Gilchrist and Crystal Beach took it even harder than Galveston proper, if you can believe it...the water tower in Crystal Beach surprisingly made it through intact. It just makes me want to cry...I've been going to Galveston several times a year for a long time now, it's only a few hours drive :( It's truly heartbreaking to look at the ruins.
There was a similar photo from Victoria(.au) after the 1983 bushfires - it had just ripped through everything except the 2nd last house in the street, which had been jumped...
I wonder if that house is still standing where it used to be, or whether itss foundations are the concrete slightly to the left...
This shot reminds me of flying over Indonesia, right after the '04 tsunami. Crap like that was everywhere. Blocks and miles and acres of mud and then....ONE house, ONE temple, ONE tree.
Reminds me of Camile - which hit in the late 60s for those of you (most probably) who don't remember it. I drove through the Florida Panhandle two years after it hit and still saw stuff like that. I vividly remember a tub with attached plumbing lines hanging in a tree.
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Date: 2008-09-17 12:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-09-17 01:33 am (UTC)Because I look at this.
And so help me god, what springs to mind is "Remo Williams Was Here".
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-17 02:18 am (UTC)I wonder if that house is still standing where it used to be, or whether itss foundations are the concrete slightly to the left...
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Date: 2008-09-17 02:56 pm (UTC)I wondered that, too.
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Date: 2008-09-17 03:53 am (UTC)Blocks and miles and acres of mud and then....ONE house, ONE temple, ONE tree.
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