A City Destroyed

I didn't take all these photos, but the destruction was so common and so consistent...it didn't matter.
















Bird Baths stay put.















I love this photo, so I messed up the chronology by posting an example of rebuilding. This roof is new. The chimney is new. Things are looking up for this family, as they have a frame for their home.









Generally this is rubble. The rubble was so confounding and stupefying that I felt emotionless. It became part of the landscape.

















This is pretty amazing. The photo on the left was a home. I am not sure how to describe where the home stood, but it did. The items in the branches is fabric related debris from the water covering this entire area.

The smells and the visuals in this beachfront community was impossible to capture on film, digital or not. It just seemed like the ocean had been here for months and it just decided to leave, on it's own accord, and this is the stuff it left behind.



There was a lot to grin about. Honestly, I laughed more than I cried. This was another beachfront community home that likely was fancy enough for these treasured lions to sit on their gates or in front of some southern porch. One can only imagine what the home must have looked like, but we can see that the owners have a great sense of humor.

These lions and a birdbath down the street remained relatively unharmed. They join the bathtubs and sinks that decorate empty lots.


This home was actually in the road. Can you tell from the photo? People have to clean up the mess, but insurance adjusters and FEMA personnel were flagging, tagging and marking homes with information pertaining to their whereabouts. This home moved from the right side of the street, on it's cement foundation, across the street - well nearly across.

We met the owner's son. His home was destroyed, and his Dad is out of town in another home his Dad owns, so the son is in a trailer on the lot where the home was.



This is the back of the home above. It bashed into the home across the street, and it pushed the neighbors off their foundation as well. The home with the roof (on the left) used to sit where the home with the green shingles (right) plowed in.










This is another example of a home on tour. It landed in the middle of a shell station.