hurricane ike [relocation]

© slight clutter photography

 

This is Andrea' from Kemah. When I met her, she was on the phone with an agent trying to find a place in which she and her family can relocate, a place that took pets and that would allow her family to remain in the same school district.

 

Andrea', a hair stylist, and her family had just leased this house two months ago, and they really felt like they had made it, joyfully telling friends and family that they were just down the street from the water. It was perfect. As Andrea' said it was "so perfect and that's what's devastating." She worries that things will never again be so perfect, that they won't ever again be able to live in their dream home -- having lost so much to flood damage.

 

That's one thing to remember...even when you see images of houses seemingly in tact along the gulf coast...it's not the house that is the heartbreak, so much as it is the loss of all of the memories inside the house. A flood's aftermath can be visually deceptive. The facade is often very misleading as to the destruction inside. Folks in the midwest know that all to well as do we here on the Gulf Coast.

 

Andrea's boyfriend, Brian, has an auto glass company, Coastal Auto Glass. If you live in the area and find yourself needing glass repair, please consider Brian for the job. This family will be needing all the help it can get in the coming months.

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