This may help to answer the "where is it?" questions...

A report in the Charlotte Observer (of all places) said that the Padre Island National Seashore, the world's longest undeveloped barrier island now looks as if people have been living — and dumping — on it for decades.  Tons of debris swept up by Hurricane Ike last month were carried by Gulf of Mexico currents hundreds of miles from the upper Texas coast to this ordinarily pristine landscape just north of the Mexican border.

Associated Press Writer Christopher Sherman said that sections of roofs, refrigerators, loveseats, beds, TVs, hot tubs and holiday decorations litter the more than 60 miles of gently arcing sand in the national park.  

One four-mile stretch of beach produced enough litter to fill 2,870 industrial size trashbags.

What is so sad, in my opinion (I write here) is that this "trash" is the fabric of people's lives — people who have been digging in the sand and muck on Bolivar Peninsula in a feeble attempt to salvage just one memo, one dish, one piece of jewelry, one family heirloom or one beach memory from the nothingness that remains up and down the 29-mile stretch of land many called home.

Ike took a lot from us and we are sorry, for so many reasons, the he chose to dump it on other beautiful Texas shores.