For nearly a week the communication infrastructure throughout Galveston County has been down as the result of Hurricane Ike that cut a devastating path beginning at the eastern tip of Galveston Island and continuing northward up the Houston Ship Channel. Slowly electrical and Internet services are being restored throughout the area.
Today was the first day that the Combustible Dust Policy Institute, located in the eye of the hurricane in Santa Fe, Texas, has been able to get back to business when electrical power was restored by the hardworking crews and contractors of Center Point Energy . Luckily the 110 mph winds did not cause any major damage here on Sandy Lane, just plenty of frayed nerves and thankful that our prayers were answered that the storm didn't turn into a Cat 3.
Prior to tracking combustible dust fires and explosions in the manufacturing sector, Google Maps were also utilized to track maritime vessel traffic in the Houston-Texas City-Galveston area. Just thought I'd provide visitors here on this site a link to a birds-eye view of shipping traffic waiting to enter the local ports. Currently the Houston Ship Channel has reopened with restrictions and as soon as all the navigational aids are restored global trade will return back to normal here in this neck of the woods.
Google Map Shipping Traffic
Ike Aftermath Satellite Pictures
Today was the first day that the Combustible Dust Policy Institute, located in the eye of the hurricane in Santa Fe, Texas, has been able to get back to business when electrical power was restored by the hardworking crews and contractors of Center Point Energy . Luckily the 110 mph winds did not cause any major damage here on Sandy Lane, just plenty of frayed nerves and thankful that our prayers were answered that the storm didn't turn into a Cat 3.
Prior to tracking combustible dust fires and explosions in the manufacturing sector, Google Maps were also utilized to track maritime vessel traffic in the Houston-Texas City-Galveston area. Just thought I'd provide visitors here on this site a link to a birds-eye view of shipping traffic waiting to enter the local ports. Currently the Houston Ship Channel has reopened with restrictions and as soon as all the navigational aids are restored global trade will return back to normal here in this neck of the woods.
Google Map Shipping Traffic
Ike Aftermath Satellite Pictures
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3 comments:
John:
Very happy to see you are fine, thought about many times in the past two weeks. Son in Houston and know how bad Ike really was.
Keep up the great work.
Tom Kling
Canton, OH
Tom,
Yes, we were all are very lucky on the Galveston County mainland, on the west side of Galveston Bay with the weak Cat 2. According to todays Houston Chronicle, the majority of winds in Houston were only Tropical Storm winds <79 mph.
Yet over 2 million Center Point customers lost electricity because of Ike's wrath. As of Sept. 21, 2008, 8 a.m. CST, 819,000 (36% of CP customers)are still without power. Thats just the tip of the iceberg as thousand more that aren't Center Point Customers are also without electricity .
Here is a Google Map I'm putting together where I've added satellite view pictures after IKE were you can compare to Google Map satellite before pictures http://is.gd/2VZH
Thanks for the positive feedback and I hope your son weathered the storm okay without much property damage.
Best,
John
How is the power situation now?
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