One house in a sea of destruction....
 

You gotta check out the pictures that accompanies the article... there's a slideshow of them

Their house survived Ike, but it's the only one left

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/18/ike...ing/index.html

By Jason Hanna
CNN


(CNN) -- Warren and Pam Adams lost a house to Hurricane Rita in 2005, so it seems they'd be relieved to learn their new home withstood Hurricane Ike.

But not when their house is the only one still standing in their section of Gilchrist, Texas.

Ike's storm surge last week devastated the Bolivar Peninsula town, flattening most of the roughly 200 homes there. The couple's yellow house at the beach -- supported 14 feet off the ground by wooden columns -- was the only house on Gilchrist's Gulf Coast side not to be flattened.

"As we got there, the tears started flowing," Warren Adams, 63, said Thursday after his first visit to the home since evacuating. "There's a yellow house sitting there, but that's all. It was devastating."

Although the house is there, it might not continue to stand. Huge storm surges walloped the interior, making it uninhabitable and destroying many belongings.

Re: One house in a sea of destruction....
 

It's the only one left standing, but it is destroyed anyway (water damaged and such).

The real question is why people are allowed to build houses in a location that requires them to be on stilts for flooding and gets hit with hurricanes and such on a fairly regular basis?

At the end of the day, someone is paying for this stuff.

Re: One house in a sea of destruction....
 

Yeah.. not my idea of a goo place to live.