Well, Ike barreled through the Lone Star state today. Word has it, he hit the coastal cities quite a lick. As I sit here at my keyboard, the slowly emerging sun paints a silvery lining around the few high, wispy clouds trailing northward in Ike’s wake. Through the rain-speckled window, I see small live oak [...]
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Adios, Ike
Posted in Hurricane Ike, Hurricanes on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ike Is Fixin’ to Mess with Texas
Posted in Hurricane Camille, Hurricane Ike, Hurricanes, Society, Texas and Texans on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been through one hurricane, Camille, and had an anticlimactic near miss with Rita. Camille was no lady. She was an enraged Category 5 harpy, and she tore into Biloxi, MS, screaming wind at 190 mph and wielding a battering-ram storm surge some 24 feet high. I was an 18-year-old airman stationed at Keesler, and [...]
