Coast Guard video shows Galveston flooding

[Dover]

A new U.S. Coast Guard video shows extensive flooding on Galveston Island. The video was taken around 2:45 p.m. today by an HU-25 Falcon jet from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobila, Ala.

Download the video at: http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php/v/video/9-13-08+Hurricane+Ike.wmv.html

[EFerrari]

1. It never loads for me. n/t

[msongs]

2. video doesnt open and play -waited 4 minutes n thats enuff for that :-) nt

[Dover]

10. Here's another one >

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/07/templates/listpop.html?vid=1785322646

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3. Galveston residents and officials assess Ike's wrath

Galveston residents and officials assess Ike's wrath



In Galveston today, storm-battered residents who declined to evacuate from Hurricane Ike's path gingerly crept from their homes to assess the damage.

Galveston officials today worried about the fate of about 23,000 people who ignored a mandatory evacuation order.

Some tried to call for rescues as the hurricane struck, but dispatchers had to decline because emergency units were taken off the streets.

The storm surge was expected to be 14 feet to 17 feet on Galveston Island. Harris County Judge Ed Emmett said the surge peaked at 11 to 12 feet on the west side of the storm and is expected to recede. However, the surge is now pushing to the east, he added.

"We don't know what we're going to find (today)," said Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas. "We hope we'll find that the people who didn't leave here are alive and well."

Galveston officials this afternoon said they were no confirmed fatalties so far. Officials said they are continuing to rescue people. They had searched 42 buildings and rescued 27 people who were taken to the Ball High School shelter.

Ten buildings have burned to the ground because the fire department could not get to them. Seven buildings collapsed because of wind. Two of the seven that collapsed were apartment buildings. Officials said they don't know if anyone was inside.

Going east to west on the 32-mile long island, emergency rescue personnel have been able to get as far as the 11 mile road marker. That means roughly two-thirds of the island still remains inaccessible.

Huge areas of the island remain underwater. At an afternoon press conference, Thomas said officials they were intiating a recovery plan, but would not provide more details about the plan.

A spokesperson for the mayor said National Guard troops are on the way, though National Guard helicopters are already there.

No one is allowed into the island. There's still a lot of debris on the causeway. They have cleared a path so people can get off island.

The Galveston Fire Department received more than 100 calls after emergency personnel had ceased rescue operations at around 7 p.m. Friday night, and Fire Chief Michael A. Varela, Sr., said they planned to make those visits ''as soon as weather permits."

Those who called were told to ''be patient, to get up as high as they can, get in their homes" and that rescuers ''will get to them as soon as we can."

In Austin, state emergency officials said water was encroaching from both ends of the island as well as over the seawall. The University of Texas Medical Branch was taking on water, officials said....>

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5999540.html

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4. Houston Chronicle Photo Gallery

http://www.chron.com/news/photogallery/Galveston_suffers_direct_hit_from_Hurricane_Ike.html

http://www.chron.com/news/photogallery/Editors_Top_Pictures.html

[Dover]

5. /dupe/

[RB TexLa]

6. Unbelievable. I was there on the weekend of July 4th to 6th.

[rainbow4321]

7. Texas Cable News just interviewed someone rescued via helicopter

News person asked what they saw..the woman responded "Crystal Beach is gone. Gone". When asked if it looked like people didn't make it out alive has said "They could not have, it's all gone". Report said that High Island made it thru reasonably OK. Here is a map of the area that they talked about:







http://www.crystalbeach.com/newpage.htm

[ColbertWatcher]

8. VIDEO IS WORKING NOW - Wow.

Your image inspired me to look for that house on the right on google maps to see a contrast (before it's Orwelled).

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Galveston+Island,+Texas&sll=29.219536,-94.909043&sspn=0.004635,0.006598&ie=UTF8&ll=29.2008,-94.940079&spn=0.001159,0.00165&t=h&z=19

I think that's it.

[malaise]

11. Looks like it wasn't poor people who decided to stay home n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

12. Are there people in those houses? n/t

[malaise]

13. Who knows? n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. .

:wow:

[Dover]

14. This is an excellent site for aerials, photos, videos

http://snarkfood.com/coast-guard-fly-over-of-galveston-island-texas/