Monday, September 15, 2008

Pictures from Smith Point - Hurricane Ike

This is our place.  The downstairs is completely washed out and we lost almost all of the exterior walls.  The air conditioner is gone.  That red mower in front came from someone else's place.  The pile of debris is huge, as the trees adjacent to our house must have filtered the flow of water.  We don't know yet if the interior stairs are intact.  Louis's house across the street is in similar condition with everything downstairs washed away.  A dead cow was in front.
This is Ralph's house next door to us.  He also lost everything downstairs.  All the leaves were blown out of the nice tree that we look out at from our living room.  Those may be our appliances next to his house!  
Amazingly, most of the pier survived.
This is where the two houses that faced the pier were.  They are completely wiped out - even the pilons of the one on the left.  Wow.  The Picket's home is the one behind on the right.  Although it looks intact, it was knocked off the pilons and will have to be demolished.  That happened to quite a few of the homes.

This is almost unrecognizable to me as the Anderson's beautiful home.  The down stairs bathroom, exterior and interior steps are gone.  It is so, so sad.


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