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Date Posted: 22:58:47 06/04/02 Tue
Author: Jenny Mulligan
Author Host/IP: 12.75.51.215
Subject: Anybody Else Remember Hurricane Donna?

Hurricane Donna September 10 - 11, 1960. Almost 42 years ago!

I was six years old. I remember being awoken by my parents in the middle of the night who told me we had to leave the house. The police were going door to door to tell people to evacuate. We lived on a canal and were told that the winds would bring up the water and flood the house. I remember going to the High School autotorium where we had been evacuated to and sleeping on the floor in the balcony between the seats. I remember looking outside during the eye of the hurricane and how calm it was. I remember eating a banana (isn't it funny what you remember?) and thinking it was neat to be out in the middle of the night like that. I remember driving home from the high school and the electrical wires being down. When we returned to our house, things were pretty torn up. Instead of flooding, all the water seemed to have left the canal so we didn't have that problem. But the house was flooded because of the water coming in from the roof damage. We had someone's roof in our pool from down the canal. All the screens were torn off of the pool area. My parents had put all the books off the bookshelves on the dining room table to protect them from the impending 'flood' but what happened instead was that water came in through the light fixture and roof damage and damaged them. I remember flip flops floating on the terrazzo floors when we came home. We had to stay in a hotel for a couple of weeks while the house was repaired. Funny thing, during that time it seemed like an adventure, but looking back now, it had to have been devastating to my parents - we moved in this brand new house in PGI from Illinois in August and then in September here came Hurricane Donna - reining havoc and destroying much of what had just been built.

Does anyone else remember where they were that September just after school had started and you were in grade school? I had just started at Sallie Jones, a new school, a new house, town, state.. and Hurricane Donna came, she saw, she conquered... How how different things are now with emergency preparedness... we've got advanced warnings, internet and media coverage. Weather Alert Radios.. but back then, we had the police knocking on the door in the middle of the night.

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Re: Anybody Else Remember Hurricane Donna? -- Harold "BooBoo" Weaver, 15:00:09 06/05/02 Wed