Friday, September 12, 2008
See this picture? That's the Galveston seawall. It's still not been topped, but the flood waters are already behind it. The only thing it is doing is currently holding back the actual force of the waves. It will do that for a little while longer probably. The building is the Flagship Hotel. This is looking from the west. Can't tell you how many times I've spent the night at this hotel on the OTHER side - the west side are the rooms for the tourists. WE like the east side because they look at out on the water instead of the seawall. Oh the things I've done on those balconies. (Shhhh.)
Right now the water in the Gulf is about 8 feet below the pier that the Flagship is on. The waves are crashing WAY up over the edge and hitting the hotel and pouring back off of the parking lot.
The is the Galveston seawall a couple of hours ago.
These are houses not far down west from where the seawall ends on Galveston. This was taken from a helicopter over the Gulf, looking inland around 3pm.
# posted by Carol : 5:11 PM
