Hurricane Ike- Seabrook Afterward

Hurricane Ike was the third most destructive hurricane to ever hit the United States. It was the ninth named storm, fifth hurricane and third major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season...


As I've mentioned a few times, my mother's house in Seabrook, Texas got walloped by Ike. Fortunately, she had the good sense to evacuate, and was never in any danger. However, she still had to come home to a mess of apocalyptic proportions. She and her boyfriend Mike have been working nonstop to try and get the house back to a livable condition since they returned in late September, and it's been an endless headache. She finally had a bit of time to send me some pictures detailing the damage, both to her house and the surrounding area. I'll be posting a number of them over the next week or so-

I'm going to start with some pictures of the Seabrook destruction in general. These places are all much worse off than my mother's.

Not sure where this house is. Looks like nailing those boards up didn't help very much.

This is a house on Toddville Road, which runs right along Galveston Bay. The houses on Toddville suffered the worst of the damage.

Because of the danger of storm surges, almost all the houses on Toddville are on stilts. Something you may not realize when you look at this picture: A friend of my family's used to live right next door to the home shown here. Their house is now completely gone.

Unfortunately, a house on stilts can be blown down.

Jeeze. The perils of coastal living, I guess. I certainly hope that no one was in this house when this happened.

I feel a considerable disconnect looking at these pictures. I recognize the locations, but it seems impossible that this could have happened in the town I grew up in.

Next time, I'll have a few pictures from further inland.