[Coco] Eye of Ike approaching my home

[Dave Kelly]

Rod Barnhart wrote:
>
> Hope you have your power restored soon! And I hope everyone came
> through the storms OK. Ohio was hit pretty hard by windstorms
> (equivalent to category 1 hurricane winds), and there were widespread
> power outages. I was lucky enough to live in one of the few homes in
> Lancaster, OH, (20-ish miles SE of Columbus) that didn't lose power. I
> lost a section of privacy fence and some shingles on my garage, but
> overall I came out fine. Parts of Lancaster and Columbus are still
> without power and aren't expecting it back on until Monday or so. Our
> power company had sent most of their crews to help restore power in
> Texas by the time the wind blew through on Sunday, but they were
> recalled (and the workforce is doubled via contractors) and are
> working 16-on, 8-off shifts to get everything restored here.
>   
Power came back on at 1:30.

I don't know if the pictures that I saw in the  Houston
chronicle got up your way or not.

The town of  Gilcrest on the Bolivar point across the bay from
Galveston was wiped clean. Entire town nothing but slabs left.
EXCEPT for this one red and white new house looks as if it had been 
built after the  storm  passed thru.  A good example of building by the 
building codes.

Lots of people on the coast have lost land. The State of Texas has an 
open  beach law. Every thing from the natural grass line to the water is 
publicly owned. The wind and wave action in a storm of this magnitude 
can drastically alter the shore line. What was a house built on stilts 
and 200 feet from the waters edge and 150 behind the grass line may now 
be a set of stilts at the water line or even off shore a ways. Unless 
they have land behind the grass line they can not rebuild.