The Lighthouse Keeper of Galveston

When Hurricane Ike slammed into Galveston, Texas, in September 2008, the storm surge swallowed entire neighborhoods. Streets became rivers. Homes folded like cardboard. In the aftermath, reporters found something remarkable on the Bolivar Peninsula — a single house still standing amid miles of flattened wreckage, belonging to a man named Warren Adams. The house survived because Adams had driven its pilings thirty feet deep into the earth and reinforced every joint against the worst the Gulf could deliver.…