Galveston, 2008 pt4

Devastation from Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas.
November 2008

Galveston, 2008 pt3

This medical clinic in a shipping container was a part of a community charity organization.

While we worked at bleaching all the studing and ripping everything up down to its bare bones, community members stopped by looking for assistance and we directed them to the church where the charity had moved. It was for working at a community organization like this one, that certain people tried to somehow denigrate and demean the "community organizing" which Barack Obama chose to pursue in lieu of working for biglaw.

These people were providing meals at 3 for free aparently, it was all very crowded every time we passed it.

Galveston, 2008 pt2

A similar photo of this house was picked up by major news outlets, Sunfish and all. Note the silver kettle in the window.

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: