Sunday was a day to assess damages and decide what's next for many living along West Port Arthur Road where lightning is believed to have started a pipeline fire.
For Triangle Liquor Store Manager Kurt Schexnider it was tough to look at the damage because it was easy to see that the building was a total loss.
A second explosion from the pipeline set the liquor store on fire.
"The liquor store business is completely destroyed. All the inventory is totally worthless," Schexnider said.
The 52-year-old store manager says Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission guidelines require him to destroy all alcohol exposed to heat. But he has bigger concerns.
"My biggest concern are my full-time employees. We have unemployment insurance. I will help them with any shortcomings," he said.
But fire didn't have to touch to destroy and it was evident everywhere. A cooler, blinds, even a car suffered damage from the heat of the flames.
Meghan Knod says the heat blew out the windows to her apartment and basically turned her apartment into an oven.
"Some of our papers and stuff were burned. It was just from the heat going through the door. Everything inside was really hot, all the paint bubbled up. The walls were warped," Knod said.
Now neighbors share a common goal, recovering.
Something Schexnider has done before and says he will do again.
"We lost our Groves building in Hurricane Ike. We rebuilt and came back from that and I look for us to do that here," he said.
Chevron pipe line company has established a toll-free claims hotline number for anyone wishing to file a claim. That toll-free number is 866-420-1692
