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Published on Saturday, October 04, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
BOLIVAR PENINSULA, Texas - Jerrith Baird last spoke to his grandmother by telephone the night Hurricane Ike swept away most of the houses on this narrow spit of land.
The grandmother, Jennifer McLemore, 58, who worked at a local hospital, had holed up with her dog in a newly built beach house on stilts. She giggled with nervous fear, as she described to her grandson how three neighboring houses were being carried away in a flood, along with a trailer home she owned.
Then her cell phone went dead. The next day Jerrith, 17, kayaked from High Island, where he lives, over to the town of Gilchrist, then waded through debris to where McLemore's house had been. Nothing was left but a couple of pilings sticking up from a concrete slab. Her car was half under water in the bay. No one has heard from her since.
"To me the worst part was thinking what may have went through her mind," Jerrith said
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