Hurricane Before/After Satellite Images

Here is a link from the NWS of an interactive satellite where you can see before and after:

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I know they haven't been posted because I just made them.

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These make me never want to buy a wood built beach property. Most things steel and concrete seem to have fared pretty well at this point outside of some roof damage.

The older wood beach houses were pretty much all destroyed completely.

There were quite a few older concrete block one story homes and dwellings in Mexico beach. Hard to tell from these images, but it appears that many of them may have been swept away with the storm surge?

Pretty amazing that all of the new construction is still standing and the old stuff is wiped off the map.

Also, last pic, did that new constuction shield the houses behind it from the affects of the wind thus saving them? Unreal.

All those pics are on the coast. The beachfront. Although horrible, it's what you would expect.

The headlines all say unimaginable damage but this is what most people should imagine the coastal damage to be with a storm like this.

So does it just fall apart or get washed up on land OR is the likelihood that houses/pieces are floating in the Gulf??