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Title: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Mickey1992 on September 18, 2008, 10:05:03 AM
Crazy.  Although I thought it would be a lot worse.

http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ike/photo-comparisons/images/crystal_bch_TX_Loc1-lg.jpg
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ike/photo-comparisons/images/crystal_bch_TX_Loc1-lg.jpg
http://www.nbc-2.com/articles/readarticle.asp?articleid=21622&z=3
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Bodhi on September 18, 2008, 10:07:52 AM
I wonder if the insurance companies will blame it on a flood or hurricane...
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: SkyRock on September 18, 2008, 10:13:45 AM
I wonder if the insurance companies will blame it on a flood or hurricane...
whichever way allows them to slime out of their responsiblilties. :aok
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Ripsnort on September 18, 2008, 10:14:23 AM
I wonder if the insurance companies will blame it on a flood or hurricane...
Liberals will blame Boosh!  :rofl
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: SkyRock on September 18, 2008, 10:23:40 AM
Liberals will blame Boosh!  :rofl
No, they'll blame Palin. :noid




 :noid



 :devil
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: avionix on September 18, 2008, 11:00:05 AM
Wonder when we will see the "Bush hates black people" quote?
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Shuffler on September 18, 2008, 11:40:11 AM
lol Dems claim Palin has no experience..... yet she is just in for the VP. Dems P has less experience.

Question .... how much experince is required to control a hurricane?  :P
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Kaw1000 on September 18, 2008, 11:58:21 AM
Intresting...thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: kamilyun on September 18, 2008, 12:01:01 PM
I wonder if their insurance will cost more, or if they'll be allowed to rebuild after this...
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: MORAY37 on September 18, 2008, 01:29:00 PM
Liberals will blame Boosh!  :rofl

Certainly not Bush's fault there was a hurricane.  Have been and will be hurricanes for millenia.  I think people were looking, and placing the blame on the head of government who put his cronie in charge of FEMA and the subsequent debacle that ensued in New Orleans.  So, pretty much the response to a known issue, a hurricane, is what people have issues with.  An extremely large national disaster encompasses FEMA's responsibility and therefore the responsibility of the man in charge of that organization, extrapolated to the man who gave him the job.  If my boss gives me a job, and I blow up the lab, we both get fired.


Just like they will point out that there are supplies sitting in trucks right now, with hundreds of drivers getting 800$ per day on taxpayer expense, because they can't figure out where to put them. 
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: SkyRock on September 18, 2008, 03:10:34 PM



Just like they will point out that there are supplies sitting in trucks right now, with hundreds of drivers getting 800$ per day on taxpayer expense, because they can't figure out where to put them. 
That's not Bush's fault, he'sjust the........wait........leader of our nation. :O
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: DiabloTX on September 18, 2008, 03:13:29 PM
I've drank a lot of beer at Crystal Beach and had some Animal House like memories from there.  There's a small pizza joint there, too, not far from the ferry that I loved going to.  I hope they rebuild.   
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Reschke on September 18, 2008, 04:14:42 PM
If it is anything like what happened in Orange Beach, AL after Ivan came through; which was a Cat 3 at landfall; then you will understand that while they are awful natural disasters they aren't anything that humans can and will overcome. When Ivan hit the beach at Gulf Shores, AL and Orange Beach, AL the wall of water was reported at 14 feet high and the surge went in about a mile and a half before breaking on a creek and not continuing inland.

I am sorry that people died but those dummy's should have left when they had the chance. It is the same as when Katrina came in and idiots didn't leave.

HOWEVER one should note that the same FEMA director which began overseeing the cleanup and supplies for Ivan is the same one that was forced out after "dropping" the ball with Katrina.
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: john9001 on September 18, 2008, 05:46:31 PM
the mayor of new Orleans is not named FEMA, nor was the governor of louisiana.
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Elfie on September 18, 2008, 05:47:40 PM
Wonder when we will see the "Bush hates black people" quote?

We just did?   :devil
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Donzo on September 18, 2008, 06:24:27 PM
the mayor of new Orleans is not named FEMA, nor was the governor of louisiana.

and it's not New Orleans...it's the Chocolate City
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: sluggish on September 18, 2008, 06:36:53 PM
Interesting thing about that picture:  If you want your house to survive a hurricane, pour a concrete slab under neither it.  The only structures (four, I count) standing in the foreground have a slab under them.  If I were an insurance provider that would be a new requirement.
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Donzo on September 18, 2008, 06:42:06 PM
Hell, just build the whole house out of concrete

http://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete-homes/ (http://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete-homes/)
Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Masherbrum on September 18, 2008, 06:46:03 PM
Interesting thing about that picture:  If you want your house to survive a hurricane, pour a concrete slab under neither it.  The only structures (four, I count) standing in the foreground have a slab under them.  If I were an insurance provider that would be a new requirement.

I don't know if that's necessarily why they survived.   The slab is "within" the sandy soil and would be eroded just as easily from all sides of the slab, including underneath.   

Title: Re: Before and after Galveston pics.
Post by: Curval on September 18, 2008, 06:51:12 PM
Hell, just build the whole house out of concrete

http://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete-homes/ (http://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete-homes/)

We do it here, have done for centuries, although limestone was the precursor.