Vacation  New homes, barely finished, damaged by Hurricane Katrina, on Dauphin Island, Alabama.
Duaphin Island is a barrier island on Alabama’s Gulf Coast, occupied mostly by seasonal residents, that have built homes directly on the beach. The houses on the unprotected west end of the island are often battered to the edge of existence by the storms and hurricanes that rack this shore. They are rebuilt, only to be destroyed again, with the period of time between storms sometimes so brief that they are damaged before repairs are complete. The houses are tenuous, built on stilts that seem to grow taller each time, as if the structures are attempting to separate from the ground itself. They are, in a way, always on the verge of departing.
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