My family managed to make it back to Galveston on Monday, September 22, ahead of the official opening of Galveston Island on Wednesday, September 24. They came home to a royal mess. The town stunk, debris and sludge everywhere, including up the second story of both Tina's and The Admiralty on the Strand.
The official report from teh National Weather Service is that the bay side of the island saw a 13 ft. storm surge and the seawall side saw 14 foot. Whew!
The Admiralty was the biggest mess for some reason and I really regret not downloading more photos from my sisters camera, as they still have no power and no Internet to send me images. It took several days to clean out the stores and my sister's house in Fish Village had to be gutted as well.
My parents condo on the East End fared ok, but got an inch or two of water that will still require them to move out for repairs. At least they have electricity and A/C.
They really miss the news, so I call them and fill them in on things like the curfew being 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. and the fact that the Dow dropped more than 700 points today, the biggest drop in history.
My Dad sits on his balcony and watches 65 ft. boats being hauled out of the bay by their stern and thanks God he sold his sail boat a year earlier. Everyone has met up with insurance folks and cleaning crews and are ready to do repairs, but both stores are empty, waiting for the property owners, GPM, Inc., to come and tear out and rebuild.
No word when that will happen, but we hope soon, everyone is ready to get back to work.
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