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What happened when I was gone

Postby Fritz » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:00 pm

I haven't made a thread for a while so I figured I'd post this.

Pictures of the destruction the morning after Hurricane Ike hit:

My dad getting something out of the car or something.
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The guy who lives in this house won like 70 bucks in poker a few days earlier so he had this coming. The tree took out a good chunk of his storm drain if you couldn't tell.
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The bike trails were pretty badly flooded and torn apart.
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There were some areas where the water was up to my neck but I wasn't dumb enough to go in there.

It was still raining pretty hard that morning so that's why a lot of these are really blurry :<
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Postby datherman » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:37 pm

Holy crap. Nature's power is horrific at times.
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Postby Shinigetsu » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:43 pm

Holy crap. Nature's power is horrific at times.
especially when taking advantage of things that people make (e.g. carrying cars, parts of buildings or trees that we plant, as well as flowing through streets, not to mention global warming :? )
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Postby Fritz » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:47 pm

Luckily I don't live in Galveston. Galveston got pants.
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Postby Arloest » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:21 pm

Yeah, it looked pretty much the same where I was.

I'm still without internet at my house though.

Also, yeah, Galveston got hammered. But Bolivar Peninsula got the worst damage.
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Postby Fritz » Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:04 pm

Moar liek bolivar three seperate islands
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Postby Ibun » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:10 pm

Holy fuckshit.
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Postby Arloest » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:46 pm

None of this actually looks impressive at all if you've lived in Houston for long enough.
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Postby osprey » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:13 pm

That's some pretty intense flooding (I too am used to flooding though), but it looks like you guys didn't get hit TOO bad. At least, not as bad as some other places I've seen (assuming Galveston was one of them), so that's good. Still sucks though.
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Postby LewisTheTank » Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:07 am

Plain and simple:
...Glad you're ok...
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Postby GeorgiaCoyote » Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:36 pm

Plain and simple:
...Glad you're ok...
So true. There were way more than a few on Galveston that were not so lucky.
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Postby Doc Sigma » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:28 pm

Someday I swear Galveston is going to just not exist anymore. Nature keeps sodomizing it.
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Postby likeafox » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:28 pm

I found the pictures to be interesting.
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Postby LewisTheTank » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:34 am

I found the pictures to be interesting.
Interesting there wasn't a single houseboat, carboat or actual boat...
...That's good in itself, I suppose. Helped the shoe sales for sure.
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Postby LewisTheTank » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:34 am

I found the pictures to be interesting.
Interesting there wasn't a single houseboat, carboat or actual boat...
...That's good in itself, I suppose. Helped the shoe sales for sure.
(I could have gone w/o saying that, huh? hehe)
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