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Sun Sep-14-08 02:39 PM
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| A good slideshow of the devastation resulting from Ike |
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Sun Sep-14-08 02:43 PM
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| 1. For those of you who haven't been through a hurricane before |
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This is what a near miss from a cat 2 storm looks like.
This is what being spared from total destruction looks like.
If the eye had come ashore just south of Galveston, Galveston would have ceased to exist...
...again.
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Sun Sep-14-08 04:01 PM
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| 7. Cat 3, if the wind had been just 1 mph more. |
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That's why I don't like to think in terms of catagories..
there are so many other variables which determine damage.
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Sun Sep-14-08 02:47 PM
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| 2. I hope the young man in photo #9 made it. |
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Sun Sep-14-08 02:49 PM
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| 3. I think that was done only for dramatic effect... |
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it looks like his big gas pig is there in the background to cart him away.
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Sun Sep-14-08 04:16 PM
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| 8. Um he's not really hanging on against the wind |
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Edited on Sun Sep-14-08 04:17 PM by Concerned GA Voter
He's having a moment of levity amid the chaos by holding himself up on the pole with his weight supported on his left elbow and hip.
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Sun Sep-14-08 05:35 PM
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Sun Sep-14-08 08:06 PM
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Spy vs. Spy Snark vs. Snark ;-)
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Sun Sep-14-08 02:51 PM
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| 4. Is the guy in #11 flipping off mother nature?? |
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Sun Sep-14-08 02:53 PM
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Sun Sep-14-08 03:22 PM
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| 6. Looks more like he is holding something n/t |
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