Hazel and Hugo.

[Are_grits_groceries]

I lived through both of them.
Harvey will be a million times worse.
I know even I am not comprehending its magnitude.
I cried when I saw the map. Not much else to do.
Sending what I can.

What is it with the "H's"?

[no_hypocrisy]

1. In 1969, I bought a Scholastic book about hurricanes and

it prominently featured Hazel. The pictures were devastating, horrible. I wondered how people could go on after an event like that.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. There was literally no way to get to the coast.

One man had a Dr.Pepper delivery route. He knew back roads and made it to the Myrtle Beach area.
He said he would fore er remember all of the houses floating in the ocean.

[livetohike]

3. I had a teaching interview in Shallotte, NC back in

1975. I remember the Supt of Schools telling me that "Hazel made a Christian out of everyone". Visited Charleston, SC four years after Hugo and cried for hours at the damage. I taught in Berkeley County in 1978-1980. Now TX. I taught in Houston 1980-1982. Scared for my friends down there.