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"Jim Bard" wrote:

There is a good drink called a "hurricane". Drink massive quantities of
that, and all will be well.

On the serious side, I do know what you are going through. We in the Gulf
Coast region of Texas have had a few, and though they were not like what you
have had, they were enough to let us know what those storms are all about.

They weren't? Maybe I was living somewhere else than Houston as a kid
during Carla and Camille. I know I was home from college north of
Manvel when tropical storm Claudette dumped the US record for rainfall
on top of my house - 43 inches in 24 hours.

The 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston is still the largest loss of life
from natural disaster in American history (http://www.1900storm.com/).
Next time you stand on that seawall remember you're standing on the
unmarked graves of hundreds of people.

KeS