one lucky homeowner (after ike)
 

:Oh crap:Oh crap

crazy picture but judging by the damage to the foundation and the likely water damage..I'd say they would have been luckier to have had it washed away. Looking at that picture though, it's amazing people were allowed to build there. I look at ariel views of parts of Florida and wonder the same thing.. It's just a disaster waiting to happen.

well i dont know if hes lucky or pissed off, now he has a semi-fucked up house :)

Not like he's gonna be able to live in it...

Is this a photoshop or is this house made of steel? i mean it doesn't even look like it's made of stone or can one person be so lucky?

naw not photoshop
here is another picture from yahoo with that house

has been on the news aswell

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/2..._storm_ike.jpg

Guy finally has some peace and quiet

Either a very luck guy who still has his house or somebody moved to the beach without knowing it :1orglaugh

Horror :Oh crap

another picture of it
it is near gilchrist tx near Galveston

http://media.monstersandcritics.com/...8868150085.jpg

This is why you shouldn't build houses made of wood.

Did the little piggies not learn from the big bad wolf?

Yeah but where's the damn dog????

Aunty Em....the hurricane landed us right here...

sadly most of the animals that stayed with the people who refused to leave or got left behind are dead

not sure how much lucky he is

wow - ill bet that horse seen a show....

Seabiscuit!

Wizzo! : )

it will be torn down due to damage

That house is on stilts but I don't think it kept it out of the surge water levels

So people are allowed to build right up to the water's edge without a dyke system or anything in place? That's... odd.

Since when is that odd? BEACH HOUSES are called beach houses for a reason.

Usually they're set off the beach a ways, or up an elevation at least.

OMG! :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

that was horrible!

Dont have to worry about those noisy neighbors anymore

Wow that is crazy

that is crazy shit, that house will be torn down, sucks to be all of those peeps

At least there is nobody left to complain about the ugly house paint!

That's a huge damage...:(

Let's rock!

I hope the guy that owns that house is not into religion. we will never hear the end of it from the church nuts.

LOL...Luckily my neighborhood is nowhere near as bad as that, we did lose a few houses to falling trees, but overall we faired well compared to most.

thats crazy

all this house is missing is a for sale sign!!!

and his own private beach!

That's insane !! :warning:helpme

here is a pic from New Orleans East taken just a couple weeks ago....

http://www.cherrylula.com/katrina-damage.jpg

and the awesome part... that is KATRINA damage, the picture was taken right before Hurricane Gustav hit. It still looks like hell over there, since 2005.

"Now Leasing" :1orglaugh

That must be crazy for all of those that lost their houses, you figure that's EVERYTHING gone that they've had and there's nothing to even dig through. At least this guy still has everything he owns sitting there. I wonder what the condition is of the stuff in his house, I wouldn't think it'd be that bad, unless there's some broken windows that let the water flood in. He'll just need to find a ladder to get up into the house now, ha ha ha.

look closely and you can still see the guys car under it .. yikesss... 2x lucky .. wow .. maybe he is some relation to Moses ..

"See Fred? I told you to re-do our foundation last summer when the neighbours were doing theirs. But did you? Noooo... NOW look what happened!"

be a quiet place to have a party!

and that is just messed!!

I am sure after he/she deals with his insurance company, they won't feel so lucky and probably have wished it didn't stand.

Thats EXACTLY what I was thinking. Yea his house maybe be screwed, but at least he still has all of his possessions.

I'm going to call that guy's HOA and complain that the grass needs to be watered - it looks real dry in front there.

Pretty sure most beach houses like that in the area are not actual "homes". They usually seem to be rental units/timeshares and the like - as in no one really lives in them full time.

At least when we had a beach house for a couple weeks near Galveston that was the impression I got.

Still sucks though

such a devastating storm. amazing.