR YA LIFEEEE