From One Disaster to Another

It's been almost 7 months since Hurricane Ike demolished Galveston. Much progress has been made, but much work remains! This jacuzzi tub washed in with the high north winds on Sunday afternoon and lodged under what's left of our dock. I hate to even think about what all is floating around in the West Bay.



This is our front door ~ you'll notice the lack of stucco. That said, we're happy to have a door!





Unfortunately, this is the back of our townhouse. No insurance settlement = no outside walls. Lawyers still working on it and the association has secured a Small Business loan to re-start the repair project. Don't know when because the SECOND contractor has just been fired and #3 isn't on the horizon. The good news for us is that our storage and inside garage walls have been replaced (at our uninsured expense) so we are "dried in" and waiting on exterior walls before working on the stairs/carpet/tile replacement.






This is our neighbor in #4 and our friends, the Rollins, who own #6. You can see that the theme of missing walls continues throughout the complex. It's a depressing sight, but when you compare it to what it looked like just after the storm it IS an improvement.






This is #37 and if you remember the original photos it was completely demolished. It's just a shell, but having a partial wall on the outside is progress.




I've just assembled a pretty complete slide show of "after" photos from all around the complex and you can scroll through them at: http://www.piratescovetownhomes.com/Ike.html