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king kong did fart abit, was that!
Latest bi-partisian government plan to halt the mortgage crisis. Can anyone say nuke-leer?
John McCain can’t.
rofl
Nah, It’s just the Post-Bush Administration United States.
I was just about to say, “I’m sure we can blame this on bush somehow.” lol
I really hope you were being sarcastic, btw.
I just want to know is who the builder was!
no kidding.
So that’s how the shields work!
Scotty’s ancestors invent Shielding and live in TX. News at 11.
Construction by photoshop methinks. Still though a funny pic/caption.
Ok, based on some of the comments below, it appears I am mistaken about it’s photoshopped status. I’m too indifferent however, to go looking at links to see if I am actually mistaken or not.
It’s real, tis a crazy fluke that has been reported on incessantly.
Were they preying real hard ?
Were they PRAYING real hard ?
probably both, they did have a huge house on the beach.
They didn’t, but they do now.
The house is bolted to the ground. I think the nut to that bolt is in Chengdu, China
I think this is the center of Gilchrist, TX, between Weber Rd and Austin Dr. It’s hard to be sure, but it looks like it on the Google Map. There’s a blue roofed house in the photo that may be this one.
Good house!
Photoshop, isn’t it?
not photoshopped. it was featured in a CNN article, feel free to google ‘lone house ike’ to see many different views, including a ‘before’.
There’s one for every pic, isn’t there?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/18/ike.last.house.standing/index.html so you don’t have to look it up.
It’s in Galveston, silly people, the only house in the area that didn’t get crushed by the storm surge because it was new and actually built to code.
Is this Galveston or Surfside? There were a few that stood when everything else fell down.
Gilcrest, TX, actually
*Gilchrist
Actually, it is Galveston… there are several other pictures where you can see the rest of the city, which is still standing. This house was first torn down by the hurricane in 2005 and the lady that owns it wanted to stay in that location, so she spent close to $200,000 rebuilding it and bringing it up to codes that will be dood through 2012.
Don’t mean to be a know it all, my dad worked as an electrician on the crew that rebuilt it.
If it’s Galveston, then why do all the news articles say the house was in Gilchrist?
Correct, the address of the home is 992 Church St, Gilchrist TX. It is owned by Warren and Pam Adams.
Privacy fail. But I may want to send them a letter… find out who built their home.
The article said they had some engineering firm from Galveston work on the plans. Bottom floor of their home was 22 feet above sea level, 14 feet above the ground. So even the nasty stormsurge from Ike had to work hard to get in there.
The firm that engineered the house and brought it up to code so that it didn’t get damaged was Aran & Franklin of Galveston, TX. I work for a Steel Building company and they do our engineering. And none of our buildings sustained damages in Galveston. They are a great firm!
They must work with materials blessed by the heavens, then! o_o
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/09/18/ike.last.house.standing/index.html?imw=Y
Don’t take you as a know-it-all in the least. I’ve been amazed at some of the pictures that have come out after Ike. I lived in that area once, so it’s like seeing your childhood home burn down. There isn’t anything you can do, and your own memories and knowledge of the place develop razor blade edges for a while.
“A single home stands in what used to be a neighborhood in Gilchrist, Texas.
Pam and Warren Adams, rebuilt the home in 2006 after it had been destroyed by Hurricane Rita in 2005….they hired a contractor to build a structure that could withstand a Category 5 hurricane and watched over the process to assure it was done right.”
hurricane ike. omg this is funny though!
That’s some serious devastation.
True, but it’s still funny.
I don’t mean to spoil your fun, but maybe you could come down here and walk through the devastation and THEN say it’s funny. Maybe in a few years we’ll be able to look back on all this and laugh — but I doubt it.
Excuse me, I was talking about the caption and picture, not the fact that there are millions of people dead, homeless, and scarred eternally from it. I’m not stupid.
Sorry. I guess I’m just a bit punchy after the week we’ve all had down here. Now that I go back and look at the pic again, yeah, I suppose it’s funny. Don’t mind me.
Hang in there friend.
Ditto.
Thank you!
That’s life in a hurricane zone, same as life in a tornado zone, or earthquake zone, or war zone…everyone has challenges, that’s life and death. This is a forum for looking at normal images and turning them into something else.
I like this one better : http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=2063170
What’s crazy is the owners of that house lost a difference house in Katrina.
Rita, actually. Katrina didn’t really bother the Houston/Galveston area, but Rita hit much closer.
Bolivar Peninsula, TX
“Did you hear something ?”
lol. MB I disagree with you politically, but you always make me smile cause you’re funny.
And BTW, NOT Galveston. I lived there for four years.
http://news.aol.com/article/how-did-lone-home-survive-ike/180724
I would look under the floorboards in the bsmt. You would find a cauldron of gold, the Ark of the Covenant, and possibly Jimmy Hoffa.
Comment fail. There ARE no basements in houses in the Houston-Galveston area, because the water table is too high. Even swimming pools have a tendency to try to pop out of the ground when they’re emptied.
Ok, so make that Attic then!!
This area floods often so we don’t have basements………
Wouldn’t the fact that the house is sitting on pylons hint that there is no basement…?
Construction WIN.
OMG yes. The news article says that while the structure is still there they had massive damage, but this is probably the best advertisement a builder ever had.
This photo is from Galveston after Hurricane Ike.
Gilchrist
Thanks for making fun of our pain and suffering down here.
You are welcome TC00.
i really hope that nothing this horrible and devestating ever happens to any of you who would make light of what has happened to us down here. my father lost two houses in Crystal Beach, the rental of which he was depending on for his retirement. he has been crushed by his loss, as have the thousands of other people who have lost everything they possessed in the world. not to mention those who’s loved ones died in this terrible storm. i know my comment will bring on plenty of “oh lighten up/ laughter is the best medicine” comments, but your levity sickens me.
Were they insured?
As far as I can tell, NO ONE can actually get flood insurance. Unless they live in the desert.
Even if there were such a thing, no company in their right mind would give flood insurance to people who build their homes on the coast, in a hurricane hotspot.
I sell auto insurance for a major insurance company, but my license is for all insurance so I had to study it and take a state exam for homeowner’s, life, auto, health.
Insurance companies only sell flood policies to areas that the government has surveyed and deemd a “flood” zone. Many of these surveys and charts have not been updated in over 20 years. Insurance companies don’t sell flood insurance, we sell protection from the government through our companies, as required by law, only in the afore mentioned “flood” zones. We are allowed to put a ban on any costal selling of this coverage though. My company chooses a 5-mile distance ban, if you’re within 5 miles of an ocean/sea/gulf coastline, no flood coverage for you.
Some companies will coevr storm surge damage because it is not categorized as a flood in the insurance a world. Flood – an accumulation of water coming from the ground (i.e. rain build up, and in some cases river overflow). a storm surge is water driven onto the coast by the wind, and some companies will coevr it as a wind damage. Some companies are thinking of creating a seperate “storm surge” copverage, but no one has done it yet.
You know, though, at least he *had* two houses to lose. One of the bathers in the grooming salon at the PetSmart where I worked lost her entire house (singular). It’s the only place she has to live (having no family to speak of) and, since she works at PetSmart, she doesn’t have any money to rebuild/buy a new one. Now she has to give up two of her dogs b/c they’re Pit Bulls and she has to move into an apartment and no apartments complexes here allow pitties.
And we live near *Tomball* – nowhere near the coast.
And, yes, lighten up. When something like this happens, people use humor to help themselves deal – it’s the way humans are wired. It’s the same reason you laugh when you watch slapstick comedy. It hurts, so we laugh b/c if we don’t the despair can overwhelm us.
::golf clap::
Well I live in Cedar Rapids and watched a new friend of mine lose all fives years of her new adult life and she stilled laughed at this. If all you can do is mope, how can you move forward?
For those who are ignorant, Cedar Rapids had the epic flood this year that was dubbed a 750-1000 year flood because this shit just doesn’t happen. Well it did and we got over it. You chose to live in an area that is known for hurricanes. So yes when something that looks like it came out of a cartoon happens and gets caught on camera, yes we will laugh. I refuse to deal with a guilt trip over something you knew would happen eventually.
I have all the sympathy in the world but I won’t feel guilty over a picture and a caption on PK.
Don’t worry, we laughed at your flood too. Don’t live in a town that has “rapids” in the name!
this house is in Gilchrist, east of Galveston on the Bolivar peninsula. I live in Houston, I survived Ike with only moderate damage to my home. I have family and friends with severe damage, and still, this picture made me laugh. I think it sums things up quite nicely. None of us expected the storm to be what it was, and it kicked our asses. WTF? exactly… It’s not mocking anyone’s pain – you people need to get over yourselves. Focus on revocery and rebuilding. Laughter is good medicine. I’m down here IN the mess, I think I’m qualified to say so.
I’m down here too. Our beach house is gone and we were without power for 6 days. It’s not time to laugh about our misfortune…wait a few months for us to recover and the bodies to get cold before people start laughing about it.
No ones laughing about your misfortune. Quite the opposite, they are laughing about someone elses (relative) good fortune. They are laughing at the idea that despite all that devastation, one home can survive when the rest of the city has been swept away. Combine that with a funny caption, and you have yourself a lol.
You need to do the research on this house. It’s gutted and if you saw the pictures of the house before the hurricane you would know that it was on pylons (those stilts) and now no longer is. The house will have to be demolished. Where is the good fortune?
Are you alive?
I do believe this picture was taken AFTER the hurricane… and it looks as if the pylons are still there. If they weren’t, the house would be in a couple of pieces.
Sweetie READ what I wrote. Of course the picture was taken AFTER the hurricane. What I said was if you saw what the house looked like BEFORE the hurricane you would see that there were pylons that it was standing on. It is no longer standing on the pylons. The house is uninhabitable. It will have to be demolished. Houses in this area can not be built on the ground this close to the Gulf because of storm surges.
Here’s a quick way to know if a house is on pylons….you would be able to see them…….. Can you see the pylons on this house Leah?
TC00, I don’t know what picture you’re looking at, but the one above definitely shows pilings (NOT pylons), otherwise known as stilts. Go to the link someone provided above and look at all three pictures — you will also see that the house is still off the ground.
I live in Kentucky, and some people are still without power from good ol’ Ike. It’s kinda crazy.
To those who suffer: I live in an area plagued with tornadoes/high winds, flooding and destructive ice storms and I never hear anyone go “OMG! I can’t belive this happened! Poor me!”
I couldn’t believe the way some people acted over Katrina/New Orleans. Much of the city lies Below Sea Level! If you live on a coast this is part an parcel of your decision to live on the coast. “Poor me?” Bullshit.
FINALLY someone with some common sense. Thank you.
That’s just it, though. We’re NOT saying “Poor me.” We’re not waiting around for FEMA to get its act together, we’re not lounging around in hotels on the government’s dime while ignoring houses that can be repaired. We’re getting back into those houses and starting the repairs even without FEMA money and the vast majority of us are sweating it out in homes without any power rather than moving into an air-conditioned hotel that just isn’t home. The ones who ARE staying in hotels are mostly the ones whose homes are so damaged that they are currently uninhabitable.
Bwahh!? A hurricane?
A lot of ruined lives in this picture of the lost homes of Galveston swept away by Hurricane Ike. Grim, not funny.
STFU!
Why would you come to this site if you don’t have the sense of humor to handle it?
I used to live there. I have family and friends who are in some bad situations right now. I laughed, so did they. Change your perspective! Being grim and unhappy won’t help anything.
I lol’d.
I saw this earlier today and thought it was photoshopped. It’s on CNN right now! LOL
“A single home stands in what used to be a neighborhood in Gilchrist, Texas.
Pam and Warren Adams, rebuilt the home in 2006 after it had been destroyed by Hurricane Rita in 2005….they hired a contractor to build a structure that could withstand a Category 5 hurricane and watched over the process to assure it was done right.”
We should name tornadoes. Next one comes along, I’m calling it Reiser.
I was thinking Marth, personally.
This is a funny caption and impressive pic despite the destruction. No offense to you guys but if you had building codes and the houses were built to them this would not be the only house left standing. Cyclone Larry hit the town I live in Innisfail Australia it blew over a few buildings but nobody was injured and it was the same size storm as Hurricane Katrina which killed who knows how many people and destroyed an entire city. And Hurricane Ike was about the same size as a small Cat 3 Cyclone here which only really ever do flood damage and that’s it very rarely do they blow the roof off a house let alone the whole thing falls down. In the official description is says telephone wires down and damage to caravans. I know it’s not the peoples fault it is the government for a lack of standards and emergency planning but seriously, this amount of destruction for that strength storm is just totally and I mean TOTALLY Unnessasary, it does not need to occur.
It’s not that there are no building codes, it’s that the codes weren’t updated before most of those houses were built. Also, the last storm that went through Galveston only knocked over a few houses.
As for Katrina, you clearly do not understand that it wasn’t the hurricane that killed everyone with winds. The levees, which the city knew were not going to hold and had been TOLD to fix repeatedly, finally failed. What happens when the levees fail and half the city is built on ground that is actually below sea level? Yes, it floods. The flooding is what killed so many.
One other thing about Ike that you may not have gotten on your news from the far side of the globe is that the storm threw CAT4 winds. The storm itself was only rated a strong CAT2, not even a CAT3. The winds it threw were going at CAT4 speeds but the storm lacked the right pressure to be upgraded.
Now, if you want to compare your Larry to a Cat2 hurricane that is throwing CAT4 winds, you go right ahead.
The pic is amusing, yes. Standing around saying “We’re all better than YOU because WE didn’t lose our houses” is not.
I’m not standing around saying we are better than you. I’m saying it was totally unnessasary that all the destruction happened. I know it was the levies that went that’s what I ment by standards. And on your side of the world you obviously don’t get up to date news either if you don’t think Larry was strong or dangerous.
The sustained wind speeds of Ike when it hit Texas were actually equivalent to an average Category 4 tropical cyclone, but only a high level Category 2 hurricane.
Larry was still the stronger storm, but not by as much as you think.
and your right, I looked it up again. The original site I looked at must have had the wrong wind strenghts for Hurricanes listed. I just looked at the Saffir- Simpson Hurricane scale. I stand corrected on that one.
Sorry I didn’t mean anybody was injured in Larry there were a few minor injuries I ment nobody was killed.
and I apologise for bad grammar and spelling. It’s been a looooong day.
Well, there goes the neighborhood
As a Houstonian I feel like I should be offended, but I lol’d.
Definate comment win!
That was Ike showing you what Tina went through!
I had to evacuate from Hurricane Ike, but my house is perfectly fine, save for a few fallen fence boards and lost shingles (of course, my house is pretty new and was just far enough from the shore). Ike was a Categoray 2, but it only did this much damage because it was so big, and there was a huge storm surge.
Anyway, the picture is funny. It doesn’t even need a caption!
HAHAHA I lost everything I own in the world and two of my neighbors DIED!! HAHAHAHAHAHA You’re right! it IS funny!
a) your fault for living close to the shore in a hurricane zone
b) your neighbors’ fault for not evacuating
c) the devastation isn’t funny, it’s the caption. idiot.
So why are you on a website that makes fun of life?
I guess when he said he lost everything he owned he didn’t mean his computer too.
Condolences.
Too bad we weren’t making fun of the people that died and the loss of all your possessions (save internet and computer access?) but instead laughing at the prospect of a house that’s still standing after all of that.
Guess we’ll just need to make a separate lol for that purpose.
It IS Gilchist Texas thanks to Ike (we no like). Not photoshop unfortunately… Jaust as amany refugees as from Katrina and only half of Houston has electricity back…
Just because no one else posted it-
“The things
you say,
your purple prose just gives you away.
The things you say-
You’re unbelievable!”
I found an article online about the one house that still stands and there IS a picture of this house there… OMFG!
http://www.zillowblog.com/one-gilchrist-tx-house-defies-hurricane-ike/2008/09/
Yay! Another shot from an angle showing that the house is still on its pilings.
Yeah, this kinda trumps TC00′s argument, here.
I doubt the honesty of several people who post in threads like this. Does no one else find it to be a crazy coincidence that whenever some tragedy happens about 25% of the responses were “so totally there omg”.
Methinks a lot of people just want to play devil’s advocate…
Odds are, someone they knew pointed them here and they posted specifically because they were there. Of course, I’m an optimist, even when it comes to the internet.
for what it’s worth, I posted the pic on my facebook so I could laugh at it every day. I STILL think it’s funny. If you’re down here in this god awful mess and yoU’ve lost your sense of humor, then you really do have my pity. At least I can still lol. I may be looking at my sorry ass neighbors wandering around in their backyard in their dirty tidy whiteys through their crappy fallen down fence that I know they’ll never fix, my inlaws are still waiting to find out how to replace a car and a roof squished by a 100 year old oak, several of my co-workers are STILL waiting on power, my commute time has doubled, but AT LEAST I CAN LOL!! so there. phbbbbt. WTF, Indeed.
Hundreds of thousands of people here still don’t have power – and traffic sucks ass right now! Fortunately we got our power back about a week after the storm. And for the record, this is a real picture and was taken after Ike.
I believe that is Boliver right down in Texas on the coast (I think someone asked). One of the main hits by Ike. We used to have a beach house down there when I was a kid (Emerald Beach II) It is a beach community, you get there from Galveston via ferry.
Uhhh ACTUALLY… i dont think its photoshopped.. I think the house washed back with reciding water from further away (obviously only being washed off its foundation by water)
some people just talk way 2 much
This reminds me of a picture of the devastation left by the Hiroshima Bombing. In that picture, there was also a single house standing.
Irony seems to win out.
That was Kansas and this is OZ.
i guess there wasn’t anybody in that house, so the hurricane left it. maybe T-Rex hurricane, only sees you if you move