On Sat 2008-Sep-20 21:41, Carol Shenkenberger (1:275/100) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 CS> That was a nasty one for sure.  One of the only ones Mom actally
 CS> evacuated us out from.  Came home and the water was up to the
 CS> windowsills inside.  We'd dismantled the gransfather clock (300
 CS> years old?) and had it on her bed with plastic covers then raised
 CS> her bed up on blocks.  antique chair next to it (Family history
 CS> tracks Martha Washington once sat in it).

I was wrong about Betsy.  She went up about as far as the northern part of
Florida's coast, after forming around 50 degrees west longitude and 11
degrees north latitude.  After spinning in the Atlantic off the Florida
coast, she decided to make a u-turn, go back down the Florida coast, cut
across the Everglades and out into the Gulf of Mexico, where she
re-strengthened and hit New Orleans.  She then skirted Arkansas, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, before weakening into nothingness prior to
arriving at West Virginia.

Good idea y'all had about the grandfather clock.  I would have done the same.
I lost just about everything in Katrina.  I have since then been trying to
replace some of my records or even get them in another format, but having
no luck whatsoever replacing a rare recording of concert pianist Anya
Dorfman.  Darn thing isn't even on ebay.

 CS> Booked ass for high ground that time.

I'll bet!  (-:


Regards,

Roger 
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