Hurricane Ike Sept 10 15 2008 Organized

Hurricane Ike: Sept. 10 – 15, 2008 Organized by Joe Naumann UMSL

Ike’s Projected Path St. Louis, MO Louisville, KY Galveston. Houston Cuba

Hurricane Gustav left a path of destruction through Cuba and Hurricane Ike added more destruction – September 10 PRE-TEXAS LANDFALL

Hurricane Winds Reach Cuba

Ike’s storm surge reaches the Cuban coast

Hurricane winds in Los Pozas, Cuba

Camaguey, Cuba

Camaguey, Cuba

Cubans playing in a flooded street

Pinar del Rio, Cuba during the hurricane

Havana

Havana

Cubans Cleaning Up Havana

Great damage was done to the Cuban orange crop: 1000’s torn from trees

Cutting up fallen & damaged orange trees

Damage in Pinar del Rio, Cuba

Baracoa in Guantanamno Province, Cuba

People in Baracoa, Cuba, retrieve some of their belongings

On the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos

On the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos

Flooding in Gonaives, Haiti

Flood damage in Cabaret, Haiti

While Ike was over Cuba, it also impacted Key West, Florida

Flooded street in Key West Florida

Ike arrives as a category 2 hurricane – September 12. GALVESTON & HOUSTON, TEXAS TAKE A BIG HIT!

Preparing for the hurricane

Waiting for the evacuation bus in Galveston, Texas

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She was really too close to the Galveston Sea Wall

Galveston – Remember that this was only a category 2 hurricane

Burning beach house in Galveston

Coast road undermined by storm-surge water

Destroyed marina and boats

Texas National Guard in Galveston

President Bush flies over Galveston Island

Destruction in Galveston

Rescue worker in Galveston

Rescue in Galveston

People trying to return to Galveston were turned back

Cleaning up with a glass of clean water – water shortage!

Due to power outages, spoiled frozen foods had to be removed from the shelves.

Piles of spoiled food need to be removed

Boats washed up on the beach at Baytown, Texas

Idled oil refinery in Baytown, Texas

Red Cross preparing to assist Baytown, Texas

Seabrook, Texas

All that remains of a home on Oak Island, Texas

Examining the remains of a house in Crystal Beach, Texas

Cemetery in Orange, Texas

Orange, Texas

Dead fish left stranded by receding flood waters in Orange, Texas

Nassau Bay, Texas

Gilchrist, Texas

Remains of a house in Gilchrist, Texas

Erath, Texas

Padre Palli Park on Padre Island

Friendswood, Texas

North Beach in Corpus Christi, Texas

El Lago, Texas

In line for food and drinkable water in Pasadena, Texas

Emergency meals for families in Pasadena, Texas

The sale of generators became quite brisk

Moving cattle to higher ground

Moving cattle to safety

HOUSTON TAKES A BIG HIT!

Downtown Houston

Downtown highway

North of downtown Houston

J. P. Morgan Chase Tower with thousands of windows blown out

Shattered glass from J. P. Morgan Chase Tower Windows

J. P. Morgan Chase Tower being boarded up

Houston service workers preparing to make repairs & restore power

Oil refinery near Houston idled.

Out of gas in Houston

Long lines where gas was still available in Houston

FEMA distribution point In Houston

Texas National Guard distributing food

September 14, 2008 IKE’S PATH FROM HOUSTON TO THE GREATER ST. LOUIS AREA

Fences down in Louisville, Kentucky

Trees down on Louisville, Kentucky golf course

Roof off in Benson, Kentucky

Benson, Kentucky

Tree down in Benson, Kentucky

Trees down in Benson, Kentucky

September 14, 2008 WIDESPREAD FLASH FLOODING IN METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

Metro-St. Louis Flash Flood Sites

Afton athletic field

Afton Athletic Field

Bayless area

Full creek

Overflowing creek

Brentwood Area

Carondolet Park area – S. St. Louis

Crestwood Area

Chesterfield

Creve Coeur Park & Creve Coeur Mill Road

Power lines down at Creve Coeur Lake

Fenton Area Cleanup

Ferguson

Florissant

Washington & Lindbergh - Florissant

Florissant: Old St. Ferdinand Shrine

Florissant Fire Dept. helps

Hazelwood – French Quarter Apartments

Illinois – Collinsville & Highland

Imperial

Ladue

Maplewood

N. St. Louis County

Creek entering River des Peres

Rock Hill – Manchester Rd.

Silex, Missouri

St. Charles County

University City

Webster Groves

Damage Estimates? • Sept. 15, 2008 Hazelwood city officials estimated there was 20 million dollars of damage in that city. • The total cost to insurance companies may run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.