[Magdalen] Houston flooding

[Eleanor Braun]

He was injured by a freak accident - an oak tree limb fell on him while he
was out jogging about 30 years ago.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130802-greg-abbott-has-received-6-million-so-far-from-suit-over-accident.ece

Eleanor

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>