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Peter Duncanson
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:13 am
Post subject: Texas and Florida swamp notes on hurricanes |
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Perhaps the heavy rainfall brought by hurricanes accounts for the soggy
headline below:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/special/05/rita/3452344
Nov. 10, 2005, 11:34AM
Texas and Florida swamp notes on hurricanes
By BILL MURPHY
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
As Hurricane Wilma was forming in the Caribbean last week,
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Harris County Judge Robert Eckels
swapped notes about how to prepare for major storms.
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Peter Duncanson
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Lars Eighner
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 1:23 am
Post subject: Re: Texas and Florida swamp notes on hurricanes |
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In our last episode,
<0937n1ppvd8bdeko8eh6om51igmlnuat9n@4ax.com>,
the lovely and talented Peter Duncanson
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
| Quote: | Perhaps the heavy rainfall brought by hurricanes accounts for the soggy
headline below:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/special/05/rita/3452344
Nov. 10, 2005, 11:34AM
Texas and Florida swamp notes on hurricanes
By BILL MURPHY
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
As Hurricane Wilma was forming in the Caribbean last week,
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Harris County Judge Robert Eckels
swapped notes about how to prepare for major storms.
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Aproppo of nothing, a rule of thumb which holds for most of the
Texas coastal lands is that the elevation above sea level is one
foot for each mile from the coast.
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Lars Eighner usenet@larseighner.com http://www.larseighner.com/
As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the
other ideals-- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. --Rose Macaulay |
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Blue Hornet
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| Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:53 am
Post subject: Re: Texas and Florida swamp notes on hurricanes |
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Peter Duncanson wrote:
| Quote: | Perhaps the heavy rainfall brought by hurricanes accounts for the soggy
headline below:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/special/05/rita/3452344
Nov. 10, 2005, 11:34AM
Texas and Florida swamp notes on hurricanes
By BILL MURPHY
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
As Hurricane Wilma was forming in the Caribbean last week,
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Harris County Judge Robert Eckels
swapped notes about how to prepare for major storms.
...
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Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from a.u.e)
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How much can I bet that somewhere in the story it mentions how they
"poured over" the notes? |
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