{"id":362,"date":"2008-09-18T15:44:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T20:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2008-10-03T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T20:51:25","slug":"hurricane-ike-storm-surge-in-galveston-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/hurricane-ike-storm-surge-in-galveston-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Ike Storm Surge in Galveston, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a little video of the incredible surf pounding the Galveston seawall as Hurricane Ike was looming in.  The seawall here is 17 feet tall and there is usually quite a bit of beach out there.  Some of those waves crashing in were reaching nearly 30 feet tall!  The noise was deafening.  It was a bit unnerving to realize that certain death loomed only a few feet away.\u00a0 Have you ever seen such angry water?<\/p>\n<p>Every building in that video no longer exists after Ike came through, except the large Flagship Hotel in the distance.  The first building in the video is the historic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balineseroom.net\/\">Balinese Room<\/a>.  It was sad to realize we shot what were probably the last images and video of the place still standing.  It has quite a long and rich history and many big time folks played and spent time there.\u00a0 A 70 year old piece of history, now gone with the wind.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mJbfGUylkR0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mJbfGUylkR0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b&amp;border=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a little video of the incredible surf pounding the Galveston seawall as Hurricane Ike was looming in. The seawall here is 17 feet tall and there is usually quite a bit of beach out there. Some of those waves crashing in were reaching nearly 30 feet tall! The noise was deafening. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-storm-chasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}