Wow, five years ago Hurricane Ike came into Galveston and slowed down parts of Houston.
I can't remember how many tropical storms and a few hurricanes my wife and I had been through living 13 years in S.E. Texas, but we had enough. It was the week of or somewhere in the days of the 12th-15th of September we decided to move back home. From Tropical storm Allison to Hurricane Rita and Katrina to Ike....we had enough.
My wife was made an indentured servant to help(mandatory) FEMA with Rita and Katrina. She was assigned different areas from helping find missing family members, to locating hotels for people to stay to holding the hand of the elderly to comforting the sick and dying. It took an enormous toll on her mental psyche and an unfortunate detesting of FEMA.
She now has the attitude of eating twigs, sticks, and mud then relying on FEMA or our Government in times of disaster.....very unfortunate.
Back to Ike; I still have friends in "G-Town" and some of the old sites and piers are gone. I'll never forget our(wife and myself) first three years of being married and living in Galveston, then moving to Houston for another 10 years. My wife and I use to want to live in a costal town such as Galveston and Biloxi but seeing the total and complete devastation of what a hurricane can do then governmental help...no thanks. The only real issue I have is being without food, gasoline, and electricity for up to 13 days. No travel or traffic from sunset to sunrise, again...no electricity the gas stations can't pump gas.
Many other issues but I won't go into that.
5 years later and thankful to be back home of the right side of red river!!
Little momentos of Ike and the Galveston area that I use to know.
One of my buddies house....fourth behind the one burning.
Bolivar area...take the Galveston ferry East to Bolivar beach. The only house standing was built to hurricane proof standards.
I-45 into Galveston just before the causeway bridge.
One of the Galveston cemeteries.
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too many pictures to post, but I'll leave you with this....not fun, not fun at all.
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I can't remember how many tropical storms and a few hurricanes my wife and I had been through living 13 years in S.E. Texas, but we had enough. It was the week of or somewhere in the days of the 12th-15th of September we decided to move back home. From Tropical storm Allison to Hurricane Rita and Katrina to Ike....we had enough.
My wife was made an indentured servant to help(mandatory) FEMA with Rita and Katrina. She was assigned different areas from helping find missing family members, to locating hotels for people to stay to holding the hand of the elderly to comforting the sick and dying. It took an enormous toll on her mental psyche and an unfortunate detesting of FEMA.
She now has the attitude of eating twigs, sticks, and mud then relying on FEMA or our Government in times of disaster.....very unfortunate.
Back to Ike; I still have friends in "G-Town" and some of the old sites and piers are gone. I'll never forget our(wife and myself) first three years of being married and living in Galveston, then moving to Houston for another 10 years. My wife and I use to want to live in a costal town such as Galveston and Biloxi but seeing the total and complete devastation of what a hurricane can do then governmental help...no thanks. The only real issue I have is being without food, gasoline, and electricity for up to 13 days. No travel or traffic from sunset to sunrise, again...no electricity the gas stations can't pump gas.
Many other issues but I won't go into that.
5 years later and thankful to be back home of the right side of red river!!
Little momentos of Ike and the Galveston area that I use to know.
One of my buddies house....fourth behind the one burning.
Bolivar area...take the Galveston ferry East to Bolivar beach. The only house standing was built to hurricane proof standards.
I-45 into Galveston just before the causeway bridge.
One of the Galveston cemeteries.
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too many pictures to post, but I'll leave you with this....not fun, not fun at all.
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