REMARKABLE Photos of Ike's Aftermath

[Dover]

Some of these should be award winning. Just stunning -

http://boston.com:80/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html

[Muttocracy]

1. Wow. nt

[Greyskye]

2. Photos are amazing.

Comments posted at the bottom made me :puke:

[shraby]

3. Will that horse survive drinking the salt water?

[SoCalDem]

4. Nope..especially since it's totally contaminated with "stuff"

Anyone with a horse probaby had a horse trailer..shame on them for not evacuating him/her.. or for not calling the ASPCA for help if they needed it..:grr:

[EFerrari]

6. I was just thinking the same thing. That baby is going to be sick. n/t

[Xithras]

9. It's not salt water.

The caption for the photo says it was taken near Winnie Texas, which is a bit inland in an area crossed by creeks, well above the surge area. The water is probably from creeks swollen by all the rain and should be fresh.

[EFerrari]

13. How can that be? Winnie is where they took the folks from Bolivar.

Look at that water.

[Xithras]

17. Winnie is over 10 miles inland and almost 30 feet above sea level.

I looked it up. They did have some serious flooding in the area, but it was from rain swollen creeks and not from storm surge. That's rainwater, not ocean water.

[Strelnikov_]

23. Winnie was on the edge of the predicted surge zone

And the last SLOSH runs indicated a 20-25' potential (above MSL) in that area.

It appears that I-10 was approximately the surge risk boundary in that vicinity.

It would not surprise me if just south of town was subjected to surge.

http://www.khou.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=224476&sid=762da1da32d874b3eb6c225c840a58f6

My husband made it back to Winnie and he said it looks like a bomb went off. We live on the corner of Freeman and East Palm and had windows broken, water in all the bedrooms and our shop in the back yard is destoyed. Kit Jones and his family live diagonally behind us and they stayed and are home and are fine. Kit told me that it is BAD in winnie!! My husband keeps telling me to NOT come back with our kids, there's nothing we can do right now. Also, for anyone who cares about the Hamshire area. I do know that Vincent Road, at the end of Englin Road, is totally destroyed. Some houses are still standing there, but had atleast 8 feet of water in them. This is from the corner, where Johnny Ackel live ad goes all the way to the end of the road. I know this because my parents live close to the end of Vincent Road and a neighbor went out there today to take a look. My parents also had a rent house on some other property on the same street and the house floated away and is across the road in a pasture. This area was hit with the storm surge and has salt water in the homes. The only way back there is by boat. Alot of the homes in between Vincent Road and Hwy 73 have water in them and some homes between Hwy 73 and Hwy 124 have water in them too. Hope this helps somebody in some way.

[KathieG]

20. As a horse owner...that picture bothers me, I don't think he will last

long if they don't get him out...even if the water isn't salt, it most definitely is contaminated. Horses have VERY sensitive digestive systems, if he develops diarrhea...he will die without veterinary attention. He could also die of colic especially since he isn't getting much to eat. :-(

[uppityperson]

5. Link to more "Resident photo gallery"

http://galvestonisland.tv/?p=94

[Blue_In_AK]

7. This is so sad to me.

I spent my teenage years back in the '60s in Pasadena, and my then boyfriend (and now husband) and i used to spend many happy days on Galveston Beach. In fact, we were back a couple of years ago to reminisce about the old days. This really just breaks my heart.

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. You hold your tongue when it comes to complaining when people don't

evacuate after what we experienced what we did with Katrina, and what with Galveston already having a history with regards to hurricane disaster. But to do this to that animal. The poor thing is fenced in. What the hell were those people thinking?

[Bobbieo]

10. The hurricane season is not over until Nov 30th.

[EFerrari]

14. How can anyone leave their horse and fenced in.

It did okay -- there is some dry ground, maybe that's the main thing. I couldn't do that. My mom has two horses. You couldn't get her to leave them with a gun to her head.

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. If you're into horse rescues, I'm sure you've seen this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRc3Ev05QiM

[EFerrari]

19. No, I remember the story but hadn't seen it.

Those people were amazing. :)

[The Backlash Cometh]

26. Chokes me up, every time.

[geek_sabre]

11. Ike did some major damage in KY

still without power since Sunday afternoon. Brutal storm.

[JHB]

12. Can't help but wonder what saved that one house in #11

Sheer luck?
Good design that let most of the water pass without much resistance?
Some sort of waterbreak just off camera?

Kind of like scenes after California brush fires where one house in the neighborhood survives. What went right among all that wrong?

[EFerrari]

21. Looking at the lawn that survived, it seems as though the ground

on both sides gave away more easily -- the water didn't have to work as hard to flow. Amazing.

[XOKCowboy]

16. Some very powerful photos there...

Thanks for the link.

[Cleita]

18. Stunning pictures Dover and sad at the same time.

Thanks for posting.

[mnhtnbb]

22. #18--poor kitty in a tree! I hope someone tried to get it down and take care of it.

[TheWatcher]

24. That really needs to go on icanhascheezburger.com

With the Caption:

9 livez....

I haz them.

And I think someone probably did take him in. How could they not?

[Catherine Vincent]

25. Those pics are unbelievable.

I've been reading the comments and it was getting pretty thick in there. This comment was one of the better ones:

Whoa there, religious nuts. Ike was a natural disaster, not a retribution from God. It didn't happen because this country allows women the right of reproductive choice, and keeps church and state separate. Those of you in south Texas especially know that the worst hurricane in American history was the 1900 storm that killed 8,000 people in Galveston BEFORE legalized abortion and back when there was still prayer in the schools. So give us a break, okay? Instead of blaming God, be thankful for the National Weather Service, satellite imagery, and sophisticated forecast models. That's what we were missing in 1900, and why so many died back then.
Posted by Yankee Dan September 18, 08 03:59 PM

Yankee Doodle Dan is 100% right!

[David Zephyr]

27. Very hard for me to look at as this is where I grew up as a young boy.

Galveston, Bolivar, Surfside, Kemah, Seabrook and all of Galveston Bay were hit hard, and I can only think how bad it would have been if a Catagory 3,4 or 5 had hit.

This is heartbreaking.

And where is George Bush?

[knitter4democracy]

28. One of the comments made me ill, though.

The commenter saying she's so glad people aren't blaming "poor president Bush" over this like they did Katrina. Um, and how is this better?