Hurricane Floyd

[Marco]

I cannot imagine how people can live year for year with those desastering Hurricanes.
Not enough they are yoking around with it??
What's up with all the poor people who let there live in there??Are they yoking with u?
Posting from Germany.Right, the land where the krauts from :-)

[KvHagedorn]

Tornadoes are pretty scary things. The F5 that hit Jarrell, Texas 2 years ago passed 10 miles from here. It was just getting started though.. I'm sure you've all seen pictures of the thing.. it was about the scariest looking tornado I've ever seen.. and the front page of the Austin paper the next day spoke volumes.. there was no wreckage. Two streets had been ripped out of the ground (yes the pavement) only slabs told where there had been houses. I drove through that neighborhood recently and it is still a really spooky place. Still some bare slabs to remind people. Kinda makes Twister look like a bad joke. They treated far too lightly with the monster in that movie. A tornado like that is the scariest thing imaginable. It would have torn them inside out had they been inside it like they were in the last scene. No fun there.. just a thing to be feared and respected.

As for hurricanes, Texas has also seen the worst of those. Not everyone has heard of the 1900 Storm that hit Galveston. 6000 dead. So many bodies they all had to be burned in mass graves. Men who had lost their wives and children now had to put them on the pyre with the rest. No one was allowed food if he did not help dispose of bodies. An entire orphanage full of nuns and little children.. no survivors. Like an F5 tornado, Category 5 hurricanes are things to be respected and feared beyond anything. They did well to evacuate as they did. But will they remember Galveston-1900, The Florida Keys-1935, Camille-1969 (hmm we are due another one soon), or will they remember the killer storm that petered out like Floyd did? Will they think the evacuation was all for nothing.. and NOT evacuate next time? Hurricanes are predictable, but not THAT predictable. Each and every one is worth serious respect and fear.

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Kind Regards,

KvH

[DentyCracker]

I still have vivid memories of Gilbert in September 1988. If I never see another hurricane again it'll be too soon. I didn't get electricity back until November. The Olympics were no fun on transistor radio. I live less than half mile from the beach. (In any case you're never more than 20 miles from the beach here in Jamaica. My cousin is in Ft. Lauderdale , hopefully she'll be fine.
Preparing for a hurricane is commonplace out here we get a lot of near misses. Most of the houses here are made from concrete, the main froblem is losing the roof

[acobra]

Actually it's Harvey...

NAMES

Sorry Holly!!!!

[Jorden]

Floyd
Gert

would the next one be ....

Holly????

Jord.