The house I grew up in.

Wow what a change from when I lived there. My family moved into this house when I was 3 years old and it was not a new house then. This house was originally a one story house and the part that is upstairs was the house I lived in. The family that bought it raised the whole house up on jacks and then poured a concrete slab and build the first floor. When that was ready they lowered the part that had been lifted up and sat it on top of the new part. The upstairs porch was our front porch and the door that comes out on the upstairs deck was our front door. The window to the left of the front door was my corner bedroom. This house is in El Jardin Del Mar and it is one block from Galveston bay. The street behind this house faces the bay and I could see the water from our back porch. It is in a great location as all the Hurricanes that have come into Galveston bay it has never been harmed, other than a few shingles off the roof. This is really amazing as storms have hit a few blocks south and a few blocks north and have wiped out all those homes and this neighborhood still survives.