ORIGINAL: Michael211
My power came on late Saturday night.... Oh how wonderful it is to take a hot shower and have a fresh pot of coffee in the morning!!!
I heard on the news tonight that they have cadaver dogs working thru Chambers County looking for bodies... seems alot of Bolivar and Crystal Beach stuff was washed fairly far inland into Chambers County and they're thinking some of the missing people might have ended up there. Lotta dead livestock there too that drowned in the storm... not a fun task to be sure. [
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I went to Walmart in Porter TX yesterday and the grocery section looks like the videos of Russian grocery stores right after the collapse of the Soviet Union... alot of bare shelves. The deli was completely closed down and empty. Rats!
While gasoline is alot easier to find I see that stations are still running out from time to time.... the station closest to me had fuel ealier today, but when I went back by at 6:30pm they had baggies on all their pumps again. [:@]
It's only a matter of time before a storm far worse than Ike comes into this area... and look at all the apartments and "planned communities" going up left and right! The next time it's going to be far far worse as more and more people are packing into this area. I don't think Bolivar nor Crystal Beach should be rebuilt; they're death traps when the next big storm comes in. Basically, the more people you put in harms way, the bigger the disaster that will result... storms are getting worse and more frequent IMO.
PilotFighter, which club do you belong to up here? I'm north of Houston also.
Regards!
- Michael
We lived in Mobile, AL when Ivan came ashore in 2004. It's the only time we evacuated during our 25 years there. Luckily (for us, anyway) it jogged a bit east in the last few hours and the worst damage was in the Florida panhandle and Alabama east of the mouth of the bay. In Gulf Shores, AL on the beach the west end of an 8 story concrete condo building collapsed due to undermining of the foundation. It was about 10 units wide, parallel to the beach. The east side looked OK, but from the middle to the west end the roof angled down at a bout a 45 degree angle. Most of the mom and pop stores on the north side of beach road were either totally gone or consisted of a roof and two sides. The surge pushed through the front and back walls and just wiped everything clean.