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House Update. . .
Sep. 19th, 2008 08:51 amfor those of you who asked. . . there is no update really. Still in a wait and see mode which is beginning to get very tiresome. Reports from neighbors is that it's still standing on its pilings but no way to tell if water breached the house or not. I'm guessing yes due to wave action. Plus several windows were lost so the whole place is open to any new rain since they won't let us back in to even survey and make temp repairs. My brother-in-law and his brother are going back to the Island today and will once again try to make it out there if they are allowed. Odds are they would need a ladder to enter as everything on the first floor was washed away.
Homes out on that part of the Island are built with break away walls so that the storm surge does not put pressure on the pilings from the weight of the walls. The walls break away and allow flood water to rush under but hopefully not into the house. Latest reports were of a 9.3 surge on the bay side and 12 feet on the beach. I'm somewhere in the middle. Once again, the satellite photos stop a few blocks of my place - ARGH!!!!!, but here's the closest one posted:
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/ike/geo-C25982679.jpg
The street I live on is the farthest on to the right that you can see and my house is a few blocks south of the last one you can see. The debris fields you see surrounding the homes are the remnants of folks garages.
Homes out on that part of the Island are built with break away walls so that the storm surge does not put pressure on the pilings from the weight of the walls. The walls break away and allow flood water to rush under but hopefully not into the house. Latest reports were of a 9.3 surge on the bay side and 12 feet on the beach. I'm somewhere in the middle. Once again, the satellite photos stop a few blocks of my place - ARGH!!!!!, but here's the closest one posted:
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/ike/geo-C25982679.jpg
The street I live on is the farthest on to the right that you can see and my house is a few blocks south of the last one you can see. The debris fields you see surrounding the homes are the remnants of folks garages.
