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WEATHER: Hurricane conditions expected, thunderstorms could produce tornadoes, Highs: 80s, Lows: 70s/2A
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
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Surging ashore
INSIDE
Surge could subside beforerain accumulates: 4A Those venturing out aftercurfew could be arrested: 7A Coast Guard helicoptercrews rescue dozens of Boli-var Peninsula residentstrapped by rising water: 8A Cafe in evacuation zonestill has hot coffee: 8A $1 trillion in insured prop-
erty is in Ikes path: 6B
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Flooding fears rise as Ike promises immense water push
By COLIN GUY, JANE
MCBRIDE and JULIE SHEHANE
THE ENTERPRISE
BEAUMONT Kris Binagia,57, child-care director at the
Westminster PresbyterianChurch, spent much of Fridaysitting on the church steps.
Binagia, a Nederland resident,planned to ride out HurricaneIke on the third floor of the brickstructure in Beaumont.
Her partner, lab tech RonnieBroussard, 53, and sister, child-care worker Robin Hebert, 50,
would do the same.
We figured this church is 125years old, said Binagia, addingthat it only lost one window dur-ing Hurricane Rita.
The three were not alone. The
STAYING, page 5A
Ready for ride in Southeast Texas
Evacuees escape Ike ... not anxietyBy RYAN MYERS and
CHRISTINE RAPPLEYE
THE ENTERPRISE
PORT ARTHUR With a 20- to24-foot storm surge predicted forPort Arthur, the question was notif Hurricane Ike would best thecitys seawall, but how badly.
Thats worst-case scenario,Phil Kelley, an official with thearea drainage district, said of thestorm-surge forecast. Thats 4 to
8 feet over the seawall.By comparison, when Hurri-cane Rita hammered SoutheastTexas three years ago, the seawall
was left without so much as ahigh-water mark.
At 1 foot above sea level and
SURGE, page 4A
Its 16-foot seawall vs.20- to 24-foot surge
By KYLE PEVETO, JANE
MCBRIDE and JULIE SHEHANE
THE ENTERPRISE
TYLER Sitting in a sheltermore than 200 miles from homeFriday afternoon, Terrance Reese,
17, relied on cell phone calls fromhis Beaumont friends for news ofHurricane Ikes landfall.
No televisions at his Tyler shelterwere tuned to the news, so Reeseand his family nervously asked oth-ers about the storm.
When Jefferson County officials
declared a mandatory evacuationThursday, his mother, RachealHampton, 45, packed up 18 familymembers and headed for The Sal-vation Army shelter where theystayed during Hurricane Rita.
If its mandatory, its mandato-ry, the Beaumont entrepreneursaid. If its mandatory for us toleave, I cant put my kids in that
jam.
The family feels comfortable with the shelter at The Center of
EVACUEES, page 5A
Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise
The wind begin to pick up as Miya McCollin waits to evacuate to Beaumont
from the Port Arthur Civic Center on Friday.
A view
from the
top of the
Intra-
coastal
Canal
Bridge on
Texas 87to Sabine
Pass
shows
water over
the road as
Hurricane
Ike getscloser to
the coast.
Dave Ryan/The Enterprise
By SARAH MOORE
THE ENTERPRISE
Fear of extreme flooding joinedworries of high winds and toppledtrees Friday as the teeth of themammoth meteorological buzzsaw
called Hurricane Ike bit into theSoutheast Texas coast.
The cheery, were-staying attitudeamong residents who ignored evac-uation calls the day before gave wayto anxiety over whether the surge
would top levees and cause rivers
and bayous to back up.Ike was expected to come ashore
just after midnight Friday, with winds in the 100 mph neighbor-hood, as its center crossed overGalveston Island, hurling his nastynortheast side into Southeast Texas.
But it was the surge from a stormthat spanned a large portion of theGulf that sparked the greatest con-cerns.
Images of an angry sea climbingover the 17-foot-high GalvestonSeawall filled television and com-
puter screens early Friday, but the worst of Ikes storm surge asmuch as 20 feet was expected tobash the Southeast Texas coast.
Hurricane Ikes influence is
HURRICANE, page 4A
Tammy McKinley/The Enterprise
Jacob Alpough watches the water rise and the winds pick up as Hur-
ricane Ike gets closer to the seawall in Port Arthur on Friday.