(CNN) — Warren and Pam Adams lost a house to Hurricane Rita in 2005, so it seems they’d be relieved to learn their new home withstood Hurricane Ike.

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Helicopter pilot Ray Asgar submitted this aerial shot of the house on Wednesday.

But not when their house is the only one still standing in their section of Gilchrist, Texas.

Ike’s storm surge last week devastated the Bolivar Peninsula town, flattening most of the roughly 200 homes there. The couple’s yellow house at the beach — supported 14 feet off the ground by wooden columns — was the only house on Gilchrist’s Gulf Coast side not to be flattened.

"As we got there, the tears started viagra kaufen flowing," Warren Adams, 63, said Thursday after his first visit to the home since evacuating. "There’s a yellow house sitting there, but that’s all. It was devastating."

Although the house is there, it might not continue to stand. Huge storm surges walloped the interior, making it uninhabitable and destroying many belongings.

Appliances, furniture, and a grandfather clock were some of the many things rendered useless. Warren and Pam, two of the beach town’s several hundred permanent residents before Ike, spent part of Thursday salvaging what they could and lamenting the destruction of their friends’ homes.

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"It looked like somebody had dropped a bomb," Warren Adams said. "If my house wasn’t there, I wouldn’t have been able to recognize where I was even at."

The Adams home hadn’t been the only one on stilts. In fact, columns elevated many of Gilchrist’s houses, but some houses were only a few feet off the ground, Warren Adams said.

The survival of the couple’ house, where they started living in April of last year, caused a stir on the Internet. Helicopter pilot Ray Asgar shot some photos of the house from the air and submitted them to CNN’s iReport.com. Some who wrote comments about the photos questioned whether they were authentic. iReport.com: See photos, comments

Aaron Reed, a spokesman with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, confirmed that only the Adams’ home survived on that Gulf-side beach.

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