[LikeLight]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/L/LADP11109251608.html?SITE=LAMON&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Go here (Holly Beach, LA shot) to see where stilts or no stilts was pretty much irrelevant.

[SunnySide]

I'd say the word obliterated is appropriate for that image.

[bd476]

The destruction is so extensive that the photo almost looks blurry with only vague lines of distinction between properties or buildings.

[Tunehead54]

Go here (Holly Beach, LA shot) to see where stilts or no stilts was pretty much irrelevant.

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Right - engineering has its limits but see my stilt pic in #135 and pick out the house you'd rather have been on a slab vs. stilts? ;-) Some of the newer construction around the gulf is 15' above mean high tide or more. The way they sink the pilings and tie everything together is impressive.