tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post7804591880327926047..comments2023-10-03T18:30:42.773-05:00Comments on Meta Watershed: HURRICANE IKE -- WEST END, BOLIVAR PENINSULA, AND FEMA RESPONSEMaggie Jochildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07577090500862823864noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post-33063847155944101502008-09-17T18:02:00.000-05:002008-09-17T18:02:00.000-05:00I was very curious why no early coverage came out ...I was very curious why no early coverage came out of West End and bady damaged beaches and towns to the East. Today Houston Channel 2 helicopter flew low over the west end all day, broadcasting the view while checking houses for callers and emailers. It is my impression the vast majority of pricy homes on stilts made it fine with damage to stairs, decks and anything on the ground. Homes next to the gulf shore did not fair as well. The Bolivar lighthouse is fine but little else Eastward is. In Bolivar, a rescued lioness spent the storm night in a flooded Baptist Church with survivors. "Thus the lion did lay down with the shrimpers and Baptists...."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post-45632884683517450142008-09-15T22:55:00.000-05:002008-09-15T22:55:00.000-05:00Well, if it's crass, I'm there with ya. I'm griev...Well, if it's crass, I'm there with ya. I'm grieving an imaginary house, if you can believe it. For sure it's gone.<BR/><BR/>Did find out that Gaido's (the place they eat coming and going each year in Galveston is intact, though. The cemetery, however, where Rosa, Sam, Louis and Lena are buried has given up its dead to floodwaters. It will make Ginny a little bonkers to hear that.Maggie Jochildhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07577090500862823864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3576716365575919550.post-66535499666834561172008-09-15T18:46:00.000-05:002008-09-15T18:46:00.000-05:00at the risk of being hopelessly crass...not Ginny/...at the risk of being hopelessly crass...<BR/>not Ginny/Myra's house!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com