Locations index for photo pairs of Bolivar Peninsula, TX. Green line represents the storm track of Hurricane Ike.
Posted on 09/17/2008 7:03:43 AM PDT by CE2949BB
Locations index for photo pairs of Bolivar Peninsula, TX. Green line represents the storm track of Hurricane Ike.
Location 1: Oblique aerial photography of Bolivar Peninsula, TX, on September 9, 2008 (top) and September 15, 2008, two days after landfall of Hurricane Ike (bottom). Yellow arrows mark features that appear in each image. In addition to the loss of houses, the evidence of inundation here includes eroded dune face and sand deposited well inland of the shoreline.
Location 2: Oblique aerial photography of Bolivar Peninsula, TX, on September 9, 2008 (top) and September 15, 2008, two days after landfall of Hurricane Ike (bottom). Yellow arrows mark features that appear in each image. In addition to the loss of houses, the evidence of inundation here includes eroded dune face and sand deposited well inland of the shoreline.
Location 3: Oblique aerial photography of Bolivar Peninsula, TX, on September 9, 2008 (top) and September 15, 2008, two days after landfall of Hurricane Ike (bottom). Yellow arrows mark features that appear in each image. In addition to the loss of houses, the evidence of inundation here includes eroded dune face and sand deposited well inland of the shoreline.
Location 4: Oblique aerial photography of Bolivar Peninsula, TX, on September 9, 2008 (top) and September 15, 2008, two days after landfall of Hurricane Ike (bottom). Yellow arrows mark features that appear in each image. In addition to the loss of houses, the evidence of inundation here includes eroded dune face and sand deposited well inland of the shoreline.
A house on stilts should never be one’s primary residence.
That is pretty sad, saw some of the damage to Pensacola and Gulf Shores after one of the last hurricanes, and that looks about right
self bump to remember how lucky I am.
Thanks for the pictures.
I feel for the folks, but...you build on a narrow spit of land that traditionally is hit by hurricanes, guess what will happen eventually? That’s why I keep pushing my parents to get out of southern Louisiana.
You really have bragging rights if your home is the only one still standing!
bttt
Looks like Bible allegories are true here in the physical sense, “Woe to the man who builds his house on the sand...”
I live on Galveston for 10 years behind that seawall. I never understood why anyone would build out on Bolivar without the seawall! You’re asking for trouble. Also the west end of the island doesn’t have a seawall either - asking for more trouble there too.
wow
You all remember this famous picture:
Here is the exact same house during the storm surge:
bookmark photos of Boliver
Unless you have Federally funded flood insurance. Then taxpayers will build you a new house.
I’m trying to decide if I would consider myself lucky, or unlucky, if I was one of those houses that is still standing.
On the plus side, you’ve still got your worldly possessions (assuming the inside of the house wasn’t under water).
On the negative side, it will be months or years before your neighborhood is put back together, but because your house is standing you are stuck living there with a house you can’t sell.
If your house was destroyed, you get your check and can move on.
My mom got that picture as an email attachment from a friend with an annotation photoshopped in to mark the location in the background of the beach house that had been in that friend's family since the 1940's.
What is the story on that house? Is it made of steel?
If not I want that guy’s “go to” prayer!
Seawalls aren't so great for beaches. Just look a the beach erosion in Galveston. It makes more sense not to live on barrier islands.
Are there any photos that anyone has found that show the area on Bolivar Peninsula around the north jetty and the fort?
http://picasaweb.google.com/heatherrkilgore/MadNonnieComCrystalBeachTexas?authkey=d00oKKtL_lY#
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