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These are unreal. It just doesn't seem possible that it happened.
FoxersArtist
09-20-2008, 08:06 PM
Wow! Did you see the one with the fish stuck in the fence?
I think I'm going to stop visiting coastal cities. This is the second time a hurricane has totally wiped out a city only months after my visit there. The last one was Katrina.
-Anna
Wow! Did you see the one with the fish stuck in the fence?
I think I'm going to stop visiting coastal cities. This is the second time a hurricane has totally wiped out a city only months after my visit there. The last one was Katrina.
-Anna
Yes, that one has been on the news, too.
bonnie
09-20-2008, 09:23 PM
And it was only a category 2 or 3. Can you imagine if it had been a 4 or 5?
Uncle
09-20-2008, 09:44 PM
And it was only a category 2 or 3. Can you imagine if it had been a 4 or 5?
Yes I can - A few years ago I read the accounts of the 1900 hurricain that hit Galveston... Unimaginable.
Yes I can - A few years ago I read the accounts of the 1900 hurricain that hit Galveston... Unimaginable.
I did too, Larry, and looked at the photos.
Anne-Samantha's Mom
09-22-2008, 07:08 AM
ohmygod those are amazing...unimaginable..
birdie
09-22-2008, 01:39 PM
what amazes me is that here and there; there is a house standing still intact and devistaion is all around.
too&me
09-22-2008, 02:02 PM
That home was built in 2006 after Rita took out their other home. It is 19' above the ground and the builder was asked to make it Hurricane proof, he did pretty well. the engineering is available to produce a strong enough house as long as it is above the storm surge, it is the water that does most of the damage not the wind. Now if it was pushing higher water it may not have made it so well. Ike was a cat 2 storm but moved a storm surge of a Cat 4 due to the huge size of this hurricane. Kinetic energy of wind on water over a 600 mile diameter storm.:surf: