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Here are a series of before-and-after pictures from Galveston, Texas. Click the pictures to have them fade between “before” and “after.” I want to know what happened this house.
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Texas officials want to use an aging cruise ship as temporary housing for about 1,000 Hurricane Ike refugees. So on the downside, you’ve lost your home, but on the upside: shuffleboard!
Here’s a shot of Mr. Mike Litoris, a homeowner being interviewed on a local news channel in California about a fire in his neighborhood. Jury’s still out on whether Mike punk’d the reporter, or if that’s really his name. Either way, we just found the best prank call name EVER. Hugh Jass, you’ve just been replaced.
A photo of the last house standing in a wasteland left in Hurricane Ike’s aftermath.
Hurricane Ike uncovers the skeletal remains of a badly-burned ship from the Civil War era.
Gilchrist, Texas is on the Bolivar Peninsula and was almost completely destroyed by Hurricane Ike. The only thing left standing, seemingly untouched, was this one vacation house. Here is a pretty amazing picture that may hold the clues to how this one house was able to survive. Slightly higher ground?
Hurricane Ike gets the best of a Weather Channel reporter, as a rather powerful gust of wind sends him tumbling off camera. The reporter, Mike Bennis, literally had to hang onto a bush to keep from being sent into Ike’s oblivion.
Science Buzz Hurricane season 2008 continues as Ike nears landfall in Houston. The country’s 4th largest city isn’t evacuating — they’re going to “stare down” the storm instead.