Monday, February 2, 2009

Last Week

 

Then we took the ferry north from Galveston Island to the Bolivar Peninsula.  The peninsula was an order of magnitude worse.  One house out of a hundred standing.  Rubble where the town of Crystal Beach once stood.  This is not like the damage a tornado leaves.  Hurricanes don’t hit one house and hop over another.  Every building faces the same force.  Twenty miles of devastation.  And this is the sanitized version.  They’ve been cleaning up for four months.