Comments on: Wtf was THAT?!?!?!?

By: ehw

ehw — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:44:50 +0000

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.

By: idunno

idunno — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:30:14 +0000

i guess there wasn’t anybody in that house, so the hurricane left it. maybe T-Rex hurricane, only sees you if you move

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:11:51 +0000

That was Kansas and this is OZ.

By: Zotarium

Zotarium — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:50:43 +0000

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.

By: hi hello

hi hello — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:12:35 +0000

some people just talk way 2 much

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:20:45 +0000

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)

By: apocrypha

apocrypha — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:34:25 +0000

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.

By: Trey

Trey — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:55:11 +0000

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.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:03:53 +0000

Nah, It’s just the Post-Bush Administration United States.

By: Aussie

Aussie — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:08:53 +0000

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.

By: Aussie

Aussie — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:04:06 +0000

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.

By: gryphonesse

gryphonesse — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:03:36 +0000

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.

By: powerob

powerob — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:11:29 +0000

The house is bolted to the ground. I think the nut to that bolt is in Chengdu, China

By: Yikes

Yikes — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:38:29 +0000

Don’t worry, we laughed at your flood too. Don’t live in a town that has “rapids” in the name!

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:34:14 +0000

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.

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:33:02 +0000

Yeah, this kinda trumps TC00′s argument, here.

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:31:34 +0000

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.

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:26:58 +0000

I was thinking Marth, personally.

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:19:42 +0000

Gilchrist

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:15:45 +0000

They must work with materials blessed by the heavens, then! o_o

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:12:10 +0000

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!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:17:12 +0000

I guess when he said he lost everything he owned he didn’t mean his computer too.

By: Crazy coincidence

Crazy coincidence — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:09:11 +0000

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…

By: Charlie Foxtrot

Charlie Foxtrot — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:36:33 +0000

So why are you on a website that makes fun of life?

By: Kari

Kari — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:06:36 +0000

Yay! Another shot from an angle showing that the house is still on its pilings.

By: Kari

Kari — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:02:47 +0000

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.

By: amyrosebrock

amyrosebrock — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:15:50 +0000

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/

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:51:57 +0000

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.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:42:42 +0000

It’s real, tis a crazy fluke that has been reported on incessantly.

By: DeathWyrmNexus

DeathWyrmNexus — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:42:04 +0000

Scotty’s ancestors invent Shielding and live in TX. News at 11.

By: TC00

TC00 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:32:45 +0000

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?

By: TC00

TC00 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:26:58 +0000

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.

By: Kari

Kari — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:46:25 +0000

Thank you!

By: Kari

Kari — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:54:24 +0000

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.

By: fillerbunny

fillerbunny — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:37:19 +0000

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!”

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:29:27 +0000

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.

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:27:42 +0000

::golf clap::

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:25:36 +0000

Wouldn’t the fact that the house is sitting on pylons hint that there is no basement…?

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:23:31 +0000

Ditto.

By: i'm a total dick

i'm a total dick — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:00:02 +0000

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.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:36:58 +0000

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.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:24:51 +0000

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.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:22:23 +0000

Construction by photoshop methinks. Still though a funny pic/caption.

By: L R-T

L R-T — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:58:11 +0000

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…

By: hmm

hmm — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:58:16 +0000

HAHAHA I lost everything I own in the world and two of my neighbors DIED!! HAHAHAHAHAHA You’re right! it IS funny!

By: Marshy

Marshy — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:28:50 +0000

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!

By: Jane St.Clair

Jane St.Clair — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:08:43 +0000

Are you alive?

By: PiMan

PiMan — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:40:43 +0000

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.

By: J

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:56:28 +0000

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.

By: J

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:48:35 +0000

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.