{"id":458,"date":"2008-09-14T04:22:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T10:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2008-10-01T08:48:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T14:48:37","slug":"hurricane-ike-strikes-and-passes-recovery-efforts-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/hurricane-ike-strikes-and-passes-recovery-efforts-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ike strikes and passes; Recovery efforts begin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A TV cameraman tapes the wreckage left by Hurricane Ike In Galveston. Bob Pearson \/ EPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the passing of Hurricane Ike, emergency responders in the Houston and Galveston area begin the task of aiding and rescuing the approximately 140,000 people who chose not to evacuate the area as the storm approached.\u00a0 Debris and flooding made the task extremely difficult and hazardous for those tasked with helping recover from the devastating storm.<\/p>\n

Texas Governor Rick Perry expressed frustration at having to put rescuers’ lives on the line for those that chose to ignore the warnings.\u00a0 Thousands of 911 calls poured in as the storm struck Friday night and into Saturday morning.\u00a0 As of Saturday night the governor’s office said 940 people had been saved. Another 600 were rescued from Louisiana floods.<\/p>\n

More than 3 million people in Texas were without power at the height of the storm.\u00a0 180,000 in Louisiana face the same problem.\u00a0 Power providers in the region say it could take weeks before power is fully restored.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hurricane Ike made landfall over Galveston at 12:10am MDT on Saturday and was over 900 miles across at one point.\u00a0 As the storm moved inland, it continued to produce hurricane condtions for over 100 miles.\u00a0 As damaging as the storm was, it could have been much worse.\u00a0 Authorities had predicted storm surges of 20 to 25 feet but thankfully that did not bear out.\u00a0 The greatest surge occurred at Sabine-Pass near the Texas-Louisiana border and was measured at 15 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the passing of Hurricane Ike, emergency responders in the Houston and Galveston area begin the task of aiding and rescuing the approximately 140,000 people who chose not to evacuate the area as the storm approached.\u00a0 Debris and flooding made the task extremely difficult and hazardous for those tasked with helping recover from the devastating … Continue reading Hurricane Ike strikes and passes; Recovery efforts begin<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}