Posted on 09/16/2008 5:04:18 PM PDT by Rebelbase
GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - The few hundred holdouts on Texas' ravaged Bolivar Peninsula will be required to leave in the next few days, and officials said Tuesday they are ready to use emergency powers to empty the barrier island scraped clean by Hurricane Ike.
(Tex A.G. looking at legal options)
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
That vaunted house is easily seen even on the satellite photos of the area. It is not a photoshop job, as has been suggested by many.
That house is easily seen on the appropriate satellite photo of the area.
Odd though it seems- that IS a real house- I saw the videos from the helicopter trips out there the first and second day after the storm- it was reportedly built by a firm trying to build hurricane-proof houses. So far- it appears to be a successful design!
it’s real... the house shows up in the noaa photos also
If you run across a link to satellite shots of such and remember, please ping me to it.
I looked on the Gilchrist Street Map and I believe the street it sits on is Hebert St Gilchirst TX 77617
It sits 3 streets from the Rollover Pass (on the southeast side of it)
here is a street map
http://www.bolivarchamber.org/portals/0/BolivarPeninsulaRight.pdf
Now for the strange stuff... a large church sat behind it and you can see the large church in some older aerial photos.
NOAA PHOTO OF HOUSE
This picture shows the house to the east of Rollover Pass. (you can see the blue thing to the left of the house)
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/ike/geo-C25883946.jpg
PHOTOGRAPHERS PHOTO OF HOUSE
This picture is pointed directly east (towards High Island)
(notice the blue thing to the left of the house)
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/ike_09_15/ike11.jpg
GREAT.
MUCH appreciated.
Thanks. Just right.
A condo development would bring in more tax revenue to the city than the houses. So it’s OK to first railroad the people off their property under some emergency ruse, the use eminent domain to steal it so it can be sold to developers. Thank you U.S. Supreme court.
Incredible.
Seems to me . . . a concrete dome home is the only way to go—on high prestressed concrete pilings very thick and deep.
. . . with maybe a ring of other pilings sticking up high enough to act as more than a break-water—a screen of large debris . . . but then . . . the view . . . vanity, vanity, all is vanity.
I wonder if there was a special deep rooted grass planted in front of the house? The yard kept the waves from undermining the foundation to the extent of failure.
Two days ago, someone showed me how to find it. I have no idea any more. I will ping you if I run across it again, though. It is a really cool phenomenon.
See above for some such shots.
Thx
Good - that geo-C25883946.jpg picture is not the one I first saw it in, but it is the same area. Did you see it? It is on the right edge, below the road, after you click there to override the browser’s auto-size.
Someone mentioned that it was bolted to the slab - an extra measure not normally taken. I guarantee that the contractor who built it is going to be deluged with business and phone calls!
It is almost eerie, it looks so serene in that wasteland.
No special grass but Geotubes and scour tubes were put in (the black things you see on the shores edge)
Also there was a factory in Gilchrist that builts pre-fab hurricane proof homes. Many of them homes were set-up in Gilchrist but are now gone.
I am wondering if this last house standing was the “demo” display house and that the others were not built as well.
http://galveston-crystalbeach.alicedonahue.com/AudubonVillageBolivar.aspx
I think it is important when referencing Kelo that we put the blame where it belongs. That was not the USSC in entirety. It was specifically Stevens, Ginsberg, Souter, Kennedy and Breyer who made that stupid eminent domain decision.
O’Conner, Rehnquist, Thomas and Scalia voted in opposition to them. We have to get rid of those horrible others - especially Ginsberg and Stevens and Souter.
Quite plausible.
The concrete Domed one survived well—I forget—I think it was in Florida.
more about the prefab hurricane proof homes
http://www.bolivarchamber.org/Gilchrist.aspx
Also the home does sit on Herbert St
you can zoom in on it at...
http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=29.517002~-94.477524&style=h&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=9037500&encType=1
It is 2 streets to the east from the Rollover Pass (canal)
black roof
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