Original - A lone house standing amongst the numerous sites of houses that were destroyed in
Gilchrist, Texas by
Hurricane Ike. On September 13, 2008, Gilchrist was devastated by the storm, which completely destroyed all but few homes. The coastline along Gilchrist, once a straight line, became jagged and desolate, permanently altered by Ike's turbulent storm tide. Of the 1,000 buildings in Gilchrist, 99.5% of them were knocked off of their foundations.
Reason
Aside from the obvious encyclopedic value, in my opinion the image is interesting and high-quality.
I'm not interested in the specific pieces of debris but rather the extent of the damage. The alternative linked above conveys the scale much better, but unfortunately it's too small.--
HereToHelp(
talk to me)13:52, 11 January 2009 (UTC)reply
Also try looking under the house, and in pools of water. It's the little speckles that are the noise, and IMO it looks more like noise than shingle patterns...shingles would probably appear in neat rows. In addition, the file name, "File:Hurricane Ike Gilchrist damage edit.jpg" indicates that an edit was performed from the original, "File:Hurricane Ike Gilchrist damage.jpg". Could you say how the image was edited in the image summary (see the other versions section of
File:Amsterdam_photochrom2.jpg, for example). Thanks, SpencerT♦C22:12, 11 January 2009 (UTC)reply