Crystal beach......

Yesterday we went to Crystal beach for the first time since Hurricane Ike. We did not know what to expect. It was practically leveled. They are rebuilding. I thought it would be interesting to post some pictures of when we were there last July and from yesterday so you can see how much was destroyed by the hurricane.


Here is a picture down one of the roads from the place we stayed last July. There were LOTS of houses.
A view from the Beach....you can see all the roof tops and trees

Another view from the beach.....the sand dunes had green vegatation on them, the beach looked big then!

Here are 2 that we took yesterday..........Post Hurricane Ike!

The beach is HUGE now.....the line where the public beach used to start has been moved to the hurrican and land lost (something like that..there is a word for it, I cannot remember what they call it). All that extra beach is where one or 2 rows of homes used to be and now they cannot rebuild there.

All you can see it empty space and telephone/electric poles. From what we saw all the houses were being built higher up off the ground. The roads are still very bumpy. The town is coming back.....it will take time for them. We drove past empty fields that used to be filled with houses and businesses.

If you want to see these pictures bigger just click on the picture itself and you will get just the picture on the page.



I do have pictures from our fun time on the beach yesterday. I will do those in a different post.