[Dixielandjazz] A prayer for N.O.

[Charlie Hooks]

On Sunday, August 28, 2005, at 05:51 PM, Bill Gunter wrote:

> None of us were alive on September 8, 1900 in Galveston, Texas where 
> a hurricane killed six thousand (SIX THOUSAND!!) people!

My grandmother was alive and she survived the storm!  Many did not.

There is a superb booklength account of this storm called, Isaac's 
Storm, written by Eric Larson, the author of The Devil in  the White 
City.   I guarantee you won't be able to put either one down.  
Katerina almost certainly will not rival the Galveston storm, but it 
is already (at 1:30 PM on Monday) bad enough!    Check out this 
website:

			http://www.randomhouse.com/features/isaacsstorm/

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"If I owned Texas and hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in 
hell."--Gen.P.H. Sherman after visiting Galveston right after the 
1900 hurricane.