Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:01:43 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:28:13 GMT Content-length: 3084
Here is a picture of some condos near our hotel. Note the upper left unit, which was blown completely away, leaving only its stove behind, dangling by its electrical cord (see blowup).
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The storm flooded lots of low-lying areas, and took down almost all of the foliage on the island. Here's a pickup truck turned amphibious. Which way is up? We later saw a guy paddling a surfboard through the parking lot, trying to retrieve stuff from this truck. Lots of roads, especially those by the shore, were completely washed away, and there wasn't any running water on our part of the island for four days.
Here's our hotel, which was about 100 feet from the ocean. The waves washed away pretty much everything on the first floor. We were on the third floor, in the third room from the right. Note the sky peeking through where our roof should be. We'd left some of our stuff in the room when we abandoned the hotel to go to the shelter, and when we got back and saw this, we weren't optimistic about its condition. However, it turned out to be fine, if a bit muddy.
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Here's the C-130 that airlifted us off the island, five days after the hurricane. Not many people go on a C-130 on their honeymoon, huh?
All in all, an experience that we definitely won't forget.
jdean@cs.washington.edu