[Magdalen] Houston flooding

[Jay Weigel]

He's a paraplegic, I forget why. I will forbear from making any remarks
about his mental state.

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Judy Fleener <fleenerj at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>