Weather
Hurricane Ike Reveals Mystery Civil War Ship
The last time this mystery ship was visible was after Hurricane Ivan hit the Alabama Gulf Coast on September 16, 2004. At that time a much smaller portion of the ship was visible above the sand.
Soon after Ivan revealed this historic treasure, the shifting sand covered the relic again. Hurricane Ike’s waves, this past week, pounded the beaches of the northern Gulf Coast and once again the mystery ship was revealed.
This time however, much more of the ship was uncovered. This is the most visible the ship has ever been.
The roughly 150 foot long, 30 foot wide wooden ship appears to have been powered by steam. One of the artifacts within the perimeter of the ship’s hull appears to be an old water pump.
A long pipe runs down the center of the ship, with smaller pipes found near by.
While no one knows for sure what ship this is, historians speculate that the ship was a blockade-runner from the civil war.
Top Ten Reasons why Hurricane Season is like Christmas
Number Ten:
Decorating the house (with plywood).
Decorating the house (with plywood).
Number Nine:
Dragging out boxes that haven’t been used since last season.
Dragging out boxes that haven’t been used since last season.
Number Eight:
Last minute shopping in crowded stores.
Last minute shopping in crowded stores.
Number Seven:
Regular TV shows pre-empted for ‘Specials’.
Regular TV shows pre-empted for ‘Specials’.
Number Six:
Family coming to stay with you.
Family coming to stay with you.
Number Five:
Family and friends from out of state calling you.
Family and friends from out of state calling you.
Number Four:
Buying food you don’t normally buy . . . and in large quantities.
Buying food you don’t normally buy . . . and in large quantities.
Number Three:
Days off from work.
Days off from work.
Number Two:
Candles.
Candles.
And the Number One reason Hurricane Season is like Christmas:
At some point you’re probably going to have a tree in your house!
At some point you’re probably going to have a tree in your house!
Thanks Sandra
Hurricane Education: What I’ve learned during our last hurricane . . .
1. Coffee and frozen pizzas can be made on a BBQ grill.
2. No matter how many times you flick the switch, lights don’t work without electricity.
3. My car gets 23.21675 miles per gallon, EXACTLY (you can ask the people in line who helped me push it).
4. Kids can survive 4 days or longer without a video game controller in their hand.
5. Cats are even more irritating without power.
6. He who has the biggest generator wins.
7. Women can actually survive without doing their hair- you just wish they weren’t around you.
8. A new method of non-lethal torture- showers without hot water.
9. There are a lot more stars in the sky than most people thought.
10. TV is an addiction and the withdrawal symptoms are painful.
11. A 7 lb bag of ice will chill 6-12 oz Budweiser’s to a drinkable temperature in 11 minutes, and still keep a 14 lb. turkey frozen for 8 more hours.
12. There are a lot of dang trees around here.
13. Flood plane drawings on some mortgage documents were seriously wrong.
14. Aluminum siding, while aesthetically pleasing, is definitely not required.
15. Crickets can increase their volume to overcome the sound of 14 generators.
16. People will get into a line that has already formed without having any idea what the line is for.
17. When required, a Lincoln Continental will float, doesn’t steer well but floats just the same.
18. Tele-marketers function no matter what the weather is doing.
19. Cell phones work when land lines are down, but only as long as the battery remains charged.
20. 27 of your neighbors are fed from a different transformer than you, and they are quick to point that out!
21. Hampers were not made to contain such a volume.
22. If my store sold only ice, chainsaws, gas and generators… I’d be rich.
23. Price of a can of soup rises 200 percent in a storm.
24. Your water front property can quickly become someone else’s fishing hole.
25. Tree service companies are under appreciated.
26. I learned what happens when you make fun of another states’ blackout.
27. MATH 101: 30 days in a month, minus 6 days without power equals 30 percent higher electric bill ?????
28. Drywall is a compound word, take away the “dry” part and it’s worthless.
29. I can walk a lot farther than I thought.
Thanks Sandra
Flooding in the St. Louis area
My son just sent me these pictures of some flooding last weekend in the aftermath of heavy rains from Tropical Storm Ike.
These pictures were taken in Florissant MO, a suburb of St. Louis. This area NEVER floods. That just shows you how much rain we got in such a short period of time. Of course it is nothing compared to the damage in Texas.
Fish caught in fence
Fish remain stuck in a fence as flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike recede, in West Orange, Texas, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008.
Thousands of fish are seen on the shoulder of a road as flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike recede, in Orange, Texas, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008.
Last house standing
It stands alone as if protected by divine intervention.
While its neighbors – as far as the eye can see – were ripped from their foundations and obliterated, this house in Gilchrist Texas amazingly escaped the force of a brute called Ike.
