As disaster victims return to their damaged homes children were exposed to the debris and other hazards, developing a risk of injury. [1] A few outlining islands suffered minor damage and no casualties were reported. AVHRR/MCVISR Composite image of Ike on September 9, 2008, at 1848Z. Florida Keys officials began evacuations on the low-lying chain of islands in phases, starting at the end in Key West by 8 am Sunday and continuing throughout the day—at noon for the Middle Keys, and at 4 pm for the Upper Keys, including Key Largo. At around 14:00 UTC on September 9, Ike made a second Cuban landfall, this time on Punta La Capitana in Pinar del Rio, with winds of 80 mph (130 km/h). On September 10, U.S. President George W. Bush made an emergency declaration for Texas, making more federal help available for preparations and evacuations. [13] These factors were also responsible for Ike's slow developmental trend that began after formation. Continuing to move west and then west-southwest, Ike began to impact the … Hurricane Ike near peak intensity, northeast of the, Collision of oil tanker with drilling rig, Search and Rescue Operations Coordinated by LDWF Transport 363 Residents to Safety During Hurricane Ike's Pass Through State, September 16, 2008, Federal Emergency Management Agency. The eye of the hurricane crossed over the eastern end of Galveston Island and a large region of the Texas and Louisiana coast experienced extreme winds, waves and water levels, resulting in large impacts from overtopping, overwash, wind and wave forces and flooding. The onset of tropical storm winds began in some areas at approximately 10 a.m. today and the onset of Hurricane winds are expected to begin late this afternoon. My chum, i desire you would be risk-free and that Ike isn't as risky as they're asserting it is. [35] Mandatory evacuations were also ordered for Jefferson, Orange, and Chambers counties located east of Houston. Is Tropical Storm Hanna Part of a “Triple Threat ... Is Tropical Storm Hanna Part of a “Triple Threat ... 895 x 716 gif 31kB (1):26–32 Retrieved November 20, 2012, Norris, Fran H.2010 "Prevalence and Consequences of Disaster-Related Illness.". leaving millions without power (estimates range from 2.8 million[80] to 4.5 million[81] customers). [21] Over the next day, Ike tracked westward, paralleling the southern coast of Cuba without much intensification; at times the center of the hurricane was within 12 mi (19 km) of the island. Hurricane-force wind gusts were reported to the east of the centre across parts of Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with significant wind damage including structural damage to buildings and trees. Power Outages were also common from wind damage well northward into the Ohio Valley. [84] Hurricane Ike came ashore along the U.S. Gulf Coast on September 13, 2008, and the storm’s eye narrowly missed Galveston and Houston. The crew unsuccessfully attempted to repair the engine and requested to be evacuated by the Coast Guard, but the rescue mission was aborted because weather conditions were not within the safety parameters. The crew was forced to ride out the storm but kept in contact with the Coast Guard. The storm surge was greatest east of Galveston, reaching 4.6 meters (15 feet) above sea … Hurricane Ike’s projected path will continue to push it through the warm deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean as it continues northwestern trek at about 17 mph. (see storm-path image). City Manager Steven LeBlanc late Wednesday issued a mandatory evacuation order for the low-lying west end of Galveston Island. The St. Louis Metropolitan Area experienced hurricane conditions, with Ike's remnants inflicting severe damage to homes. Jayson Stark (2008). [123][124] Symptoms from exposure were headaches, nausea, and vomiting with the majority of the treated cases under the age of eighteen. [7][8] Despite the development of a low-pressure area associated with the wave and signs of organization within favorable conditions near the Cape Verde Islands,[9] the system was only able to generate intermittent thunderstorm activity. On the morning of September 13, 2008, the eye of Hurricane Ike approached the upper Texas coast, making landfall at 2:10 am CDT over the east end of Galveston Island, with a high storm surge, and travelled north up Galveston Bay, along the east side of Houston (see storm-path image). Much of the spillage occurred in the High Island area of Galveston County, Texas, where storm surge rose over a low-lying oilfield and flooded the marshy area around several producing wells, beam pumps and storage tanks. [104] In Indiana, about 350,000 customers lost power statewide, mainly in the southern part of the state. [127] Ike also forced the postponement of a Texas Longhorns game in Austin,[128] Texas due to increased evacuee traffic in the city's shelters. [107] Highways were washed out in the Bruce Peninsula, and trees were uprooted in London, Ontario. "[Abstract] Dying to play video games: Carbon monoxide poisoning from electrical generators following Hurricane Ike". Although post-analysis indicated that the depression reached tropical storm strength at 12:00 UTC that day,[10] operationally the NHC began issuing advisories on Ike three hours later, by which time the system had already gained numerous curved rainbands and well-established outflow. As the hurricane moved over Haiti's mountainous terrain its circulation was disrupted and it lost a little strength. [119], Hurricane Ike also brought many health issues to the victims. [1][49] Haitian Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis called for help at the end of the week, saying that four storms in three weeks have left over 550 dead and as many as one million homeless. [39][40][41] Reports said as many as 40 percent of Galveston's citizens did not pay attention to the warnings. Orange County had an 88.5 percent capacity loss of intermediate care facilities reducing its overall capacity. javascript is enabled. [96] The overall total damage in Ohio exceeded $1.1 billion, tying the 1974 Xenia tornado as the costliest storm in Ohio's history. [139] Four drilling rigs, including Ensco 74, were damaged by Ike, but Ensco 74 was the only missing rig. When surveyed victims were asked how they felt and what they experienced after the hurricane there was an immediate emotional response to fear of the loss of property, employment, displacement, and damages. [71] Some areas that had not yet recovered from Gustav power outages received additional outages,[72] of 200,000. [18], Despite tracking back over water, Ike's prolonged interaction with Cuba had greatly disrupted the system's core, and instead of quickly strengthening and coalescing, the storm's wind field instead grew and only gradual intensification ensued. 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[29] State rural water associations activated mutual aid networks to prepare for the landfall of Ike while still providing assistance to areas affected by Hurricane Gustav. On September 11, the MV Antalina, a 584-foot (178 m) cargo ship, was among the ships that left Port Arthur to avoid the hurricane. The Lone Star Flight Museum suffered massive damage, as the storm surge washed through the airport and hangars with about 8 feet (2.4 m) of water; however, Moody Gardens was built with storms in mind and was able to withstand the worst of the storm. At the time, Ike was a Category 1 storm, though it was Category 4 when it made landfall in Cuba on September 7, two days earlier. The ship had a crew of 22 and carried a cargo of petroleum coke. 2012 "Mental health outcomes among adults in Galveston and Chambers counties after Hurricane Ike." It was replaced with Isaias for the 2014 season. Overall damage from the Turks and Caicos and The Bahamas was estimated between $50 million and $200 million. Ike's effects included deaths, widespread damage, and impacts to the price and availability of oil and gas. [109] This rain caused small inundations, storm drain overflows, and closed one major highway. [1] Also in Salem, Indiana, and Scottsburg, Indiana, wind gusts up to 81 mph (130 km/h) were recorded. however it continues to have a small inner core with an eye just under 10 n mi in diameter. [18], After passing over Inagua,[18] the development of a double eyewall—a feature that usually denotes the beginning of an eyewall replacement cycle—slightly weakened Ike late on September 7. Because the storm system moved rapidly and did not linger over Houston, flooding was not a major problem for most of the city, as it normally is in a storm event, as a result of the relatively flat topography. [121] A Galveston Bay Recovery Study (GBRS) was a survey distributed through a random stratified cluster sampling of victims in the Galveston Bay area for research on traumatic stress and disaster exposure. Quick Links and Additional Resources ... Graphicast About Marine. Many residents were angry at the response that FEMA gave to the problem. What can I actually do to increase my chances of survival? Hurricane Ike hit the Texas Gulf Coast four weeks ago. Hurricane Ike then explosively intensified and was upgraded to a major hurricane with winds of 185 km/h (115 mph) only three hours after being upgraded to a hurricane. [19] However, the hurricane was able to reintensify and reach Category 4 intensity for a final time before making landfall near Cabo Lucrecia on the coast of Holguín Province in Cuba by 00:00 UTC the next day. [23] By late on September 12, Ike had reached the western edge of the nearby high-pressure area and began to curve northward. The models diverge from each other, and the forces that steer such a storm are unpredictable themselves. [2] The sugar cane crop was devastated, with over 3,400 square kilometres (1,300 sq mi) destroyed. The eye of the storm made its second landfall in Cuba's Pinar del Rio province, about 55 miles (90km) south-west of Havana, packing sustained winds of 80mph (130km/h). Your browser or your browser's settings are not supported. The local pharmacy roof collapsed, destroying the area's prescription drug supply, the police station, and the prison was significantly damaged and local supplies facilities were either damaged or destroyed. [11] Over the next few hours, Ike developed additional rainbands,[12] but failed to a centralized area of convection due to the presence of dry air to the storm's south and its location in an area with only marginally favorable sea surface temperatures. Portlight delivered over $500,000 worth of equipment to people with disabilities and outlying communities that were impacted by Hurricane Ike. [79] While the area inside of the eye is relatively calm, the surrounding eyewall is where the harshest weather and winds occur. [6], The origins of Hurricane Ike can be traced back to a well-defined tropical wave first identified by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) just within the western coast of Africa on August 28. NASA's Johnson Space Center suffered minor roof damage to Mission Control and minor cosmetic damage to some of its other buildings. Some waited for up to two months, living in hotels, in homes of relatives several miles away, or in their homes, with no power or running water. And once again, New Orleans—still recovering from the weaker-than-expected Hurricane Gustav last week—could be in the crosshairs as Ike winds through its uncertain path. [15] At 06:00 UTC on September 4, Ike peaked with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour (233 kilometers per hour) and a minimum barometric pressure of 935 millibars (27.6 inches of mercury), making the storm a Category 4 on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale. [23] After tracking inland, Ike weakened as it sped northward and later northeastward, weakening to tropical storm status east of Palestine, Texas late on September 13 and later becoming a powerful extratropical cyclone on September 14 over the Ozarks. [117], After Hurricane Ike, many residents applied to FEMA for loans and FEMA trailers. It was supposed to be used to repair single-family homes of lower and middle-class income families, but as of 2011 only 10% of those funds were released, while the rest were held up because of "state bureaucracy". [91] Due to flooding in Chicago, Todd Stroger declared a state of emergency for Cook County due to flooding of the Des Plaines River. Power was lost throughout Grand Turk Island, an estimated 80%–95% of the houses there were damaged, 20% of which was a total loss. Hurricane Matthew path caused substantial damage in September and October 2016. [93] Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport was also temporarily shut down, and the control tower was evacuated. The tentative five-day projection from the National Hurricane Center indicates that Ike may cut a path straight through the Gulf and make landfall somewhere near Galveston, Texas. "Social Environment." The winds forced it over just before the eye of the storm passed over. [141] Isaias, however, was not used in 2014. [118], $3.1 billion in federal aid was eventually allocated to Texas by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. At best, we will feel the effects of the outer bands of Ike, but fortunately, it looks like the eye (and the strongest winds that surround it) will not hit us directly. Ike was a large storm, and at the time of this image it was affecting three nations: Cuba, the United States, and Mexico. of Wisconsin. [87] Estimates of lost homes in the peninsula were around 80%. [124][125], Hurricane Ike forced the Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs to play out their 3-game set in Milwaukee at Miller Park. infrastructure, we haven't moved into the later stage of looking path. Ormond Beach and Jacksonville, in Florida, also … [65] Increases were particularly high in North Carolina, especially in the mountains, where average prices were as much as 60 cents higher than the national average. Hurricane Ike – Roughly an hour before this image was captured at 1:50 p.m. Central Daylight Time on September 10, 2008, Ike was a Category 2 hurricane according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Ike… [1] As of August 2011, 16 people remain unaccounted for, 11 of them in the Galveston area. Visitors were told to leave on Saturday. Some weakening is forecast during the next 24 to 48 hours. Hurricane Ike also had a long-term impact on the U.S. economy. The hardest hit area was southwestern Haiti, with eastern Cuba, western Grand Bahama Island and South Carolina and Florida in the U.S. also impacted. Wind damage and/or flooding rains followed the path of Ike into the southern Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and into New England. The ninth tropical storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, Ike developed from a tropical wave west of Cape Verde on September 1[nb 1] and strengthened to a peak intensity as a Category 4 hurricane over the open waters of the central Atlantic on September 4 as it tracked westward. Ike is forecast to reach the Bahamas by Monday still at hurricane strength. Hurricane Ike (/aɪk/) was a powerful tropical cyclone that swept through portions of the Greater Antilles and Northern America in September 2008, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agriculture, particularly in Cuba and Texas. They also delivered pizza to the residents of the hard-hit Bolivar peninsula and helped provide a Christmas party for residents of Bridge City, Texas. If the eye of a storm is over your area, you will experience a short period of calm. [106] In total, 28 deaths have been blamed on Ike in the inland states. Hurricane Ike, not too far behind, is threatening the Caribbean as it heads toward the gulf as a weaker Category 3 storm. The last bridge still standing into the city of Gonaïves was washed away, slowing relief in the community considerably and creating a deep humanitarian and food crisis in the hard-hit region. The British HMS Iron Duke (F234) was sent to the islands to assist in recovery efforts, and personnel from the British Red Cross were also dispatched. 2009. In regional Texas towns, electrical power began failing before 8 p.m. CDT, leaving more than 3 million people without power. [1] Damage also occurred on other islands, mostly agricultural or the fishing industry, but in general, the damage was minor.[1]. [126] Ike also forced the postponement of the second-week NFL game between the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens. The peninsula bore the brunt of Ike's right-front quadrant, historically the worst part of a hurricane, and experienced catastrophic damage with the worst being between Rollover Pass and Gilchrist, Texas – west of High Island. Power was lost throughout Grand Turk Island, an estimated 80%–95% of the houses there were damaged, 20% of which was a total loss. Hurricane Ike hit the Texas Gulf Coast four weeks ago. Watch Hurricane 360, Mondays at 9/8c! A Duke Energy spokesperson said "We have never seen anything like this. [1] A two-year-old cruise ship terminal in South Caicos owned by Carnival Cruise Lines was significantly damaged. [122] Development of these mental health problems was due to the lack of sufficient clean clothing, electricity, food, money, transportation, or water for at least one week.

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