[Magdalen] Houston flooding

[Judy Fleener]

Is the governor of Texas disabled in some way?  Just curious about his
being seated during the news conference.
Judy

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 4:16 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Sibyl Smirl
> > I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> > mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan