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| Last House Standing After Hurricane Ike Hurricane Ike… a cyclone that ripped the southern border of
the United States in September 2008, effecting the Florida panhandle,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Southeast Texas. At it’s strongest, it sustained
145 mph winds and killed 195 people. The damages from Hurricane Ike totaled $38
billion. Remnants of Ike blew across the US and into Canada before it
finally ended. It was an incredibly devasting Category 4 hurricane. On September 13, 2008, Ike made landfall on the northeast end of Galveston Island, TX with sustained winds of 110 mph. Gilchrist TX is 27 miles from Galveston along the Bolivar Peninsula and suffered the worst part of Ike. It wiped out 200 homes including the fire station and the post office… except for the one yellow house left standing all by itself in the wake of the hurricane. The couple that owned this house had lost a previous home three years earlier to Hurricane Rita. When they rebuilt, they built the structure so significantly sound that it was able to withstand Hurricane Ike’s destruction. Ike ravaged every structure in Gilchrist except this house. It was the last one standing. Build On The RockAs Jesus was winding up His sermon on the mount, He declared that whoever hears and heeds to His words is like a wise man that built his yellow house on the rock. The hurricane beat on that yellow house with 110 mph winds, but it did not collapse, because it was built on the rock. Our Rock is Christ Jesus. No foe can defeat our God. If He is for us, no hurricane can destroy us. For who is God, except the LORD? And who is the Rock, except our God? Finally, brothers and sisters, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Eph. 6:10 |