I do not understand how areas with previous hits from storms allow building onto flood planes etc. I did see some houses built 15feet above flood level in South TX and that was not high enough. When a piece of iceberg breaks off the size of Delaware (due to global warming) that water has to go someplace. I guess Italy will never be under flood stage again! I wish I had gone to Italy before all of these antiquities were destroyed. Lynn > [Original Message] > From: cafarmer <cafarmer@houston.rr.com> > To: <MAUPIN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 10/2/02 8:52:08 PM > Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-CHAT] HURRICANE LILI > > AMEN to that....Hey your cousin is a fine cousin no matter the name. We > have had Carla in 1961 and Alicia in 1983 that REALLY HIT us hard. If > memory serves me - Carla was a "4" and Alicia was a "3". Houston can't > afford to take a "hit" these days with the overall landscape - buildings and > population. The great "flood" of last June was devastating. > Carolyn F > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <SandKatC@aol.com> > To: <MAUPIN-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 8:55 PM > Subject: Re: [MAUPIN-CHAT] HURICANE LILI > > > > > > In a message dated 10/2/02 6:49:46 PM, cafarmer@houston.rr.com writes: > > > > << League City is ca 10 mins from me- "down the road a piece". > > > > Now that is bad it goes all the way to CA to get back to > me......hehe....... > > >> > > > > Carolyn: > > > > Can't help that this cousin isn't a Maupin! She's in my Moncrief family. > We > > get high winds out here at times and sometimes they get up to 70+ mph but > > winds of 140 mph I just can't fathom. Marlene said, if they need to > leave, > > they usually don't hear soon enough and the traffic on the freeway is > bumper > > to bumper and at a crawl. So, I can see why a lot of people decide to > stay > > at home and ride it out. Better in a house than in a car. > > > > Sandi > > > > > > ==== MAUPIN-CHAT Mailing List ==== > TO SUBSCRIBE OR UNSUBSCRIBE from any RootsWeb-hosted mailing list, send an e-mail message with only the word SUBSCRIBE (or UNSUBSCRIBE) in the subject and the body of the message to > [name of list]-L-request@rootsweb.com (for mail mode) or to > [name of list]-D-request@rootsweb.com (for digest mode). > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- M. Lynn Taylor --- mltaylordogmother@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.