In my other articles about Hurricane Ike, I mentioned that we expected a lot of damage to Houston and surrounding areas. And I was right. Galveston was almost completely swallowed by water, and I'm sure that Crystal Beach was. The reporters are not allowed on the island, and we haven't heard any info at all about Crystal Beach. There are bodies turning up here and there on Galveston, entire houses are completely gone, not ruined, but gone. All that's left are driveways and stilts the houses were sitting on.
I stayed, but at a different home that had windows boarded up. And thank God they were. In the middle of the night around 3 in the morning, the neighbors awning from their porch, folded up and flew into the side of the house I was in. Just in that neighborhood, there were fences gone, missing, or torn up. Trees were down everywhere. The McDonalds sign by my house was torn in half, and the one down the street was layed out on the road. Banks were destroyed, homes, restaraunts, and gas stations. I saw one gas station where the cover for the pumps was knocked over on the ground. And another gas station, didn't even have the pumps anymore! Lights are dangling from the poles. Power lines are down, and there are millions of people who still don't have power. Everyone is running out of food and water. We can't even drink our water without boiling it first.
Houston and surounding areas really are in a state of disaster.
