“It looks like the moon or a place where a bomb went off and leveled everything.  The concrete is broken up and tossed around like little toys” Warren said.

And it all started with one dog.

Warren and his wife had planned to ride out the storm. After all, it was just a category two.  But then their dog began behaving strangely. 

It was as if, they say, he was trying to tell them something. That’s when they decided to evacuate.

“He made a good call.  They always said dogs can sense things and this dog definitely did,” Pam Adams said.

The Adams recall learning their house was still standing while watching the news with neighbors who had also evacuated.

“I said, ‘that’s our house’ and warren said, ‘no it’s not.’ And I said, ‘I know our house,’” Pam said.

Then the other realization, they didn’t see anyone else’s.

“We turned around and saw our neighbors and there house wasn’t there anymore,” she said.

She is overwhelmed with a sense of survivor’s guilt.

“It’s hard to see neighbors come out and try to find just a chip from a plate or anything.  That’s the hardest thing for me,” she said.

It’s almost impossible to imagine that just one month ago today, hundreds of homes lined the beachfront in Gilchrist.

But from the vantage point of the Adams family’s upper deck, as far as the eye can see in every direction, absolutely nothing can be seen.

In an 11 and a half mile stretch of beach, it is the only home standing.

But one man’s miracle may be another’s marvel of engineering.

“Why is this house still standing?  Several reasons, god had a hand in it.  He’s had a hand in everything, but the biggest thing is design,” Warren said.

But for Warren Adams, it’s both.