As Ike marched westward towards the United States, I downloaded newscasts from cable and TV stations to document the path of the hurricane. It ultimately made landfall at Galveston, Texas.
This Hurricane was not fun one bit. I live in southeast Texas about 30 minutes from Galveston. We had 2 weeks without any power and had major flooding in my neighborhood. Storm surge was really bad with this one.
GordanFreeman23, I am looking for people to interview who lived in the Galveston area during Hurricane Ike for a study that I am doing. If you would be willing to answer a few questions and could email me at godsgroupies@gmail.com I would very much appreciate it. Thank you
I'm form 2021 I can tell you things that will happen that year the vaccine got released Joe Biden became president there was a mass destruction at the White House in January 6th
I've survived Rita (2005), Ike (08), Harvey (17), Imelda (19), I've seen em all as a Houston native and I'm ready for more 3:42 that forecast cone brings back memories
Same, Just I didnt experience rita and ike. Harvey a whole different thing. Nearly same level of Ike's destruction. Imelda wasnt a problem for me. Its was like Beta
I was 5 during hurricane Ike and lived in tomball texas which is a northern suburb of houston. I remember the wind being like nothing I'd ever seen. We went to my grandma's house that had no power, and when we finally got home, there was about an inch of water in the house but our power was on.
It was my 15th birthday when Ike hit Houston. I was super excited because that meant no school. Lol. We had no power. No stores had water. But somehow my parents still got me a cake :D
Scariest hurricane I ever sat through. My family was supposed to evacuate but for some reason they didn't and being a young teenager I couldnt leave on my own. It was so loud and the power went out at night.
Harvey wasn’t a hurricane. It was a tropical storm. I was 8 during hurricane Ike and I remember it vividly. Harvey didn’t even come close to how horrible Ike was. Harvey was just downpours of rain. I’m watching this right now hoping Laura doesn’t become another situation like Hurricane Ike.
Bro i lived in texas city when ike hit and everybody at my apt complex ate bbq for like a week...we was without power for a week but everyone came together a bbqd cuz we had to do something with the meat without power
I remember the time when Ike hit Houston. I didn’t understand what was going on, are house flooded, my mom and my sister had to carry me and my twin brother to a different house walking through high water in a driveway. We lost many things when it ended. It was terrifying, I was only 4 years old and I saw the water seep into the house. Me and my brother had to stand on the couch to stay away from the water. Then Harvey happened 2 years ago, and I was scared I honestly believe I have developed a kind of PTSD from Harvey, I mean I physically and mentally can’t be in a thunderstorm without having severe anxiety and just sheer fear of what will happen. I get OCD (obsessive compulsion disorder) every time a thunderstorm hits or just a storm seems to be forming nearby. Just hearing the warnings from my phone makes me scared, and remember the hurricane. Nothing was so emotional for me to see the sun again when the storm was gone. I remember my mom asking why I was crying to I responded with “we made it”
i lived in Cypress, TX (suburb or Houston) at the time of Ike. i don’t remember anything, as i was only 2, but my mom has always told me that there was complete destruction in Galveston. we didn’t have much damage, just a few shingles gone, a broken window, and a flooded street, and i’m thankful for that. i’m sorry to everyone else who was affected by this. my thoughts and condolences to everyone.
Wait really, no way! I also live in a suburb of Houston, Webster, and I was also 2. Luckily we were okay and so was our house, no lost trees. I think Ike was more wind, Harvey was worse, because the water got up higher then ever, all the way up to the sidewalks!
Ike was much worse than many know. The storm surge was several feet higher than expected since the storm was much larger and more intense earlier so the dome of early water near the eye never dissepated. Also Ike came in at a more northwesterly angle raising the late surge to higher than the 1900 storm, the most deadly in US history. The seawall saved almost all in Galveston in Ike but just to the North on the Boliver Penninsula, there were hundreds swept away when the surge cut off their escape early and strong waves beat down almost all the structures between sea level and 22 ft elevation. Deaths were higher than ever reported because so many were not recovered from the bay. So I learned from my neighbor, a diver and his asdociates. Galveston County simply hushed it up.
I slept through most of the storm, my parents woke me up a few times to look outside as the storm got worse, but I was OUT. But afterward was no fun at all, we had no power for 3 weeks, so we had to go stay with my aunt in league city. But that was fine because my school was closed for at least 2 weeks until they got power back.
I slept on our balcony and watch all the pine trees sway over like never seen before, I was an intrigued amarillo transplant so I was expecting something similar to a tornado but the hurricane lasted much longer
I was 6, 7 in a month and my home was fine somehow, this is what started my interest in hurricanes. The power was out for a week :o I still live in Houston today
The eye went right over us. We have a well built house. It's new, and it's built up to code 10 miles inland, and that betch was swaying. I was terrified. The trees were falling down all around us. I thought for sure one of them was going to fall on the house.
The Weather channel people act like Clowns, everytime I see them reporting a storm, they fall down, or get blown over, just as you noticed after this guy stumbles and nearly falls, he gets back up, suddenly the winds not affecting him anymore, get real, I survived Hurricane Ike, was in it, I didnt get blown over,, they do it just to make the report more exciting..
Fell asleep after the eye passed over my house.. was pretty cool to scope things out while the winds were down. wasn't quite so fun when they came back around from the other direction. Got back inside in quite a hurry lol.
The NWS made a big mistake ranking hurricanes by winds only instead of by wind, pressure and potential storm surge. On a 1 to 5 scale with these factors Ike was a category 4 storm. I went through Alicia (strong cat 3) as a kid in 1983 and that storm was not as bad.
Ike was one of the most under rated hurricanes..& these reporters dont help. First, it was practically a cat 5 out over the Atlantic. Second, it was only a cat 2 in the gulf but he was MASSIVE and on the new energy scale he was practically equivalent to Katrina when she was at C5 strength- that's why his storm surge was so incredible. Third, he was ultimately the most costly Cuban hurricane &the second most costly US hurricane in recorded history. You guys who live thru this stuff are amazing.
Rode Ike out like a boss!! My uncle and I smoked a cig before the worst of the winds came in. Had no power for like a week and half! Slept in the car for ac.. Crazy week
Who’s here before Laura hits ?
Lol im here
Here
Me
Beta
Gamma
This Hurricane was not fun one bit. I live in southeast Texas about 30 minutes from Galveston. We had 2 weeks without any power and had major flooding in my neighborhood. Storm surge was really bad with this one.
GordanFreeman23 i agree i live 1 mile away from san antonio and major flooding ang power outage was not good i had to move out where i used to live
GordanFreeman23, I am looking for people to interview who lived in the Galveston area during Hurricane Ike for a study that I am doing. If you would be willing to answer a few questions and could email me at godsgroupies@gmail.com I would very much appreciate it. Thank you
My name is Ike
GordanFreeman23 we have a new 2019 tropical storm Dorian
lucky on the typhoon Kammuri, December 3-25 of blackout, lasted 23 days (3 weeks, 2 days)
i hate storms
2020 who’s here? 🙋🏻♂️
Aye gg lmao
I'm form 2021 I can tell you things that will happen that year the vaccine got released Joe Biden became president there was a mass destruction at the White House in January 6th
I've survived Rita (2005), Ike (08), Harvey (17), Imelda (19), I've seen em all as a Houston native and I'm ready for more
3:42 that forecast cone brings back memories
you ready for laura tomorrow?
@@macyjay9936 yes
Same, Just I didnt experience rita and ike. Harvey a whole different thing. Nearly same level of Ike's destruction. Imelda wasnt a problem for me. Its was like Beta
@@macyjay9936 naw
"YOU'LL GET NO SYMPATHY FROM ME!"
"WE LIKE IKE, WE LIKE IKE-"
Don't kill me please, it's a joke related to Fire Emblem Ike, and Smash Bros Ike.
Anyone still watching this after Harvey?
Yep
Eddie Perez yup
You know it.
same here
Hurricane Ike can to flood for his Friends.
I was 5 during hurricane Ike and lived in tomball texas which is a northern suburb of houston. I remember the wind being like nothing I'd ever seen. We went to my grandma's house that had no power, and when we finally got home, there was about an inch of water in the house but our power was on.
*_PREPARE YOURSELF_*
I live in Houston TX and I was living 3 weeks without power
EmiloeWorld ya
EmiloeWorld I remember I was like 6 or 7 years old when ike hit
EmiloeWorld i had a generator
I was 4 years old at that time ;-;
I was born with out power in my hospital cause this hurricane
That's why even the meteorologist can't predict where a hurricane is going....
Hurricane Ike... Prepare yourself!
PREPARE YOURSELF
It was my 15th birthday when Ike hit Houston. I was super excited because that meant no school. Lol. We had no power. No stores had water. But somehow my parents still got me a cake :D
That's awesome!
I died laughing at 7:45
I tried not to laugh but it's impossible
it's cat 1 dude
dislilramchiq 8
Scariest hurricane I ever sat through. My family was supposed to evacuate but for some reason they didn't and being a young teenager I couldnt leave on my own. It was so loud and the power went out at night.
7:41 The absolute best (and maybe only) thing about hurricanes is watching these reporters roll around in the wind! 🤣🤣🤣
Sometimes I think the Weather channel people blow things out of Proportion to make the newscast very dramatic, infact, I know they do.
I was in hurricane Ike in Kentucky 2008 catgory 1
Boinit never made it there lol
I was two years old when this happened in Houston texas and now I'm eleven when hurricane Harvey hit it. Was not fun at all
Harvey wasn’t a hurricane. It was a tropical storm. I was 8 during hurricane Ike and I remember it vividly. Harvey didn’t even come close to how horrible Ike was. Harvey was just downpours of rain. I’m watching this right now hoping Laura doesn’t become another situation like Hurricane Ike.
You'll get no sympathy from this Hurricane
I ate nothing but beans and carne asada, it felt more like a vacation lol
Bro i lived in texas city when ike hit and everybody at my apt complex ate bbq for like a week...we was without power for a week but everyone came together a bbqd cuz we had to do something with the meat without power
@@buffetkage yeah same here we didn't wanted to waste all our meat becasue tbe fridge could've stink...
@@javierramirez1295 bro we ate bbq like everyday that the power was off lol...i ate fajita chicken and beef bro 👍
@@buffetkage that's awesome hahahahahahaha XD
Where did ya find the clips from the weather channel coverage of Ike at?
I remember the time when Ike hit Houston. I didn’t understand what was going on, are house flooded, my mom and my sister had to carry me and my twin brother to a different house walking through high water in a driveway. We lost many things when it ended. It was terrifying, I was only 4 years old and I saw the water seep into the house. Me and my brother had to stand on the couch to stay away from the water. Then Harvey happened 2 years ago, and I was scared I honestly believe I have developed a kind of PTSD from Harvey, I mean I physically and mentally can’t be in a thunderstorm without having severe anxiety and just sheer fear of what will happen. I get OCD (obsessive compulsion disorder) every time a thunderstorm hits or just a storm seems to be forming nearby. Just hearing the warnings from my phone makes me scared, and remember the hurricane. Nothing was so emotional for me to see the sun again when the storm was gone. I remember my mom asking why I was crying to I responded with “we made it”
9:00 No it did not dissipate rapidly because this Hurricane Ike had such a LARGE EYEWALL. It was an anomaly.
Is it me or does this kinda look like Hurricane Irma
WhyAreYouReadingThis? Agreed
WhyAreYouReadingThis? Youll get no sympathy from Ike
Actually it’s the other way around
i had no power for three weeks and i just had a newborn the heat was horrible !
They said maybe Florida it's missed Florida. Poor Texas and you know wha funny I was supposed to move to Texas during ike
I live in Galveston. Hurricane Harvey
EITHER!
i lived in Cypress, TX (suburb or Houston) at the time of Ike. i don’t remember anything, as i was only 2, but my mom has always told me that there was complete destruction in Galveston. we didn’t have much damage, just a few shingles gone, a broken window, and a flooded street, and i’m thankful for that. i’m sorry to everyone else who was affected by this. my thoughts and condolences to everyone.
Ur one cool humble kid...GOD BLESS U 👍
Wait really, no way! I also live in a suburb of Houston, Webster, and I was also 2. Luckily we were okay and so was our house, no lost trees. I think Ike was more wind, Harvey was worse, because the water got up higher then ever, all the way up to the sidewalks!
ABC 13 ftw!:)
I was so scarred
I was 24 when IKE made landfall
I was living in Jersey Village houston Tx at the time.
I was 1 when this happened.
So this is what the news was like when the lights and electricity were out in Houston when I was riding it out
Ike was much worse than many know. The storm surge was several feet higher than expected since the storm was much larger and more intense earlier so the dome of early water near the eye never dissepated. Also Ike came in at a more northwesterly angle raising the late surge to higher than the 1900 storm, the most deadly in US history. The seawall saved almost all in Galveston in Ike but just to the North on the Boliver Penninsula, there were hundreds swept away when the surge cut off their escape early and strong waves beat down almost all the structures between sea level and 22 ft elevation. Deaths were higher than ever reported because so many were not recovered from the bay. So I learned from my neighbor, a diver and his asdociates. Galveston County simply hushed it up.
The fun thing about this storm was the power went out!
But bad is my neighbors fence fell over!
I slept through most of the storm, my parents woke me up a few times to look outside as the storm got worse, but I was OUT. But afterward was no fun at all, we had no power for 3 weeks, so we had to go stay with my aunt in league city. But that was fine because my school was closed for at least 2 weeks until they got power back.
I slept on our balcony and watch all the pine trees sway over like never seen before, I was an intrigued amarillo transplant so I was expecting something similar to a tornado but the hurricane lasted much longer
I’m here for nostalgia I remember COD World at War released in November that year many memories……..
Went through the eye it was the most awesome thing ive ever witnessed
I live in Houston TX and I was living 3 weeks without power
My family and I were lucky, power was only out for 8 hours.
I had been living in Galveston for a month - lost my apartment, lost my job, everything. Of course FEMA didn't give me anything either...
I fight for my friends
7:44 We need to make this into a meme or something
Ikr
Can't believe it hit all the way in Texas instead of Florida
Trying to compare Beryl to Ike😳
I was 6, 7 in a month and my home was fine somehow, this is what started my interest in hurricanes. The power was out for a week :o I still live in Houston today
i was 10 me and my family stayed home the winds were roaring it was so scary man
Erick Hernandez same
Erick Hernandez I was 5
Erick Hernandez what part of Houston
north side
The eye went right over us. We have a well built house. It's new, and it's built up to code 10 miles inland, and that betch was swaying. I was terrified. The trees were falling down all around us. I thought for sure one of them was going to fall on the house.
Best decision I ever made was to evaluate Houston to Dallas.
BAD BAD BAD BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Weather channel people act like Clowns, everytime I see them reporting a storm, they fall down, or get blown over, just as you noticed after this guy stumbles and nearly falls, he gets back up, suddenly the winds not affecting him anymore, get real, I survived Hurricane Ike, was in it, I didnt get blown over,, they do it just to make the report more exciting..
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Not a single “forecaster” got this right. What a joke.
Fell asleep after the eye passed over my house.. was pretty cool to scope things out while the winds were down. wasn't quite so fun when they came back around from the other direction. Got back inside in quite a hurry lol.
I slept like a baby in ike. Greatest sleep I ever had.
I was born during this hurricane
The NWS made a big mistake ranking hurricanes by winds only instead of by wind, pressure and potential storm surge. On a 1 to 5 scale with these factors Ike was a category 4 storm. I went through Alicia (strong cat 3) as a kid in 1983 and that storm was not as bad.
Ike was a nightmare.
Why am I here it’s 2020
I evacuated to Lake Charles during Ike. Still ended up getting a bunch of rain and wind; power went out and even some tree branches went down.
Ike was one of the most under rated hurricanes..& these reporters dont help. First, it was practically a cat 5 out over the Atlantic. Second, it was only a cat 2 in the gulf but he was MASSIVE and on the new energy scale he was practically equivalent to Katrina when she was at C5 strength- that's why his storm surge was so incredible. Third, he was ultimately the most costly Cuban hurricane &the second most costly US hurricane in recorded history. You guys who live thru this stuff are amazing.
I had to live through this storm. Three weeks with no power. It was absolutely terrible.
Rode Ike out like a boss!! My uncle and I smoked a cig before the worst of the winds came in. Had no power for like a week and half! Slept in the car for ac.. Crazy week
hurricanes are cute
I stayed... and we were out of power for two in half weeks.....but one good thing came out of it...i conceived my son during the black outs..lol
I was born in 2008 now its 2017 so im 9 and born in... Omg i cant remeber were wait missipy if thats how you spell it
8:30 omg
here in Santo Domingo we felt TS conditions all the island... gusty winds and heavy rain
one of the windiest hurricanes ever. Im from houston and it knocked down so many trees
the name IKE was used in the western north pacific too in 1984,it has slightly higher in intensity bu still a cat-4
there were bodies floating onshore on boliver peninsula for weeks after this storm.
7:40 winds were powerful enough for him to loose his man power , must have been one heck of a night for them
How does a hurricane go from Texas to Ohio lol I live in Ohio
thank you so much! this really helped me for my project
I remember the military come thru with some MREs on this one
LOL ISSAC WE NEED YOU lol they saying you going to florida!
7:45 🤣
It was like irma and the I hurricanes are bad
Man these people better of recieved extra pay
Yeah we lost power for almost two weeks!
i survied Hurricane Ike :D I live in houston texas
The eye passed over my house. It was...creepy.
Why the majority of these storms have to come on land in the middle of the night is just amazing to me.
i ask myself this too.. its amazing..i remember it like it was just yesterday the winds were roaring
what do youe mean by crappy?
wtf only a catagory 2.....I can't imagine a catahory 5 then . ..I remember hurricane sandy hit Philly as a category 1
Anthony Murray well your about to witness a cat 5 or 6 now with irma
chris2crazzy
Cat 6 dosesnt exist...
Also harvey was much worse than irma
Wind speed over 75 + miles per hour
damm I was in it it had more power than Katrina the only thing Katrina do was flood
Giovanni Rangel so true #houstonmaters
I was 7 when this hit Galveston 😭
We didn't have power for like 2 weeks
I was in this and it was pain
I lived though it in houston
I was 4 months old
@Xgalaxy4 i live in nh so
Ike was so crappy in Katy
Thanks. Great compilation!
and speaking of IKE!!!
I was like 4 lol
Do tornadoes
oh my gonts
Cool video!