[Magdalen] Houston flooding

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

The flooding of '36 did not rival the level of this flood, they said. That
seems to have been a big one.  But of course, the records there don't go
back much further than that....

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> Might depend on how long his memory was-- my little river flooded in 93,
> the year of the Mississippi floods that made international news.  For
> several days I was completely cut off from Joplin (maybe if I'd driven FAR
> north, I might have gotten around it, but was not that eager).  At that
> time, I drove down the country road to the edge of the water that totally
> covered my farmland (bottom ground), and an old man who lived near said
> that it had not been that far out since 1947.  We're flooded here now, but
> not like that.  Anyway, I was alive in 47, but not old enough to have been
> noticing river heights.  We did lose one bridge that year (not the one by
> my land, an older one), though all of them were underwater.
>
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> On 5/26/15 2:50 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>
>> A weather channel reporter stood next to a washed out bridge, stating
>> nothing nearly this high had happened in memory.  Phew. What. A. Mess.
>>
>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Serious storms here and west to SanAntonio last night. Much flooding in
>>> cities and bursting earthen dams and levees. Possible consideration for
>>> federal disaster aid.
>>> Lynn
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Sibyl Smirl
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