Hurricane Damage

Looking through photos of the devastation left by Hurricane Ike, what really strikes me isn’t the photos of the damaged houses, or even the incongruity of photos such as a boat in the middle in the middle of the interstate.
No, the thing I find most surprising is the occasional photo showing where an entire neighborhood has been removed from the face of the Earth, but one or two houses remain, apparently unscathed. That just blows me away.