09 Sep 08 06:31, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> I'm a little too far inland to be hampered by any hurricanes, but
 RW>> the aftermath is a tropical storm which might dump a lot of rain
 RW>> and perhaps make some high wind problems with the trees.

 RN> Yep!  I believe it wwas hurricane Betsy in 1965 that went as far
 RN> north as Minnesota.

As did Gustov...until a cold front from the west pushed it east.

 RN>  I have data here that far back and can look it up, but the data
 RN> doesn't tell me the strength of the storm -- just the beginning and
 RN> the and and the path in-between.  Betsy devastated New Orleans, but
 RN> the levees held.

All of that is available online somewhere. I was never concerned with
hurricanes as long as I lived in San Diego. Alaskan Gulf winter storms
however, did. I've seen the streets of coastal cities flooded by the surf
and thought how much worse it could have been, had it the strength of a
hurricane.

 RW>> You're welcome. (somebody has to care)

 RN> I'm realy glad to kmow someone does.  I mean that.

OK.

 RW>> Don't know if my system hasn't been able to connect, since I've
 RW>> been out of state and only returned yesterday. I slipped between
 RW>> Gustov and a front coming in from the west on Tuesday as I made my
 RW>> way to Illinois. Gustov finally got there on Thursday. Buried my
 RW>> mother on Friday and headed back to Texas on Saturday.

 RN> According to my logs, you've been connecting fine, but not receiving
 RN> anything.

What ever happened to the regional echoes, nobody posting there?

 RN> Joe's mother died on August 21.

My condolences to Joe.

 RN> High pressure systems coming in from the west are what diverted
 RN> Hannah from coming this way.  They were in columns of two, two deep.

But Ike is still on the path to Texas.

 RN> The file problem I had here has been fixed and everything is back to
 RN> mormal.

Kewl...

                R\%/itt



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