#hurricane ivan

[a-girl-must-have-a-new-name]

Tomorrow marks 16 years to the day since Hurricane Ivan and we get stuck in Sally the strongest hurricane we've dealt with since. We are already flooding and the power has been flickering so we'll probably lose it during the night.

[pet-diary]

06.10.18. // My favorite abandoned gas station. Closed after the same hurricane that destroyed my grandparent’s trailer home (Ivan, 2004)... We used to buy boiled peanuts here. I took some film photos, which I will post to @brittanieloren and @beyourpet

[upallnightogetloki]

Ok so let me tell y'all something about hurricane evacuations when you have sizable populations like Houston:

They’re traumatic. They’re dangerous.

For reference, I’ll give you 2: Hurricane Ivan (2004) and Hurricane Rita (2005).

IVAN: All of New Orleans at the time of Ivan (one year before Katrina) was advised to evacuate because Ivan was a Cat 5 and predicted to hit the city dead on. At the time, NOLA was around 500K people and we were all under mandatory evacuation.

We went West because Ivan was predicted to hit us then swing East. Most people picked West.

Houston is normally anywhere from a 4-6.5 hour drive via I-10 depending on how fast or slow you go and traffic, weather, etc. are factors.

Well contraflow failed and it took us 12 hours to reach Baton Rouge which is an hour away at best. Then it took us another 13 to make it to Houston.

25 fucking hours on a freeway.

Ivan ended up swinging further East last minute and lost power and hit Alabama as a Cat 3.

To this very day (13 years later), when I sit in traffic by myself (hell, sometimes even with others in the car), I freak out because it reminds me too much of evacuation and I start getting really bad anxiety.

RITA: Rita came three weeks after Katrina y'all. Three.

Rita was ALSO a Cat 5 and was predicted to strike Southeast Texas and Southwest/east Louisiana.

That included other areas that had already suffered from Katrina and Houston. Houston had about 2 million people at that time and was also hosting Katrina evacuees from Louisiana and now everyone was being told to evacuate. People literally sat in their cars on the freeway for over a day not getting anywhere. Kam Franklin on Twitter made a note that it took her 23 hours to get to San Antonio which is 3.5 hours away from Houston.

Rita also decreased to a Cat 3 and swung a little further East than Houston and fucked up pretty much all of Texas and Louisiana along the border but the evacuation damage had already been done.

For both of these storms, people ran out of gas on the road and were trapped and stuck. Gas stations for miles around were out of fuel and people couldn’t get anywhere and this was during heat spells of 90º-100º weather. There were accidents. I don’t remember if anyone died during Ivan’s evacuation but it’s most likely given the conditions. I know for a fact people 100 people died while evacuating from Houston during Rita.

The mayor saved lives by telling them not to evacuate. If he had called for a mandatory evacuation while Harvey was still a tropical depression, there would’ve been thousands and thousands of dead bodies in vehicles along the freeway on Friday and Saturday with how fast that water came in.

Then evacuation is expensive. A lot cannot afford to do so. Evacuations are also hard on those that are not able-bodied or in good physical health. The poor, the elderly, and the disabled are the most at risk at all times during these disasters.

So don’t fucking talk shit about what you don’t fucking know about. Don’t say people deserve it for not evacuating when not evacuating is most likely what saved their lives.

Do not sit on your high and mighty thrones saying that’s what they get for living where they live when there is no area in this country completely safe from a natural disaster.

Sit the fuck down. And if you don’t want to help and just want to run your fucking mouth off, shut the entire fuck up and go be useless elsewhere.

[dancinbutterfly]

I was made homeless by a hurricane when I was 8. And 17. And I’m still fucked up over it.

Now the biggest hurricane in history hits tonight.  I’m a PTSD riddled hurricane survivor. 

SO! 

Who wants to get fucking wasted and watch trashy TV with me? (wasted portion is fully optional on your part but I will be drinking. like. a lot.)

If you respond to this - I’m assuming you’re game. Be warned.

[caymannewsservice]

Living through Ivan, remembering the storm

(CNS): As Hurricane Helene, which passed the Cayman Islands as a tropical storm, slams Florida with Category 4 winds and up to 20-foot storm surge, we can reflect on how we have once again dodged a major bullet. We weren’t always so lucky. In September 2004, Grand Cayman was hit by Hurricane Ivan, and four years later, in November 2008, Hurricane Paloma swept over the Sister Islands.  Continue…

Living through Ivan, remembering the storm

[sanzameta]

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Ideato e diretto dall’illustratore, musicista e fumettista Ivan Manuppelli,…

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[noisemx]

Hurricane Ivan - Zombina and the Skeletones “In Sinistereo, (Part 1-4)”.

https://zombinaandtheskeletones1.bandcamp.com/album/in-sinistereo-part-one https://zombinaandtheskeletones1.bandcamp.com/album/in-sinistereo-part-two https://zombinaandtheskeletones1.bandcamp.com/album/in-sinistereo-part-three-2 https://zombinaandtheskeletones1.bandcamp.com/album/in-sinistereo-part-four

http://www.hurricaneivan.net/

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Hurricane Ivan from the Space Station

Image Credit: Expedition 9 Crew, International Space Station, NASA

Explanation: Ninety percent of the houses on Grenada were damaged by the destructive force of Hurricane Ivan. At its peak in 2004, Ivan was a Category 5 hurricane, the highest power category on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, and created sustained winds in excess of 200 kilometers per hour. Ivan was the largest hurricane to strike the US in 2004, and one of the more powerful in recorded history. As it swirled in the Atlantic Ocean, the tremendous eye of Hurricane Ivan was photographed from above by the orbiting International Space Station. The name Ivan has now been retired from Atlantic Ocean use by the World Meteorological Organization. This month, Hurricane Matthew devastated part of Haiti and is currently swirling just off the east coast of the USA.

Taken from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day Space--Bot is a computer program that searches for space images.