The short but eventful life of Ike

[La Gringa]

http://www.boston.com:80/bigpicture/...l_life_of.html

Some amazing photos - worth a look.

(even though the TCI didn't even get a mention!)

[F16TJ]

THAT makes me cry.

[Russell A. Jost]

http://www.boston.com:80/bigpicture/...l_life_of.html

Some amazing photos - worth a look.

(even though the TCI didn't even get a mention!)

La Gringa, the devastation is unbelieveable. Was the destruction on TCI that bad as well?

[gottaflylee]

Amaseing how low and flat all that area is. My heart go out to all that live in that area...

[foxhole]

Very hard to look at some of those pics.

[austin ensor]

couldent imaggine!!!

[La Gringa]

La Gringa, the devastation is unbelieveable. Was the destruction on TCI that bad as well?

Grand Turk, South Caicos and Salt Cay pretty much lost all wooden structures. Ike went directly over them. The islands are low and flat and there is considerable flooding. We were much luckier on Provo as the storm veered a little south of us.

I don't think it was quite as bad though as, for example, the one photo of that single house standing in a vast plain of destruction. In that photo there are no foundations, no pilings.. nothing...!!! Here it wasn't quite as "leveled" as that but still catastrophic nevertheless. Roofs ripped off, belongings sucked out and blown all over - massive flooding.

You all probably think that I am obssessing over this and perhaps I am. I'd never been through a hurricane before last week (though I am told as an infant I went through Donna). And I got to go through two. I'm not afraid but it does somehow change things... forever.

Gringo and I talk about getting back to normal. But really, it's getting back to a "new" normal, isn't it?

[gottaflylee]

I have been through every hurricane here in Wrightsville Beach area since Hazel in 54. I have been through so many now that I have lost count. I think 4 hit here in 1 season, 2 bad, 2 not so bad. With out a doubt, each one is different but you/ I get use to them. The drill of getting ready is so banged into my head, starting with getting the boats out of harms way and deciding how much I need to board up on the house. Anyway, as time passes, it will get "old hat" for you and they will be just another distant memory for you...

[F16TJ]

The reason this strikes me so, is my wife and I went to New Orleans back in July and took the "Katrina Tour". Really unbelievable with all that happened with the floods after the levees broke. We were a little leery with the tour thinking it would be too political, but they did a good job with the tour and keeping it factual. As a teenager, I went through a couple of minor hurricanes while growing up in Lauderdale. But, I have never seen anything like these pictures from Texas and Ike, or the pictures of Biloxi and Gulfport, after Katrina. The immense power of that storm surge is amazing! I feel so sorry for those people who have lost so much.

And those boats, whoa.......

[Robja]

Great Pics but I think it missed the real power of Ike and the destruction that it did particularly in TCI and Hati