first hand west end report!

[WestEndAngler]

II drove the boat down to harborwalk today escorted by a Harris county sheriff officer, we made our way down the icw towards greens cut. The boats in harborwalk were beat up, a few have listed onto there side some have sunk, in particular a brand new 60' azimut! The houses along the icw on the way to greens all made it. The barrier has been really beaten up. No debris crossing west bay, trees were spotted and portions of decks seen floating in lake Como as we entered pirates. All the homes along the bay front lost there decks, boat houses for the most part are intact. Unfortunately all homes were covered by 5 feet of water across pirates. Boats are littering the area jet skis in pools debris everywhere. Basically its everyone's first floor all spread out everywhere. I personally have a new lawn ornament. A nice. 21' old school ranger bay boat lodged 3 feet off the ground in between 3 palm trees. Shingle damage everywhere.... Many homeowners in pirates left boats in there slings. Because of this, boats are sunk left and right, t tops are sheared off, engine cowlings chewed apart, boats houses buckled.... Some boats ended up in the owners downstairs. I am currently without power and on my phone, I will post pictures and a 30min video of the area.

Jamaica beach in particular beachcomber estates, received 4 feet of water, downstairs were all destroyed.... The front row, only 1 house made it the rest are gone. If you have any questions please PM me.

http://www.fishwestend.com/index.php?option=com_picaweb&Itemid=95

Thanks,

Coe

[TTU Wader]

Thanks for the report Coe I really appreciate it. Have heard many stories about the west end and its good to finally hear a first hand report. Im thinking about coming home this weekend to help my parents out. Do you have any idea when they will be letting people check out their homes?

[WestEndAngler]

Well, they are still in a recovery mode, going door to door etc... That is the reason for the media blackout. It was confirmed by the Sherrif officer I was with, the Federal Government doesn't want to show another Katrina disaster... I heard that 60% of the homes on Bolivar didn't make it... I am uploading the photos now and will put a link up here in a second. As far as letting people back on the island... 2 reports say it will be a long time... Resident's belongings are everywhere its one gigantic garage sale!

[sirkle]

Wow. It's amazing how some of the structures withstood the wind and waves, and others did not. You'll see someone's dock completely washed away, then you have a clay pot and a garden hose still on the spool just sitting there next to a boat that floated into the yard and bashed into the house over and over. Crazy stuff. I wanna see some pics of Bailey's hood down on Jamaica Beach.

Good stuff.

[WestEndAngler]

Wow. It's amazing how some of the structures withstood the wind and waves, and others did not. You'll see someone's dock completely washed away, then you have a clay pot and a garden hose still on the spool just sitting there next to a boat that floated into the yard and bashed into the house over and over. Crazy stuff. I wanna see some pics of Bailey's hood down on Jamaica Beach.

Good stuff.



Ask and you shall receive...

http://forum.fishwestend.com/showthread.php?t=263

[Race1Mopar]

Those pictures are great. Thank you, it gives us some perspective of the damage in the neighborhood.

If anyone else gets close I would love some pictures in Jamaica Beach also. I have a house in Jamaica Beach on Jolly Roger across from the Wildlife Preserve, a two story just past where the flat water ends and the ditch begins. My dad has a house on Ponce DeLeon, second house from the end on the left. Just in case you get the opportunity to snap a few pictures it would be greatly appreciated.

Stay safe,
Joe

[Robalo]

Brothers made it down yesterday-bottom of his house is trashed-1' of mud, that crummy sailboat that was always tied up in boat basin is in his front yard along with 2-3' high pile of wood/deckings/trash. He's at 4416 (?) Jamaica Cove-they could not make it down street to my house at 16535 Jamaica Cove due to huge debris pile at bend where road always floods (especially after the "improvement" where they opened up the drains- stupid!) My Bronco is in ditch between my house and neighbor's (totaled), my little bay boat is gone. My parents house (off Flamingo-on Sandpiper) has no bottom left at all and their car is in front yard and totaled. All houses had 8' of water in downstairs-brother said way damage is, it was from surge, not slow rising because too many downstairs areas (walls) are just plain gone. Boats and jet skis piled up all over, fridges floating in canals. Major mess and lots of damage. Local Barney Fife is even turning away older looking folks in nice cars yesterday because they weren't Jam Beach IDs on TDLs, so even if from Houston and second house-that old man cop turned you away-good and bad-obviously some were folks trying to check out their home. Boats sunk all over-many upside down in lifts. Siding damage is prevalent. Some houses gone-one on Flamingo about halfway down from Bob Smith and Main canal is just pilings. Very sad and with Mayor Thomas and LeBlanc-we may not get back down for awhile due to their stupidity regarding traffic flow-just evidences their complete ignorance as to folks wanting to minimize mold/mildew damage.:(

[WestEndAngler]

I hear that, if you need a ride to your house I would be willing to take a few people to remove matresses etc. via water... PM me *highly classified mission :D*

:rofl:

[Moonpie]

Made a boat recon of Tit'lum-Tat'lum today. Took pictures.
Then went over by Treasure Island. The Policia Boat told me to leave.
I did. :rofl:

[WestEndAngler]

That's why you need to take along my work colleague, he can get you on and past police no problem. He is a marine sherif officer :D

[crappieman32175]

I drove all the way to the pass today and let me tell you it is a mess down there.

[WestEndAngler]

Jason- any news on how the Pass faired? Any dunes left? I am ready to get back out and gig some flounder! The run has started especially with this cold front...

[crappieman32175]

I think the pass may have changed a little bit the water got about 5' to 6' in my house.

[007]

Coe......we're heading down to Sea Isle on Wednesday when they start letting people back on the island. Are you gonna be there?

[crappieman32175]

I will be going to my house by the pass.

[WestEndAngler]

Man with work and night school I won't be able to make it down there until at least Thursday evening or Friday...

[007]

Coe......we're heading down to Sea Isle on Wednesday when they start letting people back on the island. Are you gonna be there?

I just got a good google pic of my buddy's house and it looks just like it did when we boarded it up. The bbq pit that we layed down in front of the house is still in the same spot. There is no sign of any debris anywhere on his lot but there is at his neighbors' next door. We'll see Wednesday.

[WestEndAngler]

Mike, when you get back post up your report and photos... Hope everything turns out ok!

[007]

Mike, when you get back post up your report and photos... Hope everything turns out ok!

After watching all of the traffic yesterday we decided to wait until tomorrow.

[WestEndAngler]

Yah, were going tomorrow, going to run the house on a couple of generators... :D Where are you going to be? Sea Isle?

[007]

Yah, were going tomorrow, going to run the house on a couple of generators... :D Where are you going to be? Sea Isle?

Roger that!! 4th house down on Matagorda on the North side of the canal.

[007]

Went down to Sea Isle yesterday and stopped at Beach Bum Bailey's 1st. He's got quite a bit of work in front of him...the down stairs living quarters are toast. Went on down to Sea Isle to inspect the damage and to my surprise the whole subdivision fared pretty good with the exception of the bay front homes. Got to my buddy's house to find very little damage. His top deck of the boat stall was missing one rail and that's it. We took all of the pics with a disposable camera and will post them up when we get the disk back. He even had power. According to the watermark on tha back door he got 6' of water. After all of the clean up I managed a 22" red on a new penny gulp.

[WestEndAngler]

:needpics: lol come on 007 you shoulda stopped by my place! We were slinging sledges all thats left of my downstairs are studs!

[007]

:needpics: lol come on 007 you shoulda stopped by my place! We were slinging sledges all thats left of my downstairs are studs!

I'll email you the redfish pic so that you can re-size it then post it. PM me your email address.

[007]

:needpics: Lol come on 007 you shoulda stopped by my place! We were slinging sledges all thats left of my downstairs are studs!

don't ever try to hit me with a sledge hammer!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WestEndAngler]

lol :D e-mail them to pictures@fishwestend.com

[007]

Went down to the west end to try to salvage some lumber for Coach Law's camp and ran into BeachBumBailey at his house. He was having some fun on a bobcat clearing the MASSIVE pile of debris from around his house. From the 4 days since I'd made the trip to Sea Isle I could tell that all of the trash piles were getting smaller. There are more and more people getting down there to clean up and get things back in order. I still can't believe that my buddy had power at his house. Water looked great and we were kicking ourselfs for not bringing our fishing gear, but we were on a mission that was pretty sucessful I might add.

[2112]

Can I drive to the pass yet? I can only guess the road, Blue Water hwy is washed out at places.

So far the only place Ive launched is dickinson bayou and have run up into the flood gates...Im really wanting badly to launch at that Brazoria county park at SLP.

[WestEndAngler]

You can drive it 2112... Unclehandy said that there are white steaks marking the road, washouts with big drop offs where the road washed away for 4 miles they said you have to go down the beach cause there is no road... Drive slowly do it during the day and stay in between the white stakes, before they put them up a state trooper went into one of the washouts they said... You can make it from Galveston side...

[2112]

Man, thanks for the real time info!
I don't think I can trailer my flounder rig through those conditions, wash-outs but I think I can make it down a 4 mile stretch of beach. I've got a weeks worth of time coming up to be free after this Friday so If you or crappieman want to make a night / gigging trip, conditions permitting I should be all a go.

[WestEndAngler]

We are working to get power restored to our place, but my buddies place in Palm Beach has power so I might be able to crash there and jump aboard... Appreciate the offer and I'm sure Jason (Crappieman) would be down...

[FlatoutFishin]

How'd the development at the Pass fair? I always thought that was the worst place to build.

[coachlaw]

Talkin' about Treasure Island Monte? If so, I didn't go down the canals. There's a lot of damage on the lower levels. Boats left in slings are toast. Roofs damaged and stuff like that, but all in all, they seem to have fared quite well.

[FlatoutFishin]

Talkin' about Treasure Island Monte? If so, I didn't go down the canals. There's a lot of damage on the lower levels. Boats left in slings are toast. Roofs damaged and stuff like that, but all in all, they seem to have fared quite well.


No Sandy, over on the Galveston side on the peninsula. The ones responsible for taking my driving priviledges away from the Rusty Hook on down.

[WestEndAngler]

No Sandy, over on the Galveston side on the peninsula. The ones responsible for taking my driving priviledges away from the Rusty Hook on down.


:mad5::mad5::mad5::mad5: Don't get me started! I use to enjoy that drive...:mad5::mad5::mad5::mad5:

[coachlaw]

Didn't mean to hit a nerve there Monte :)

[FlatoutFishin]

:mad5::mad5::mad5::mad5: Don't get me started! I use to enjoy that drive...:mad5::mad5::mad5::mad5:


Don't guess theres a problem now???????

[2112]

:mad5::mad5::mad5::mad5: Don't get me started! I use to enjoy that drive...:mad5::mad5::mad5::mad5:

That exact subject on the exact stretch of beach got me banned for more than a year at the other web site ! I too, am very passionate about that beach and I should just shut-up right now.

[WestEndAngler]

No need to stop... I'm upset they took away our driving rights on the beach but it was bound to happen... I think they should allow it like Jamaica does that on weekends and holidays no driving on beach any other time is okay... Can't tell you what a PITA it is to have to drag 5 surf rods and 20lbs of gear down to the beach when we used to pull up and use the truck as our rod holders... Its also one reason SLP has gotten so crowded...

Don't worry about getting banned... I'm on your side :D I got some pull around this site lol

[WestEndAngler]

Don't guess theres a problem now???????

No... lol no problem... Just mad b/c they took away my nice drive... I used to enjoy cruising from SLP to Rusty Hook on the beach... We used to make that drive grab washed up wood and build bonfires during the winter out there... We'd dig a hole 4' deep and fill it up with firewood anything we could find that would burn nice really...