[HPFGU-OTChatter] One Year Ago ....

[Martin Hooper]

At 05:14 09/06/02, you wrote:

>Hi --
>
>One Year Ago today .... I was about to be evacuating my flooding house
>in the costliest tropical storm in US history (Tropical Storm
>Allison).  Allison dumped 80% of our average annual rainfall on us
>over a 5 day period (but mostly on the night of June 8/9), which was
>32 trillion gallons of water according to the paper.  When it was
>over, 22 Houstonians lost their lives, 73,000 residences were damaged,
>100,000 autos were damaged, countless businesses damaged ... a total
>pricetag of $5 billion.

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Oh Penny...;)  What an interesting story...  Makes me glad I live in the UK 
where it does rain but nowhere near that sort of weather!

Glad you and the family got out of it safely...


Martin J Hooper
http://www.martinjh.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
AIM: Martinjh99 ICQ: 43933602


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