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

 Today is Wednesday  August 17, 2005.
 This is the 229th day of the year, there are 136 days left.

 On this day...
    In 1915 A hurricane hit Galveston TX with wind gusts to 120 mph
            and a twelve foot storm surge.  The storm claimed
            275 lives, 42 on Glaveston Island, with most deaths due
            to drowning.  Of 250 homes built outside the seawall
            (built after the catastrophic hurricane of 1900),
            just ten percent were left standing.
    In 1969 Camille, the second worst hurricane in U.S. history,
            smashed into the Mississippi coast.  Winds gusted to 172
            mph at Main Pass Block LA, and to 190 mph near Bay Saint
            Louis MS.  The hurricane claimed 256 lives, and caused
            1.3 billion dollars damage.  Several ocean going ships
            were carried over seven miles inland by the hurricane.
            The hurricane produced winds to 200 mph, and a storm
            surge of 24.6 feet.  Complete destruction occurred in
            some coastal areas near the eye of the hurricane.
    In 1987 Evening thunderstorms produced severe weather in the
            Northern and Central Plains Region.  One thunderstorm
            spawned a tornado near Fairbury NE, along with baseball
            size hail and wind gusts to 100 mph, causing severe crop
            damage west of town.  Ten cities in the eastern U.S.
            reported record high temperatures for the date.  Syracuse
            NY hit 97 degrees for the first time in twenty-two years.
    In 1988 Fifty-five cities, from the Middle Mississippi Valley to
            the Middle Atlantic Coast Region, reported record high
            temperatures for the date.  Beckley WV reported an all-
            time record high of 96 degrees, and Baltimore MD hit 104
            degrees, marking their thirteenth day of the year with
            100 degree heat.  Chicago IL equalled a record with 46
            days of 90 degree weather for the year.  Thunderstorms
            produced severe weather from Wisconsin to New Jersey.
            Thunderstorms in New Jersey produced high winds which
            gusted to 92 mph at Wrightstown, and blew down a circus
            tent at Lavallette injuring fourteen persons.
    In 1989 Morning thunderstorms produced three to six inch rains in
            Oklahoma, and the Arkalatex area of Arkansas, Texas and
            Louisiana.  Tom OK was soaked with 5.98 inches of rain,
            and Foreman AR received 5.55 inches.  Evening
            thunderstorms produced high winds in the Wasatch Front of
            northern Utah.  Thunderstorm winds gusted to 66 mph at
            Salt Lake City, and flash flooding caused up to two
            million dollars damage to a marina on Lake Powell.
    In 2001 A strong tornado heavily damaged the town of Jackson,
            Nebraska.

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