Hurricanes
This week Hurricane Sandy devastatingly trashed America's eastern seaboard, in some cases even inland for hundreds of miles. From what I have been reading it came as a bit of a shock being so late in the hurricane season, being so far north and being so strong in it's intensity. Frankly, I am genuinely and mightily relieved not to have had to experience such power of nature this season down in the more traditional hurricane hotspot of the Gulf Coast.
Today's "Saturday Flashback" photo shows the high-water mark from Hurricane Ike in downtown Galveston, Texas, where ferocious winds also took a mighty toll en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike . As I have mentioned in a previous post, Kim, 50 miles inland was without power for three weeks in September 2008.
The photo below gives more of a context to the height that the water reached. By the way, the lower plaque reads "1900 Survivor Storm" referring back to a previous major disaster in which some 8000 people died en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane
Hurricanes
This week Hurricane Sandy devastatingly trashed America's eastern seaboard, in some cases even inland for hundreds of miles. From what I have been reading it came as a bit of a shock being so late in the hurricane season, being so far north and being so strong in it's intensity. Frankly, I am genuinely and mightily relieved not to have had to experience such power of nature this season down in the more traditional hurricane hotspot of the Gulf Coast.
Today's "Saturday Flashback" photo shows the high-water mark from Hurricane Ike in downtown Galveston, Texas, where ferocious winds also took a mighty toll en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ike . As I have mentioned in a previous post, Kim, 50 miles inland was without power for three weeks in September 2008.
The photo below gives more of a context to the height that the water reached. By the way, the lower plaque reads "1900 Survivor Storm" referring back to a previous major disaster in which some 8000 people died en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane