Photo: David J. Phillip-Pool/Getty Images
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, the photograph above was taken of a single house that was left standing in the middle of a field of debris and water. Not a single other house or structure as far as the camera could see was left standing, and yet, here is this house, almost 100% intact.
I guess it’s just one of those weird phenomenon that happen that nobody has a logical explanation for. But man, is this one great photo.
someone has superpowers?
God!
Yes?
Dad, quit feeding them on.
OMGROFL
Respect thy father, JC.
Respect him?!?! FEAR HIM!!!!
why fear something that’s not there?
I’m right here, dumbass.
HEHE!!! Too funny!
shutup jew!
Come on guys just chill out.
So what? You could only save one house?
Out of all the houses you see here, this is the only one that prayed for protection.
So I told you to leave it alone!
…but the house used to have an address of Houston Texas. When the water receded, it had settled in Galveston… the front of the house not facing the Gulf…
Uh… no. The house was built in that spot. This is on Bolivar peninsula that got destroyed by Ike. This was also the only home there engineered and built to sustain a category five hurricane. It just proves the old adage “you pay more for quality.” Quit the stupid urban legend crap about it moving from Houston.
Where on earth did you hear that?
That’s some of the most retarded **** I’ve read all day.
Wow, its obviously a joke. I dont even think this person was trying to troll this thread but succeeded in trolling anyways. His comment could’ve been the most retarded thing I read all day until I read the replies.
*groan* Is it dark up there?
GOD had something to do with this :-)
yeah–maybe somebody’s god was in on this–but not in a good way.
God! GOD!
If anything this is yet MORE evidence that there is no god.
People built that house, a person designed it to withstand the environmental factors NATURE could throw at it.
It’s probably one of the most disrespectul and stupid and rediculous things to say about such a tragedy.
If a god truly did “spare” this house, then why? and why did that same god KILL so many other people and DESTROY every other house in the area?
Get a life and live in the real world, take credit for the good things you do and give credit for the good things other people do.
Why don’t you get a life and stop freaking out over people who just try and have a little hope in there lives
stop trying to tell other people how to live their lives and go live your own
You do realize you should be taking your own advice, right Eddie?
‘GOD had something to do with this :-)’
Yeah, he sent a f***ing hurricane.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!
I will piss myself laughing if the owner is gay or an atheist.
to be honest, if there was a God, i have a feeling He would be pretty accepting of gays. Since you cant choose your orientation, He would have had to have made you that way…
@ira, you’re gay, oh and a shitcunt.
hahahahaha
It’s photoshopped anyway.
ASSHOLE
I’m sorry, I just had to say it. Any time there is a cool picture, someone will say it’s photohopped.
“gay”? “shitcunt”? How old are you, Boob Biter? These threads should make you answer an eighth grade level math problem before posting a comment in order to filter out the ignorrant.
It always amazes me the things that people feel so free to say when they feel they are anonymous. My grandfather used to say if everyone had to wear a nametag saying their first and last name….then you could say…oh, BOB SMITH (or whoever) was the jerk that cut me off, or said idiotic things. Anonymity is never good. I am not judging because I know they will be judged in the end.
Even Satan believes in god.
Ive been there! My friend-girl Peaches used to hook and sell dope out of that house.. I can’t believe it made it, good for Peaches. thanks jesus.
You are very welcome. :)
Photoshopped
afraid not! I used to live on Galveston and I know many people that live in the area. I have eyewitness confirmation that this is the real deal!
There’s always one person who claims “photoshopped” I could take a picture of the nail polish on my toes and someone would claim it’s photoshopped.
Who the hell cares? Photoshopped or not it’s an interesting picture.
It’s a joke you noob.
No, jokes are funny. The whole “photoshopped” thing stopped being funny after every moron on the internet started doing it.
Granted. Still, the idiots who don’t understand sarcasm also need to be ridiculed.
Sarcasm, the lowest form of wit.
All hail sarcasm
shouted the ignorant boy.
This house was owned by people who lost their house in Rita. They rebuilt with the instructions that the new house be able to survive a class 5 hurricane. It almost did.
If you know costal houses, they’re all up on stilts by law. The house itself survived the hurricane and the 15 foot fall when the stilts gave out.
take a closer look, Shiroi, the stilts are intact.
It’s the power of JESUS!!!
JESUS SAVED THEIR HOUSE.
Sure, he totally fucked over everyone else living anywhere around there, but because Jesus loves everyone he decided to not destroy a house!
Thanks Jesus. You’re so awesome.
My awesomeness Is unlimited. I thank you.
This guy must be kicking himself in the ass now. He spent a lot of money to have this house engineered and constructed to withstand a category 5 but now his house is worth shit until the neighborhood rebuilds (if ever).
I don’t know about that. Just repave the road in front of the house. A lot of people would kill to have waterfront property and no neighbors ;).
I have to fully agree with you there!! I know I would kill for that kind of location without the hassles of dealing with other people………
SATAN!!!
wouldn’t it be grand if it were the only house with insurance?
or you know, without, whether or not you like irony.
First off, I am a devout christian.
Now that that’s out of the way, God and Jesus did NOT save this house.
Science and logic saved this house.
Now stop raving about it already, the house was built to survive a hurricane and it did. Quit spouting off “God did it! God did it!” at every good thing you see, you look like a complete idiot and are making the rest of us look bad. This was caused by human ingenuity, nothing more.
SHUT UP YOU GOD BOTHERING TWAT.GOD IS AN ASSHOLE. FULL STOP,SIMPLE AS THAT.IF HE WASNT HE WOULD HAVE SAVED THE REST OF THE HOMES. EATHER HES AN ASSHOLE FOR LETTING SHIT LIKE THIS HAPPEN OR THE WHOLE BIBLE THING IS BULLSHIT AND GOD HAS NO POWER TO HELP ANYONE. YOU CHOOSE WHICH.
I have a question. If god created the universe, who created god? Some super god? If so why aren’t we worshipping supergod and who made supergod? Some mega super god? …etcetera.
And Roy, obviously god destroyed new orleans because it was a den of sin!
this is quite a stupid comment. the same can be said about the theory of no god. in fact it makes much more sense if you’re talking about evolution. theoretically the universe evolved out of a ball of random shit in space? where did the random shit come from?
at least god is based on faith, therefore you can assume that he is beyond the constraints of a beginning/end.
Don’t tell me I’m an idiot for questioning your doctrines. I get people asking me why I am an athiest all the time. I have the same right. I was merely pointing out that the bible does not explain this at all.
Also, learn more about science. I have read the bible and gone to church. I have also read ‘The Blind Watchmaker’ by Richard Dawkins (which I highly recommend) and learnt a fair bit about the theory behind science (logic, experiments and such). I imagine my view is far more balance than yours.
George, your comment is based on a logical fallacy. The same cannot be said of a “theory” of no god. The idea of a god isn’t “theoretical”, and the idea of no god is based on scientific findings combined with a related lack of evidence from the “god exists” camp.
“at least god is based on faith, therefore you can assume that he is beyond the constraints of a beginning/end.”
It’s beyond any constraints, because you have faith in ANY made up idea and claim it’s true. Assumptions are for fools.
The burden of proof lies on whom makes a claim. You claim God is real, what is your evidence?
The bible lacks accountability since it is a second hand account of a second hand account.
Seriously weird lol f***ed if i know how it standing >:3
engineering.
I think all of you need to get a life over this debate of god or no god. was a simple picture of a house that survived and you people turn it into some theological debate on the existance of god. now who’s the moron? funny how everyone has the answers and the rest of the world is idiots. but yet not a single one can remedy the worlds issues……they only talk more shit.
The comments was the most entertaining part of this website. Stop your whining.
If you think our comments are pointless and we should go and get a life, then why did you not just ignore them and get on with your life? It’s because the comments had an impact with you and you felt the need to get involved.
None of us have said we can remedy the worlds problems, THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT. Nobody can, especially not an invisible man who’s made a list of things we’re not allowed to do, and if we do any of them we’re going to die and go to hell and burn and suffer and hurt and feel pain and be tortured for all of eternity….
but he loves us…
BS
Life is real, things you can see, touch, feel, smell, hear, and interact with.
Faith isn’t needed in the year 2008, we already have a scientific if not common sensical explaination for everything we ACTUALLY need to know, we don’t need to be pacified by some quick “cover all bases” answer like: “God did it?”
If you don’t want to get involved, then never come to this page ever again, I don’t mind. I can get on with my life just fine without you.
See ya!
Welcome to the Internet buddy.
One word, PHOTOSHOP!
Is there an echo???
Is there an echo???
Americans fail at building houses
Yeah did they never read the 3 little pigs. House of straw/wood = fail, House of bricks = win
That house was made of wood. It’s the big bad wolf you’re thinking of, not Katrina.
LMAO!!
You know, it looks sort of like a doll house, but I couldn’t really say, since there’s nothing to judge scale by. This might just be someone’s toy.
First I want to say something to Sam Skeptic; You, sir are an idiot and a complete jerk. Please refrain from ever making public comments again. I only wish I could tie you to a tree during the next Cat 4 Hurricane. Moron. Please continue reading.
My Dad’s buddy was one of this guy’s neighbors. When dad’s buddy went to inspect his property, he couldn’t find it. “Is this my pile of rubble, or is it that one over there?” But buddy took a picture of this house from ground level, but basically the same picture. Incredible. One of my mom’s friends had a friend in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi and her area looked the same after Katrina. Sad, sad, sad. I’ve got to get the hell out of Miami, before my neighborhood looks like this.
I can sympathize with you there….. Thas about like us here in Okla with the May 3rd 1999 tornado that hit and wiped out half of Moore Ok only to rebuild and have it wiped out again 4 yrs later….. TIME TO MOVE!!! Shouldn;t be hard…. OUR HOUSES HAVE WHEELS!!!! (lol)
Dude. The guy wasn’t shitting all over you. He was just attempting to make a joke (a poor one I’ll admit).
photoshopped
MSPainted
Thats one i never hear….
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WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?!!!
BECAUSE HE’S AN IDIOT LARI!
WHAT!?!
The owner of this house had it “hurricane-proofed”. He paid the builder to upgrade the structure so that it could withstand hurricane winds.
ROFL PWN’d!
Here’s how much God had to do with it… see the empty space to the left of the house in the picture? THAT was my mom’s CHURCH. Now count about 9 streets down. That’s the vicinity of the Pastor’s house.
GOD had nothing at all to do with that house standing. There are about 9 houses left on the penninsula, and all of them were built with giant concrete pylons and the latest and greatest techniques for withstanding water and wind damage from hurricanes.
SCIENCE had EVERYTHING to do with that house standing.
god probably laughed.
Lol
Saucy McFoodlefist, Professional, was a grand old man from Pollokshields, with eyes of pale blue irradiated with dark blue—the loveliest eyes I’ve seen. In the time before becoming a professional, Saucy McFoodlefist led a wild, vagabond-like life spiced by absinthe and hashish. Saucy McFoodlefist, Professional, Libertine, was never married. His chief reasoning for never binding his destiny to another was that “a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.”
Later in life, Saucy McFoodlefist again returned to his pre-Professional ways. In Saucy McFoodlefist’s view, “deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man,” and most of his professional life was spent in this fashion.
In the view of the Earl of Rochester, “The only things about which Saucy McFoodlefist, Professional knows nothing are those which he believes himself to be expert: the rules of the dance, the French language, good taste, the way of the world, savoir vivre. It is only his comedies which are not funny, only his philosophical works which lack philosophy—all the rest are filled with it; there is always something weighty, new, piquant, profound. He is a well of knowledge”
shopped!!
There was an episode of Star Trek: TNG where this entire planet was obliviated except for one plot of land and a house, everything else was desert. Either way, an old couple lived there, and as it turns out, this immortal god like being had killed the entire race of the people that destroyed the planet, not just the attackers, but the entire race, and his wife was dead, so his house and plot of land were manufactured in his mind so that he could keep living with the love of his life. He was so heartbroken when she died, maybe this is what happened here?
That was the one where the Enterprise responds to a distress call from Rana IV, a Federation colony that is under attack from an unknown alien ship. When they arrive, they find the entire surface of the planet destroyed, save for a single house and two occupants? That was a good one.
I believe that was a voyager episode Kyle
crap i meant DS9
Yeah, I remember that episode. Season 3 Episode 3 – The Survivors.
Incredible …
Obviously, many of you do not follow the news.
This house is NOT photoshopped – those who claim it is
are obviously not informed (or just plain idiots). I’m a
Native Houstonian, have endured every hurricane,
including Ike, and have been to this area afterwards.
This photo is real – I’m not sure if the house remains
because of Jesus or God or any other higher power,
but it is there because the owners had the builder
ensure the house would resist Cat 5 winds.
And for those who claim this is ’shopped, let’s hope
you dont have to deal with a hurricane, because it’s
obvious you’ve not.
If anyone had done some research, they would have found an article explaining how this guy spent a whole bunch of extra money fixing the foundation and preparing it for a class 5 hurricane. Looks like his money paid off.
i wish that were my house so when everybody came back to look at the damage, they would all call me “asshole” under my breath while i drank beer on my porch.
I would just like to point out that it was me who caused this event. God had nothing to do with it. It really pisses me off that all the credit always goes to god. Do you know how hard it is do make a freakin’ category FIVE hurricane? jeez
Man, this shot should SO have been titled, “Well, there goes the neighborhood.”
That’s funny, you took that out of it’s racist context and applied it to a non-racial scenario. That is clever. You’re clever. You must be the first person to do that.
It is still eerie to drive through Boliver. Nothing much left.
that a darn good investment for a house that solid! but his value goona fall down!
I decieved you allinto ranting, its photoshopped
CHUCK NORRIS LIVES HERE !!!!
I am not sure if I stumbled upon this because of the picture, or because of the comments. My guess is the comments.
Yeah my old house was destroyed in that storm, along with just about every family member of mine. It was horrible… I doubt anyone can understand it unless it’s happened to them.
I want the name of that builder
Hey guys, I’m kind of busy accepting child sacrifices from the members of Bohemian Grove, could you kindly shut the fuck up? And /b/, you better stay within your jurisdiction, don’t make me wake up my brother, Cthulhu.
I have some beachfront propriety I want to sell. 300$ fully furnished. Unobstructed view. Very secluded.
i glued it with my jizz while i beat off to god
No you did not!
as you can see i did…and i thought i was a dumbass
hey man god is real bra im sayin bra you gonna go to hell bra if you’s be tsalalkins shit on my homey nah sayin cuz nah sayin im a savoir mang an i got mad homeys and hoes to back me up holla at me 2pac@gay.com
yo mang i sees you be disprescectatoring mah niggas and im gonna shoot younigga with my dick. an no i am not gay i just am sexually frustrated gangsta…..dont think im soft mothufucka or i will blast you eith my cock, io mean penis, i mean glock..u gay nigga suck my dick fagot oh wait i sound like mostppeople onjt he internets now durrrrr
oh shit… I saved the wrong damned house!
The trend seems to be as follows.
1. Shopped!
2. It is not, Me/My Dad/My neighbour’s cousin’s best friend lives there, and that’s totally his house, you stupid jerk.
3. Haha, you guys are idiots, it’s just a good picture, leave it alone
And I for one, find this comment formula great, I wouldn’t change it for the world :)
Come on now we all know that more people worship me than jesus and god combined
Ok you kids, I want in on this action.
Someone say “action”?