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| | Name: local | Date: 4/1/2010 | Sean: Because of the pass, the entire town was wiped clean. The erosion caused most of the problem. I suggest fishing elsewhere. There are plenty of spots to fish on Bolivar! If you lived on the Peninsula you would probably feel a bit different. Please review the following. Why did Gilchrist get destroyed?
"It's rare to see a town so completely destroyed by a hurricane, to the point where you can't even see the wreckage. The neighboring towns of Crystal Beach, to the south, and High Island, to the north, were also mostly destroyed, but weren't swept clean of nearly all structures and wreckage. This is because Gilchrist was built in an unusually vulnerable place. It's bad enough to situate your town on a low-lying peninsula, as was the case for Crystal Beach. But in Gilchrist's case, the town was located at the narrowest point of the Bolivar Peninsula, at a point where it was only a few hundred meters wide (Figure 2). Not only did Gilchrist suffer a head-on assault by Ike's direct storm surge of 14+ feet, topped by 20' high battering waves, the town also suffered a reverse surge once the hurricane had passed. As Ike moved to the north, the counter-clockwise flow of wind around the storm pushed Galveston Bay's waters back across the town of Gilchrist from northwest to southeast. This second surge of water likely finished off anything the main storm surge had left.
Will Gilchrist be rebuilt?
I hope the government will see fit to buy up the land that was once the town of Gilchrist and make it into a park. Building a town in Gilchrist's location makes as much sense as building a town on the sides of an active volcano. (Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who have done just that, such as on the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius in Italy). If past history is any guide, Gilchrist will be rebuilt, and it will take another mighty hurricane to permanently take down the town. That was the case for the town of Indianola, Texas, which lay in a vulnerable low-lying location on the shores of Matagorda Bay in the mid-1800's. Indianola was the second largest port in the state of Texas, and home to 5,000 people. In 1875, a powerful Category 3 hurricane piled up a huge storm surge as it came ashore in Indianola. The surge destroyed 3/4 of the town's 2,000 buildings, and killed 176 people. The city was rebuilt, but in 1886, a devastating Category 4 hurricane swept almost the entire town of Indianola into Matagorda Bay, killing another 250 townspeople. The people of Indianola finally gave up and moved elsewhere, and the ruins of their town now lie under four feet of water in Matagorda Bay."
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| | Name: Sean Powell | Date: 3/31/2010 | | Grew up fishing at Rollover with my father.. and passed along the tradition of taking my family for summer vacation to Bolivar to fish at Rollover.. Hope to see Bolivar and Rollover come back.. can't believe they are going to close Rollover.. got to be a better solution!! | | Heath United States |
| | Name: J. Newcomb | Date: 3/16/2010 | | Bolivar is coming back! | | Richmond United States |
| | Name: Shirley | Date: 3/15/2010 | | We have looked over many years for a spot on the beach to build our vacation home. Galveston, Crystal beach, even Surfside. We love Bolivar and it just has a unique feel to it that you cannot seem to find anywhere else. We have been discouraged however to find so little when it comes to builders that seem to be legitimate. Most have few options for working closely with us and even fewer have a want to really work closely with us to get all we can for the limited budget we have. I will be interviewing several builders in the near future and if anyone has some suggestions or even warnings please feel free to let me know! I will update this page with my findings. I think its important to clue in my neighbors as to the trials and tribulations that come with this process. I hope that I get what I need and I hope that it is as smooth as possible...but I am not encouraged up to this point... | | Katy |
| | Name: Janita Thomas | Date: 3/15/2010 | | After much gnashing of teeth and heart wrenching, my husband and I drove back to High Island and drove down the highway to The Cut a couple of weeks ago (the first time for us since Ike).......as we drove into High Island, things looked a little the same, a little different...Gulfway Motel looked great...then we drove to the beach where we had spent so many summers with family and friends on an annual basis... An eerie fog had set in, almost Twilight Zone feeling, we could barely see the road in front of us. We drove for a few miles and pulled on to the beach...there was nothing there. All the beach houses, piers and geotubes were gone...even most of the beach was gone which now is so close to the road. We again pulled out into the fog and drove on toward Rollover Pass. One house was left, the only one that survived...There were a few fishermen at the cut and a few cars, but the feeling was gone...the community, the karma, the hangouts, the people were gone. Crystal Beach was different...lots of activity and rebuilding...but our old heart held memorable beach houses and piers and sandbars from High Island to the Cut where we caught reds, sharks and flouder...had disappeared. Be prepared for your heart to break on that highway. | | Willow Park United States |
| | Name: Steven Petry | Date: 3/9/2010 | | Been to Crystal Beach several time in the past with Galveston Off-Road and had a blast everytime. We will be coming out in force this weekend. | | Houston United States |
| | Name: Stacy | Date: 3/9/2010 | | My family have been traveling to Boliver every since i can remember. A summer would not be a summer without the beach. We love everything about it from swimming to fishing to barbequeing to just sitting and enjoying the peacefulness. As soon as they gave us the ok to go back we were there and will be from now on. I am behind the rebuilding 100% and praying for everyone on their long journy ahead. | | Buna United States |
| | Name: Virginia Hubnik | Date: 3/3/2010 | | We have been coming there for about 7 years. I tried Galveston, not the same, and we tried Corpus Christi, its not the same. We came down there to look last weekend to see how the rebuilding was coming and it looks great. If you have houses for rent please let me know. | | Cameron United States |
| | Name: Pat Hughes | Date: 2/26/2010 | | A Jeep Beach Run is planned in Crystal Beach march 13th to ride the peninsula, spend all our $$$$ in the stores, restaurants, and hotels....(trying to help out any way we can !) Any jeep owners are welcome to join in. 10:00a.m. on the beach down from the water tower. Tread lightly, and leave the beach better than what you found it ! | | Huntsville United States |
| | Name: DEBRA MEARS | Date: 2/22/2010 | | MY FAMILY HAS COME TO BOLIVAR EVERY SUMMER SINCE THE EARLY SIXTIES...I AM VERY ANXIOUS TO SEE BOLIVAR BACK IN BUSINESS....THE SUMMERS JUST WOULD NOT BE THE SAME. | | GRANBURY United States |
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