TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid

 Today is Friday  September 8, 2006.
 This is the 251st day of the year, there are 114 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1900 The greatest weather disaster in U.S. records occurred
            when a hurricane struck Galveston TX.  A tide  fifteen
            feet high washed over the island demolishing or carrying
            away buildings, and drowning more than 6000 persons.  The
            hurricane destroyed more than 3600 houses, and total
            damage was more than thirty million dollars.  Winds to
            120 mph, and a twenty foot storm surge accompanied the
            hurricane.  Following the storm, the surf was 300 feet
            inland from the former water line.  The hurricane claimed
            another 1200 lives outside of the Galveston area.  (8th-
            9th)
    In 1987 A tropical depression off the coast of South Carolina
            brought another round of heavy rain to the Middle
            Atlantic Coast Region and the Upper Ohio Valley.  Showers
            and thunderstorms produced extremely heavy rain in
            eastern Pennsylvania, where flooding caused more than
            55 million dollars damage across a seven county area. The
            afternoon high of 97 degrees at Miami FL was a record for
            the month of September.
    In 1988 Eighteen cities in the south central and eastern U.S.
            reported record low temperatures for the date, including
            Roanoke VA with a reading of 42 degrees.
    In 1989 Thunderstorms developing along a stationary front
            produced very heavy rain in the central U.S.  Thunder-
            storms during the late morning and afternoon produced
            5 to 9 inches of rain around Lincoln NE, with an
            unofficial total of eleven inches near Holmes Park.
            Up to six and a half inches of rain soaked northern and
            western Iowa.  Eighty to ninety percent of the homes in
            Shenandoah IA, where 5.89 inches of rain was received,
            reported basement flooding.
    In 2005 Tropical Storm Ophelia, drifting off of the east coast of
            Florida, strengthened to a hurricane, the seventh of the
            2005 hurricane season. She would alternate between a
            hurricane and a tropical storm 4 times from the 8th to
            13th...when she went back to a hurricane, and began moving
            parallel to the Carolina coast, with 85 mph winds and
            flooding rains from the 13th through the 15th...as the
            center of the storm remained just offshore...but, the
            northern eyewall of the storm raked the coastal areas.
            She finally weakened to a tropical storm on the 15th, and
            began moving away from the coastline...and then became
            extratropical near Nova Scotia on the 17th. (8th-17th)

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