Introduction. ... is an affiliate of the Houston SPCA and they invited us next door since their facility runs on a huge generator during power outages. had a greater influence on the power outage than the other factors investigated. Downed power lines and tree branches in these areas left at least 50,000 customers without power, and high humidity associated with the system caused an electrical malfunction on one of the lines of the Montréal subway system, stranding commuters. This should provide a general idea of the strength of the winds across the area especially for areas where power outages were not an issue. On September 16 and 17, Governor Strickland took a tour of the heavily damaged areas, particularly in Cincinnati, Columbus and Dayton to survey the damage. Introduction On September 13th, 2008, Hurricane Ike made its landfall in Galveston, Texas and passed across the City of Houston.

The observation at Galveston Scholes Field stopped reporting due to the storm surge that moved into the island on Friday. It did $70.2 billion in economic damage.This figure has been adjusted for inflation.

It was a Cape Verde-type hurricane , as it started as a tropical disturbance off the coast of Africa near the end of August, then tracked south of … In the first three months of 2013, over one million people were reported to be affected by power outages due to extreme events 1.Recent examples include the February 2013 flooding in Macedonia 2, the 2012 Argentine heat-wave 3, 2012 Hurricane Sandy and the resultant widespread flooding in the USA 4 and the Japanese Earthquake in 2011 5. 1.

–Power outages will last weeks to possibly months. Hurricane Sandy hit New Jersey on October 29, 2012.

With 95% of CenterPoint’s 2.6 million customers going dark it would be expected that there would be greater focus on reducing outages during natural disasters. Authorities were reportedly concerned for … The remnants of Ike caused a total of 2.6 million power outages in the state of Ohio, 330,000 of them for over a week. Ike could have weakened enough not to cause hurricane force winds in that part of the storm as it neared the airport. High winds and record rainfall were reported across portions of southern Ontario and Québec from the remnants of Ike.

"Downed trees and limbs from outside of the cooperative right-of-way were the main cause of the outages," Thomason said. Power Outages in Canada Photo: Handout/Getty. "As of 6:30 a.m., Sept. 15, the cooperative had 3,789 members without power.

The remnants of Hurricane Ike brought high winds to Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati area and knocked about power to thousands.

University Hurricane Center for Innovative Technology University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-4003 Tel: 713-743-4278; email: wqiao@uh.edu Abstract: In this study, the influence of … It had been a Category 3 storm.

–Most trees will be snapped or uprooted and power poles downed.

Charley (2004) Punta Gorda, FL Hugo (1989) SullivansIsland, SC Ike (2008) Holguin, Cuba HURRICANE WINDS Category 5 (>156 mph) CATEGORY FIVE • Catastrophic Damage The wind speed was around 80 mph and hurricane Ike was category 1(74-95 mph). Hurricane Ike was the ninth named storm, fifth hurricane and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.

A state of emergency was declared on Monday by Governor Ted Strickland. Hurricane Ike hits Texas causing floods, power outages ... and widespread power outages affecting about 1.3 million customers.