Post #407740 by Koitiki on Sat, Sep 13, 2008 8:01 PM

Damn. Seeing those first big waves pounding it Friday, it did look inevitable. Still awaiting word on my aunt's beach house on the un-seawalled portion of the island. Has anyone heard anything about Schlitterbahn? I was just at the South Padre location last week, admiring the lovely roof structures and pondering the tiki buildings with no tikis at that location vs. the numerous tikis, but no tiki buildings at the Galveston location. Even though the tikis are mostly the painted variety, it would've been nice to see the two together. Now I'm wondering if residents and clean-up crews will be finding stray tikis in the piles of debris.
Below are a few pics of the roofs at S. Padre. They are obviously missing a lot of thatch from Hurricane Dolly, but the shapes and construction are nice and even looked good underneath. I feel sorry for these folks with 2 out of 3 of their parks hit by hurricanes this summer. It lessens my annoyance about all the dough we shelled out to take the kiddo twice this year.

Interesting that I heard about the Hooters falling into the water several times on the TV news broadcasts, but had to hear about the Balinese here. Even though I pretty much hate ZZ Top, we will still put on "Balinese," and have a tiki drink by the pool to toast the fallen.

[ Edited by: koitiki 2008-09-14 05:24 ]