Today was my first day as the new CR Manager for my county. My boss got promoted so I took over for him. I decided to go take a drive to the south part of the county and seeing what was going on down there.
Wow.
Just wow.
The storm aside, this is a unique place. I don't know what all of the large structures are, but I presume that this is where they build offshore oil rigs. I think what I was seeing was offshore rigs in various states of construction and repair. Everything here is on an immense scale.
I wasn't aware how much like LA and FL that this place is. I was looking overhead watching a flock of flamingos fly by. Pelicans and other water birds wheeled overhead. As I was driving along the intracoastal waterway, I saw this:
This guy's been dead a while, and someone propped his jaws open with a beer bottle. No way I just saw that!
This is some real destruction. I won't post all of the pics here...just go look at the album to see them. The Search and Rescue markings on the buidings were pretty chilling and reminiscent of Katrina.
These people are wiped out. Even the ones on stilts got flooded by the 20' storm surge. People said Ike wasn't as bad as they thought it was going to be. I dunno...this was pretty bad. I'll see more of this soon, and post pictures, but for now, I just need to process it and figure out what small thing our team can do (if anything) to help the situation.
More later.
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