THEN AND NOW - Hurricane Ike

On September 13, 2008, our world was rocked by a monster hurricane.

One subdivision in our town (Holiday Beach) was hit to the extreme.

Nearly every home was either badly damaged or completly gone.

Below is a shot of one street - no houses at all!

All the space between the highway and the Gulf was licked clean by the hungry monster.

But now, three and one-half years (42 months later), the homes are coming back - rising from the dead, so to speak.

The shots below show the same views as right after the storm.

This is a shot in the same direction as picture #1 above.

This is the same street, from the other end.

This is the same view as the second photo above. Now, the Gulf isn't visible behind the homes.

And this is the way it is throughout the Peninsula! New buildings replacing the empty sand.