Galveston, 2008

A few weekends ago I volunteered with a group doing cleanup in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. Ike was the third most destructive in US history (in terms of property loss) behind Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Andrew. Burried in the headlines during the 2008 presidential campaign, it recieved considerable less coverage than much smaller and less destructive storms.


Boats strewn along the highway were steadily being lifted away by the time we arrived.

note that this Corvette that the house fell down on is not in a logical position of where a garage would be:

There were homes here a month before, the woman who lived in one of these houses found here bedroom behind a house nearly a block away. There was likely a tornado that went through this part: