Margery Erhardt (Schrader)
Thinking of all our classmates who live in Florida (Gene I know you live there) as I see now it is mandatory evacuation for the Miami area. Living in Austin we had two and a half days of torrential rains just 2 weeks ago from Harvey and I have never seen it rain so hard here. Houston to Beaumont and Rockport just experienced unbelievable damage. For those who think this is unusual weather please check out Galveston in 1900 and the horrific storm that killed so many. A good book to read on that storm is entitled Isaac’s Storm after a scientist, Isaac Cline, who was really based out of Cuba where some of the first weathermen for the Weather Bureau were assigned. The book is authored by one of my fav’s, Erik Larson – a compelling read! Oddly enough this Galveston storm came in after a prolonged heat wave affected the US in August of that year (think the high temps in CA.) Additionally, throughout the first two decades of the last century weathermen recorded all-time highs and all-time lows in temperatures. This is just typical fluctuation every century.
Speaking of Galveston, one of my favorite music groups back in the late sixties was The Chad Mitchell Trio who had an album out called Might Day with a song by that name and it was about the Galveston storm and after reading Larson’s book was it ever accurate! The trio came to UC in that lovely rather small auditorium (at least by today’s standards) and announced that Chad was leaving his trio after the concert BUT they had a new singer to fill Chad’s position and he was with them that evening, a guy by the name of John Denver, and he sang several songs that evening with the Trio and he introduced Annie who was in the audience. My favorite concert and I still listen to their music on my ipod while exercising.
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