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Storms line up to slam western Atlantic, southeastern US
Gambar AFP GOES satellite image shows Tropical Depression Gustav (L) and Tropical Storm Hanna (R). A powerful hurricane and two tropical storms on Thursday threaten to wreak more destruction in the waterlogged Caribbean and southeastern United States in the coming days.
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MIAMI (AFP) - A powerful hurricane and two tropical storms on Thursday threaten to wreak more destruction in the waterlogged Caribbean and southeastern United States in the coming days.
Tropical Storm Hanna closed in on the southeastern United States after it hammered Haiti, triggering floods and landslides that killed at least 61 people and leaving thousands homeless, local authorities said.
Hanna could strengthen and gain hurricane status on Friday before reaching the US coastline, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. Hanna "has been an erratic storm. It's already done a lot of flooding (and) we are expecting it to strengthen slightly" before Friday, when it is due to pound the US states of North or South Carolina, Hurricane Center forecaster John Cangialosi told AFP.
At 1800 GMT the center of Hanna was about 330 kilometers (205 miles) east of Nassau in the Bahamas, moving toward the northwest at about 22 kilometers (14 miles) per hour.
Forecasters expected Hanna to turn north late Friday. On this path, "Hanna will pass just east of the central and northwestern Bahamas (Thursday) ... and will be near the southeast coast of the United States by late Friday."
The storm packed maximum sustained winds of near 100 kilometers (65 miles) an hour, with higher gusts. Meanwhile monster Hurricane Ike turned into an "extremely dangerous" Category Four storm on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale as it moved over the western Atlantic Ocean.
At 1500 GMT Hurricane Ike churned in the Atlantic some 845 kilometers (525 miles) northeast of the Leeward islands, moving in a west-northwest direction at around 26 kilometers (16 miles) an hour. It packed winds of near 220 kilometers (140 miles) an hour, with higher gusts.
"It is too early to determine what land areas might be affected by Ike," the Hurricane Center said. Cangialosi described it as "absolutely a powerful hurricane," adding that "there is no immediate threat" to land. He said it was too soon to tell if it would track toward the US eastern coastline, or westward toward the Gulf of Mexico.
The margin of error in forecasting a storm's behavior rises considerably beyond the third day, said Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen. Ike, however, "will affect the Bahamas," and forecasters "expect it to remain a major hurricane," Feltgen said.
A third system, Tropical Storm Josephine, was reported in the eastern Atlantic some 840 kilometers (520 miles) west of the southmost Cape Verde Islands, moving in a west-northwest direction at around 17 kilometers (10 miles) an hour.
"Little change in strength is forecast during the next couple of days," the Hurricane Center said.
The storms follow Hurricane Gustav, which ripped through the Caribbean then slammed the US Gulf Coast, and Tropical Storm Fay, which also pounded several Caribbean islands and made landfall in Florida four times, dumping record amounts of rain. Still, this is not an unusually busy storm season.
"We had five storms at one time in 1995 and 1971," said Feltman.
As meteorologists monitored Hanna and Ike, vast flooding in Haiti triggered by Hanna revived memories of lethal Tropical Storm Jeanne in September 2004, when about 3,000 people were killed, mostly in the northern city of Gonaives.
The UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) on Wednesday carried out dramatic helicopter rescues to save those stranded by the high water.
Mountainous Haiti is especially prone to flooding and landslides due to widespread deforestation on its section of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Dominican Republic.
Tens of thousands of people in both countries were forced to take refuge from driving rain and flooding, though there were no casualties reported in the Dominican Republic.
Hanna struck Haiti one week after it was hit by Hurricane Gustav, which killed 77 people. Two weeks ago, Tropical Storm Fay sparked flooding in Haiti that left about 40 people dead. |
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 | DITIUP ANGIN: Sebuah bot nelayan sepanjang 11 meter terdampar di Highway 90 dekat Ft. Pike, Louisiana, kelmarin, selepas wilayah Amerika itu dilanda Taufan Gustav.
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taufan ike blasts cuba & haiti : update tempur texas!!
Killer Ike blasts Bahamas, lashes Cuba
CAMAGUEY, Cuba - Hurricane Ike roared across low-lying islands and bore down on Cuba, destroying homes, sweeping away boats and bringing more rain to waterlogged communities in Haiti, where it killed 48 more people.
This September 7, 2008 NASA GOES satellite image shows Hurricane
Ike seen at 1610 GMT. Barely a week after Hurricane Gustav devastated
western Cuba, the island was battening down the hatches again Sunday
for another killer storm, with more than half a million people evacuating
Cuba's northeast coast, officials said
Slamming into the southern Bahamas, Ike bore down on Cuba on a path that could hit Havana head-on, and hundreds of thousands evacuated to shelters or higher ground. To the north, residents of the Florida Keys fled up a narrow highway, fearful that the "extremely dangerous" hurricane could hit them Tuesday.
At least 48 people died as Ike's winds and rain swept Haiti, raising the nation's death toll from four tropical storms in less than a month to 306. A Dominican man was crushed by a falling tree. It was too early to know of deaths on other islands where the most powerful winds were still blowing.
The center of the hurricane hit the Bahamas' Great Inagua island, where screaming winds threatened to peel plywood from the windows of a church sheltering about 50 people, shelter manager Janice McKinney said.
"All we can do is hunker down and pray," reserve police officer Henry Nixon said from different Great Inagua shelter, where about 85 people huddled around a radio.
Great Inagua has about 1,000 people and about 50,000 West Indian flamingos — the world's largest breeding colony. Both populations sought safety from the winds and driving rain — the pink flamingos gathered in mangrove thickets. Biologists worried that their unique habitat would be destroyed by the storm.
"There's a possibility that the habitat can't really be replaced, and that they can't find an equivalent spot," said Greg Butcher, bird conservation director for the National Audubon Society. "You might have a significant drop in the number of flamingos."
At 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT), Ike's eye moved west from Great Inagua Island in the southeastern Bahamas and weakened slightly to a Category 3 hurricane with top winds of 120 mph (195 kph). It was moving westward at 14 mph (22 kph), about 30 miles off Cuba's northern coast, and was about 75 miles (120 kms) from Guantanamo.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center predicted Ike's eye would strike somewhere along Cuba's northern coast Sunday night and possibly hit Havana, the capital of 2 million people with many vulnerable old buildings, by Monday night.
Cuba's government said more than 224,000 people were being evacuated in the central-eastern province of Camaguey alone. Foreign tourists were pulled out from vulnerable beach resorts, workers rushed to protect coffee plants and other crops, and plans were under way to distribute food and cooking-oil to disaster areas.
"There's no fear here, but one has to prepared. It could hit us pretty hard," said Ramon Olivera, gassing up his motorcycle in Camaguey, where municipal workers were boarding up banks and restaurants and teams of employees covered sheet-glass windows with corrugated metal.
The first islands to bear Ike's fury were the Turks and Caicos, which have little natural protection from storm surges. This one was expected to be up to 18 feet (5.5 meters).
The British territory's Premier Michael Misick said more than 80 percent of the homes were damaged on two islands and people who didn't take refuge in shelters were cowering in closets and under stairwells, "just holding on for life."
"They got hit really, really bad," Misick said. "A lot of people have lost their houses, and we will have to see what we can do to accommodate them."
In South Caicos, a fishing-dependent island of 1,500 people, most homes were damaged, the airport was under water, power will be out for weeks, and at least 20 boats were swept away despite being towed ashore for safety, Minister of Natural Resources Piper Hanchell said.
Tourism chairman Wayne Garland was text-messaging with two people in Grand Turk during the height of the storm. "They were literally in their bathroom because their roofs were gone," he said. "Eventually they were rescued."
Twenty-one of the Haitian victims, still unclaimed, were stacked in a mud-caked pile in a funeral home in the coastal Haitian town of Cabaret — including two pregnant women, one with a dead girl still in her arms. More than a dozen children were in the pile. The rest of the known deaths were all in the Cabaret area, civil protection director Marie-Alta Jean Baptiste said.
Many more Haitian lives were threatened as Ike's downpours topped flooding from Hanna, Gustav and Fay. Officials said they would have to open an overflowing dam, inundating more homes and possibly causing lasting damage to key farming areas. The Mirebalais bridge collapsed in the floods, cutting off the last land route into Gonaives, where half the homes were already under water when Ike hit. The latest rains made it even more difficult for aid groups to reach desperate residents.
Heavy rains also pelted the Dominican Republic, Haiti's neighbor on the island of Hispaniola, where about 4,000 people were evacuated from northern coastal towns. One man was crushed by a falling tree.
Strong gusts and steady rains fell at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in southeast Cuba, where all ferries were secured and beaches were off limits. The military said cells containing the detainees — about 255 men suspected of links to the Taliban and al-Qaida — are hurricane-proof. But the base was spared the strongest winds.
Where Ike goes after Cuba was hard to predict, leaving millions from Florida to Mexico worrying where it will strike.
"These storms have a mind of their own," Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said as tourists and then residents evacuated the Keys along a narrow highway.
In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin prepared for the possibility of more havoc only days after an historic, life-saving evacuation of more than 2 million people from Hurricane Gustav.
"Our citizens are weary and they're tired and they have spent a lot of money evacuating," Nagin worried. "It will be very difficult to move the kind of numbers out of this city that we moved during Gustav."
my god!!! wth... lagi satu woooo 
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Ike ancam Carribean
BENCANA: Mangsa Taufan Hanna meninggalkan kediaman mereka di Gonaives, Haiti kelmarin akibat banjir dibawa bencana alam itu yang turut mengorbankan 500 orang penduduk.
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Taufan dijangka melanda selepas ribut Hanna
CARRIBEAN: Langkah kecemasan diambil di kepulauan Carribean ketika Taufan Ike dijangka melanda, beberapa hari selepas Ribut Tropika Hanna melepasi wilayah itu.
Ike mengumpul semula kekuatan selepas lemah dengan angin 215 kilometer sejam ketika menghampiri kepulauan Turks and Caicos dan Bahamas.
Cuba turut mengeluarkan amaran taufan di wilayahnya di timur. Sementara itu, pegawai di Haiti berkata, sekurang-kurangnya 500 orang mati apabila banjir yang disebabkan Hanna surut.
Taufan Ike mengumpul kekuatan kepada Kategori Empat pada skala Saffir Simpson � 'taufan amat bahaya' � selepas agak lemah awal kelmarin, kata Pusat taufan Kebangsaan (NHC) beribu pejabat di Florida.
NHC berkata, ribut itu melepasi berhampiran atau di kepulauan Turks and Caicos dan tenggara Bahamas lewat kelmarin atau awal semalam.
Perdana Menteri Turks and Caicos, Michael Misick memberi amaran kepada penduduk di kawasan rendah ketika ribut itu semakin mendekat.
"Ike adalah taufan amat bahaya dan kini jelas ia akan melanda Turks and Caicos lewat hari ini.
"Penduduk paling berisiko yang tinggal di kawasan rendah di persisir pantai perlu merancang untuk berpindah segera ke pusat perlindungan atau lokasi lebih selamat dengan keluarga dan rakan di tempat tinggi.
"Mereka yang mahu kekal di kawasan rendah meletakkan nyawa sendiri dan orang lain dalam risiko," katanya.
Pihak berkuasa menutup lapangan terbang di Providenciales tengah hari kelmarin. Ramalan NHC menyatakan Ike sepatutnya melanda pantai timur di utara Cuba lewat kelmarin atau awal hari ini.
Jika ia kekal pada laluan, Ike akan melanda kepulauan itu dari timur ke barat dan meletakkan bangunan kolonial di ibu negara Cuba, Havana, dalam risiko.
NHS berkata, ribut setinggi 3.6 meter dijangka berlaku bersama ombak besar dan bahaya serta hujan lebat.
Pusat itu meramalkan taufan itu terus ke utara Haiti yang berkongsi kepulauan Hispaniola dengan Republik Dominica. - Agensi |
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Dasyat jugak ribut nih  |
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Ombak besar petanda Taufan Ike di Cuba
HAVANA: Ombak setinggi bangunan lima tingkat melanda kawasan pantai Baracoa di timur Cuba, kelmarin, menandakan ketibaan Taufan Ike ke negara itu, menyebabkan ratusan ribu penduduk dipindahkan.
Walaupun tahap bahaya taufan itu kelmarin menurun daripada Kategori Empat kepada Tiga, ia masih dianggap serius.
Setakat ini, Taufan Ike yang melanda kepulauan Carribean meragut 61 nyawa di Haiti serta memusnahkan kebanyakan rumah di Grand Turk dan Bahamas, selain menyebabkan hujan lebat di kawasan dilaluinya.
Kelmarin, penduduk Haiti juga terpaksa berlindung di atas bumbung rumah berikutan banjir kali kedua dalam tempoh seminggu yang dibawa Taufan Ike dan Taufan Hannah seminggu sebelumnya.
Saksi di Cabaret, utara ibu negara Port-au-Prince, berkata banjir memecahkan tembok dan mencecah paras dada sebelum surut pagi kelmarin dan meninggalkan segala-galanya terbenam dalam lumpur.
Di rumah pengebumian Always Funeral Home, 21 mayat dipenuhi lumpur yang tidak dituntut dikumpulkan dalam sebuah bilik kecil, dua daripadanya hamil dengan seorang masih memegang erat anak perempuan kecilnya di dada.
“Kami berlindung dalam sebuah bilik dan menunggu di sana semalaman sambil berdoa,” kata Sister Marie Denise, yang terperangkap dalam air separas pinggang di rumah yang dikongsinya bersama empat rahib lain. Mereka menyelamatkan diri ke sekolah berhampiran selepas air surut.
“Kami masih belum mengetahui nasib semua pelajar kami,” katanya.
Hujan dibawa taufan Ike berhenti menjelang lewat tengah hari, namun pihak berkuasa bimbang banjir akan berterusan ketika air yang berkumpul di kawasan pergunungan mengalir ke bawah.
Kebanyakan kawasan terbabit pula tidak dapat dimasuki trak pengaman Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu kerana paras air semakin naik dan arus deras. - AP |
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Taufan Ike akan gempur Texas
PETANDA RIBUT: Seorang wanita dilihat di Florida Keys ketika suasana angin kencang ketika Taufan Ike dilaporkan menuju Teluk Mexico dan Texas selepas melanda Cuba.
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HAVANA: Taufan Ike menggempur kawasan padat penduduk di selatan Cuba merosakkan bangunan lama di ibu negara itu, memusnahkan kediaman awam, memaksa 1.2 juta penduduk dipindahkan selain menjadi punca kematian empat orang.
Taufan itu juga dijangka menuju ke Texas dan utara Mexico hujung minggu ini. Sekurang-kurangnya 79 orang terbunuh kerana taufan itu di Caribbean.
Selepas melanda Bahamas dan memburukkan keadaan banjir di Haiti menyebabkan 331 orang maut, Ike tiba di timur Cuba sebagai taufan kategori 3 sebelum kekuatannya menurun, kelmarin.
Bagaimanapun, Ike membina semula kekuatan semalam ketika tiba di barat daya Havana dan dijangka mula menghala ke Teluk Mexico mulai tengah hari.
Peramal cuaca menjangka kekuatannya meningkat sebelum melanda Texas atau utara Mexico pada Sabtu dan Ahad ini.
"Apabila ia keluar dari Cuba, Ike berpotensi menjadi lebih kuat," kata Felix Garcia, pegawai di Pusat Taufan Kebangsaan di Miami.
Pada 11 pagi waktu tempatan, Ike berada 90 kilometer di barat daya Havana dan bergerak ke barat-barat laut pada kelajuan 21 kilometer sejam.
Ike mempunyai kelajuan maksimum 130 kilometer sejam. - AP |
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Taufan Ike badai Cuba, 4 terbunuh
| SEORANG penduduk mengayuh basikal berhampiran kawasan pantai di Key West, Florida, semalam meredah Ribut Ike, yang sedang membadai negeri di timur AS itu.
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HAVANA 9 Sept. - Taufan Ike mulai membadai Cuba semalam, menyebabkan ombak besar dan hujan lebat.
Setakat ini tiga lelaki dan seorang wanita terbunuh apabila taufan ini memusnahkan kawasan perumahan dan perhubungan di Cuba, selepas taufan itu mengorbankan 61 orang semasa membadai Haiti.
Pegawai menjangkakan taufan besar itu akan melalui Havana dan barat Cuba hari ini.
Jabatan Pertahanan Awam telah menggerakkan operasi besar-besaran pemindahan kira-kira sejuta penduduk ke dalam bangunan yang lebih selamat serta jauh daripada persisiran pantai, termasuk kira-kira 170,000 penduduk di beberapa kawasan berisiko di Havana.
"Kawasan kediaman musnah teruk dan kami sedang menilai kerugian yang dialami sektor perladangan," kata Kolonel Jose Betancourt dari Jabatan Pertahanan Awam.
Ike turut menyebabkan pembentukan ombak setinggi tujuh meter di perairan timur Cuba lewat kelmarin dan memusnahkan puluhan rumah yang terletak di tepi pantai di wilayah Camaguey.
Kekuatan Ike berkurangan menjadi ribut Kategori Satu mengikut skala Saffir-Simpson selepas ia membadai Cuba dengan tiupan angin selaju 130 kilometer sejam tetapi diramalkan bertambah kuat apabila melalui Teluk Mexico dan menuju ke Texas.
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aku baru dengar yg bush isyhtihar texas in darurat.. dan ramai penduduk kat sana kena pindah hari ni.. |
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kesian kt rakyat AS sampai 3 taufan(Gustav,Hanna,Ike) melanda dlm masa yg singkat.memang betul kata mod inilah sebahagian impak pemanasan global.ada tgk dlm dokumentari kt TV1 betapa dahsyatnya kalau berlaku taufan atau gempa bumi dari bawah permukaan laut/dasar laut.pergerakannya memang pantas dan arus yg dibawa mmg kuat,kalau x ditangani dengan baik boleh mengakibatkan kemalangan jiwa yg lebih teruk lagi. |
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Taufan Ike kumpul kekuatan di Teluk Mexico
HAVANA: Taufan Ike mengumpul kekuatan di Teluk Mexico dalam perjalanannya ke pantai Texas selepas melanda Cuba dan menumbangkan beberapa bangunan lama di ibu kota negara itu kelmarin.
Pakar ramalan cuaca berkata, ribut Kategori Satu itu semakin kuat selepas meninggalkan Cuba dan dijangka menjadi ribut Kategori Tiga sebelum melanda Texas, utara Mexico atau barat Louisiana.
Ike sudah pun mengorbankan sekurang-kurangnya 80 orang di Carribean, dan Texas meletakkan 7,500 anggota Pengawal Kebangsaan dalam keadaan bersiap sedia dan menggesa penduduk persisiran pantai menyimpan bekalan makanan.
Agensi Pengurusan Kecemasan Persekutuan Amerika Syarikat masih tidak memutuskan waktu perpindahan di sepanjang pantai.
Stesen televisyen Cuba berkata, kira-kira 2.6 juta penduduk - hampir satu pertiga daripada penduduk kepulauan itu - mendapatkan perlindungan akibat Ike, yang meragut empat nyawa dan memusnahkan beratus-ratus rumah ketika melanda seluruh negara itu.
Ketika meninggalkan Cuba, Taufan Ike menyebabkan kemusnahan kepada bandar seperti Los Palacios, yang sudah teruk dilanda Taufan Gustav Kategori Empat pada 30 Ogos lalu.
Di kawasan miskin di sepanjang landasan kereta tapi, gabungan Ike dan Gustav menyebabkan hampir dua pertiga daripada rumah kayu kehilangan bumbung atau ranap sama sekali.
"Bencana pertama ada juga meninggalkan sesuatu untuk saya tetapi yang ini langsung tidak meninggalkan apa-apa. Saya tidak ada apa-apa untuk dijadikan tempat tidur," kata Olga Atiaga, suri rumah berusia 53 tahun.
Gustav menerbangkan bumbung dan dinding rumahnya manakala Ike menerbangkan tilam dan merosakkan sinki dapur. � AP |
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Penduduk lari dari Texas
KESESAKAN berlaku di Lebuh Raya 45 apabila
penduduk bergegas meninggalkan Houston
ketika Taufan Ike semakin menghampiri Teluk
Texas semalam.
Taufan Ike dijangka bawa angin 178 kilometer sejam hari ini
TEXAS: Ratusan ribu penduduk menjauhkan diri dari kawasan tepi pantai yang menjadi laluan Taufan Ike, kelmarin ketika bencana alam itu dijangka melanda Pantai Teluk Texas dan mengancam kawasan sekitar Houston.
Pusat Taufan Kebangsaan berkata Taufan Ike berada pada tahap bahaya Kategori Dua iaitu dengan kelajuan angin 160 kilometer sejam dijangka tiba di tepi pantai itu selewat-lewatnya hari ini dan ia berpotensi bertukar menjadi Kategori Tiga dengan angin berkelajuan lebih 178 kilometer sejam.
Ribut itu kini mengancam Houston iaitu bandar keempat paling ramai penduduk di Amerika Syarikat selain pusat industri minyak.
Pegawai berkuasa bagaimanapun meminta penduduk berlindung dalam bangunan.
"Mereka lebih selamat dan dalam keadaan lebih baik jika mereka menetap di suatu tempat," kata Datuk Bandar Houston, Bill White.
Ribut itu tiba 10 hari selepas Taufan Gustav memaksa dua juta penduduk meninggalkan pantai Louisiana dan mengancam New Orleans yang terjejas akibat Taufan Katrina pada 2005.
"Mesej terpenting yang dapat saya sampaikan adalah jangan memandang ringan mengenai ribut ini, ia bukan ribut yang boleh dibuat main," kata Setiausaha Keselamatan Dalam Negeri, Michael Chertoff di Washington. |
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Reply #79 dexa's post
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tu ler pasal... baru 2 taon kat N.O depa nak pick up life balik.... kena gustav dan hanna.. pastu ike lak...aku bajet sebelum ujung taon ni... ada 2-3 lagi tofan serang usa nih... ko tengok ler nanti... cissssss |
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Texans endure sleepless night as Ike roars ashore
Strong waves crash around coastal houses in Galveston, Texas
September 12, 2008. Hurricane Ike pounded the Texas coast on
Saturday, threatening to devastate towns along the Gulf of Mexico,
shutting essential oil refineries and menacing Houston, the fourth-largest U.S.
GALVESTON, Texas - A massive Hurricane Ike menaced the darkened Texas coast early Saturday, ensuring a sleepless night for thousands who huddled and waited to find out if a gamble to face the storm head-on could cost them their lives.
Before the eye even crossed land, the first bands were punishing. Wind-whipped waves surged over a 17-foot seawall in Galveston and filled streets with waist-high water. Homes were flooding, utilities said more than 4.5 million people were without power and there was fear hurricane-force winds could shatter the windows of the sparkling skyscrapers that define the skyline of America's fourth-largest city.
Rescue crews worried daybreak would bring a nightmare scenario: Thousands who defied evacuation orders and became trapped in submerged communities. Already, dozens of calls had come into 911 dispatchers begging for help.
"We don't know what we are going to find. We hope we will find the people who are left here alive and well," Galveston Mayor Lynda Ann Thomas said. "We are keeping our fingers crossed all the people who stayed on Galveston Island managed to survive this."
The storm began battering the coast Friday afternoon, and the eye was likely to cross early Saturday morning. As of 1 a.m. EDT, Ike was centered about 35 miles southeast of Galveston, moving at 12 mph. It was close to a Category 3 storm with winds of 110 mph. Forecasters predicted it would come ashore somewhere near Galveston and pass almost directly over Houston.
Though 1 million people fled coastal communities near where the storm was projected to make landfall, authorities in three counties alone said roughly 90,000 stayed behind. As the front of the storm moved into Galveston, fire crews rescued nearly 300 people who changed their minds and fled at the last minute, wading through floodwaters carrying clothes and other posessions.
"The unfortunate truth is we're going to have to go in tomorrow and put our people in the tough situation to save people who did not choose wisely. We'll probably do the largest search and rescue operation that's ever been conducted in the state of Texas," said Andrew Barlow, spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry. |
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taufan ike menjejaskan 1/5 kawasan pengeluaran minyak AS. |
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Taufan Ike badai pantai timur Texas
HOUSTAN,Amerika Syarikat (AS) 13 Sept. - Taufan Ike mula membadai kawasan pantai berhampiran Houston semalam dan memberi ancaman kepada bandar keempat terbesar di AS itu serta kawasan sepanjang Teluk Mexico.Ike yang kini menjejaskan satu perlima daripada kawasan pengeluaran minyak AS, menghampiri Pulau Galveston dengan kekuatan pada Kategori 2 sekitar pukul 2.10 pagi (3.10 petang ini waktu Malaysia) dengan kelajuan angin 175 kilometer sejam.
Ia kini dikatakan hanya perlu mencapai tambahan kekuatan satu kilometer sejam lagi untuk berada pada Kategori 3, lapor Pusat Taufan Kebangsaan.
Ike dijangka menjadi taufan terburuk yang pernah melanda Texas dalam tempoh hampir 50 tahun dan merupakan taufan terbesar yang melanda bandar AS sejak Taufan Katrina membadai bandar New Orleans pada akhir 2005.
Ia menyebabkan ombak setinggi enam meter yang menghempas benteng setinggi lima meter yang dibina untuk melindungi Houston daripada bencana ribut atau taufan selepas bandar itu dibadai taufan pada 1900 yang menyaksikan sekurang-kurangnya 8,000 penduduk terbunuh.
Ancaman Ike menyebabkan pihak berkuasa menutup 17 loji pembersih minyak selain menyaksikan sebuah dermaga di Galveston musnah.
Pusat Perkhidmatan Cuaca Kebangsaan menjangkakan taufan tersebut boleh menenggelamkan lebih 100,000 dan menyebabkan banjir di kawasan berhampiran pantai sepanjang 160 kilometer itu.
Lebih sejuta penduduk Texas diarahkan berpindah secara mandatori berikutan kebimbangan ancaman Taufan Ike tersebut.
-Reuters
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Operasi penapis minyak dihenti akibat ombak setinggi 6 meter
HOUSTON: Taufan Ike melanda pantai Texas semalam dan mengancam memusnahkan bandar sepanjang Teluk Mexico, menghentikan operasi kilang penapis minyak dan mengucar kacirkan Houston iaitu bandar keempat terbesar di Amerika.
Pusat Taufan Kebangsaan berkata taufan yang bersaiz sebenar Texas itu mungkin ribut terburuk melanda Amerika sejak 50 tahun lalu.
Ike tiba di pantai bandar kepulauan Galveston pada jam 2.10 pagi dengan tahap taufan Kategori 2 iaitu angin berkelajuan 175 kilometer sejam.
Ribut itu membawa air laut setinggi enam meter dan menyebabkan ombak besar menghempas benteng laut setinggi lima meter yang dibina untuk melindungi bandar itu selepas taufan pada 1900 menyebabkan kematian 8,000 penduduk.
Ribut itu menyebabkan 17 kilang penapis minyak ditutup dan membahayakan kapal dagang di laut serta memusnahkan jeti di Galveston.
Agensi Perkhidmatan Cuaca Kebangsaan memberi amaran bahawa penduduk di tepi pantai akan 'berhadapan dengan kemungkinan maut' dan pegawai berkata ribut itu mampu mencetuskan banjir yang akan menenggelamkan 100,000 rumah serta membawa ombak besar sejauh 160 kilometer dari pantai Amerika.
"Negara kita berhadapan dengan taufan yang membawa bencana," kata Setiausaha Keselamatan Dalam Negeri,Michael Chertoff.
Lebih daripada sejuta penduduk Texas menuruti perintah pemindahan dan menjauhi kawasan pantai tetapi pihak berkuasa khuatir masih ada pihak yang tinggal didalam rumah.
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Texas rugi AS$18b - Akibat Taufan Ike
BANJIR melanda Bandar Galveston di Texas, kelmarin.
LOS ANGELES – Anggota-anggota penyelamat menaiki trak, bot dan helikopter bertungkus lumus melakukan kerja menyelamat sepanjang perairan negeri Texas selepas Taufan Ike melanda Amerika Syarikat (AS), lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.
Taufan itu menyebabkan bekalan elektrik terputus dan ramai penduduk Texas terperangkap dalam banjir besar.
Pihak berkuasa negeri memulakan kerja mencari mereka yang terselamat selepas taufan Kategori 2 dengan angin kencang selaju 176 kilometer itu melanda pada awal pagi waktu AS.
SEBUAH rumah dikelilingi air banjir di
Bandar Galveston, Texas kelmarin.
Kawasan pertama dilanda Ike ialah Bandar Galveston, Texas dan setakat ini anggaran kemusnahan akibat angin kencang dan hujan lebat yang dibawa taufan itu mencecah AS$18 bilion (RM62.1 bilion)
Banyak bangunan musnah dan kebakaran berlaku di sekitar bandar itu selepas air naik sedalam 4.5 meter menyebabkan usaha menyelamat tergendala.
“Ike umpama gelombang besar kemusnahan. Angin, api dan ketiadaan bekalan elektrik dapat dilihat dari jauh seperti filem bencana alam Hollywood tetapi ia sesuatu yang benar-benar berlaku,” kata seorang penjejak taufan, Mark Sudduth.
Selepas melanda Bandar Galvaston, ribut itu bergerak ke Houston dan melimpahkan air banjir di lebuh-lebuh raya, menumbangkan pokok-pokok dan memecahkan hampir setiap tingkap dari 30 tingkat menara JP Morgan yang setinggi 75 tingkat.
SEJUMLAH bot tersadai
di sebuah lebuh raya di
Bandar Galveston,
Texas kelmarin.
“Saya berasa seperti kami berada di tapak kemusnahan Menara World Trade Centre (WTC), New York selepas serangan 11 September,” kata Mauricio Diaz, 36.
Lebih 1,500 orang daripada 140,000 mangsa yang terperangkap akibat banjir berjaya diselamatkan sejak taufan itu melanda daratan Texas.
Menjelang lewat tengah hari, pegawai-pegawai berkata, empat orang disahkan terbunuh, dua daripada mereka dihempap pokok tumbang.
Kelmarin, Presiden George W. Bush mengisytiharkan Texas sebagai kawasan bencana walaupun kesan kemusnahan akibat Ike tidak seteruk yang dijangkakan.
Taufan itu yang semakin lemah ketika melalui negeri Arkansas menyebabkan kira-kira 4.5 juta orang terpaksa bergelap. – Agensi
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tak sangka sampai begitu sekali rupa galveston -
kawan saya ada di sana - banyak gambar2 dari galveston saya
dah tengok - very nice city - kat tepi laut -- kalau nak camping
kat sana memang best juga -- tapi bila tengok apa yang jadi
lepas ike... rasa simpati pada penduduk sana - |
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dah la berlaku krisis ekonomi kt AS
skang ni kena pulih balik kawasan2 yg dilanda taufan ike
banyak pakai duit ni
mesti bush tgh pening kepala..... |
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Post time 5-9-2008 01:55 PM
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