bev_vincent ([info]bev_vincent) wrote,
@ 2008-09-17 12:24:00
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Photos
Here are the pictures I took a few hours after the storm passed through. It was still drizzling at the time, hence the occasional spots on the photos.

This one is around the corner and up a cul-de-sac from us. The owner had just taken her dog outside to do its business and went back in a couple of minutes before the tree toppled, narrowly missing their truck. It seems like the "back end" of the storm is what did most of the damage. The restaurants and businesses on piers extending out from the Galveston seawall that were obliterated went after the eye passed through, and the tree we heard falling also went after the eye was past us.



Our back yard was very soggy, and the ditch out front was almost level with the road, but we were in no risk of flooding. We seem to be just high enough to avoid that no matter how bad the storm. A couple of the pictures are of the storm drains at the intersection of two discharge outlets. They looked like miniature whirlpools.



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[info]nick_kaufmann
2008-09-17 05:35 pm UTC (link)
Incredible.

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[info]mariadkins
2008-09-17 05:39 pm UTC (link)
Am glad it wasn't worse.

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[info]bev_vincent
2008-09-17 05:41 pm UTC (link)
It's amazing some of those trees stay up at all -- their root systems are so shallow. I noticed that the pine trees, which have deep roots, tended to snap off at some height above the ground. The one in the neighbor across the road's back yard broke about 15' up from the ground (landing on his garage and sending a limb through the roof that dented his wife's car!). The oaks and other leafy trees simply uprooted and fell over.

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