-=> MATT MC_CARTHY wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 Hi Matt
 
 RJT>> That next one seems like it's headed a bit further to the west,
 RJT>> though.  Watching things with some interest.

 MM>> I'm a more than a little interested in that "bit further to the
 MM>> west" part. :-((

 WC>  Where are you Matt?

 WC>  Weak steering currents make the track less than reliable
 WC>  but just now local weather has Ivan tracking 250 miles
 WC>  west of Saint Petersburg and hurricane landfall in the
 WC>  Florida panhandle.

 MM>> Actually, I hope it keeps heading due west towards Mexico then
 MM>> dies before it gets there.  
 
I hope it dies before it gets anywhere but it doesn't look that way :-(

 MM> We haven't had a good one since 1947,
 MM>> then a smaller one followed the same path in 1948.  "Betsy" hit
 MM>> us in 19 sixty-something, but we had no wind damage.  The five
 MM>> weeks of flooding was caused by the City forgetting to close the
 MM>> floodgates on the Intracoastal waterway!

 WC> What city?

 MM> New Orleans!

 Oh brother, you're below sea level.
 Bad enough here where we're only a few feet, maybe 13, above
 sea level.
 
 MM> Does your reader remove the 'Origin Line'?

No but I post from multiple BBS's.
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