Now that the storm has exited into the Atlantic, we can start to assess damage. My brother's beach house (Surfside, Texas about 30 minute drive south of Galveston) was one left standing (sand colored 1 story in the distance of the 1st pic). The second pic shows the roof of the house that used to be in between the yellow and blue house and his. Notice the deck is also missing from the yellow and blue house. His house is just missing the stairs… One thing that surprised me is the amount of sand that is gone. The big chunks of rock in front of his place are normally buried by dunes about 2m. tall. And you can see where the concrete "rings" around the stilts marks the normal depth of the sand. He said when he rebuilt it, he did it to 210 km/h (130mph) standards/codes. Obviously some others did not.
Wow, quite some damage there. At least the house is still standing. Btw how's ur site? Did Hurricane Gustav hit Alabama? Hope everything ok there.
Wow.. 2m dunes and they are all gone?? That is A LOT of sand! I wonder where they were all blown to... Frankly, I am surprised that houses built on stilts can survive such a storm. It must have been pretty flexible to stand up to the beating.
Wow, that is just amazing. Here in the Midwest we get spared from almost all of the wrath, but still flooding gave us the most trouble here.
it was very windy here in buffalo, NY on sunday. winds gusting up to 100km/h .. was drivign from toronto back to buffalo in my friends chev. prism .. can feel the car being hit by the wind. no fun to drive at all.
closer to 180km/h as the storm hit... No plans to have power for 1 month.. no internet/land phone lines for 3 months
LOL!!! You are not worried about crosswinds??? Even on the PLUS highway, there used to be areas where I could feel the crosswind push my car sideways at 110-120 km/h.
Heavy car FTW! here winds around 105 km/h are the norm you still better be going at least 113 km/h or you will get run over!
