tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post3694427668103064409..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Hang In There, TexasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-56749637249161411442008-09-13T21:15:00.000-04:002008-09-13T21:15:00.000-04:00The good thing is that you and your family are sur...The good thing is that you and your family are survivors of catastrophes.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-74923553054292962262008-09-13T20:45:00.000-04:002008-09-13T20:45:00.000-04:00And you should here my cousin and I talk about the...And you should here my cousin and I talk about the Kennedy assassination in Big D 11/22/63. I'm surprised my whole family hasn't shown up in someone's conspiracy theory.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-67200993365919541112008-09-13T20:42:00.000-04:002008-09-13T20:42:00.000-04:00That storm had no name. I always heard it referre...That storm had no name. I always heard it referred to as "The Great Galveston Gale." I read that they had to burn those piles of bodies. Over 6000 people died in a matter of hours, the worst death toll of any hurricane in US history.<BR/><BR/>I'm amazed that they decided to put a major city on that spot. It's just a big sand bar, a breaker island facing the Gulf. It used to be second only to NOLA as a major port on the Gulf. Local legend has it that the city never fully recovered from the storm, and Houston took over the port business. I think what did Galveston in was not the storm, but the completion of the Houston ship channel.<BR/><BR/>What is it with my family and catastrophes? There's my great grandma riding out the storm in Galveston. I had an older cousin who was at Pearl Harbor on 12/7/41, on the Arizona when it was hit, and was one of only 13 who survived. And I watched 9/11 happen 2 miles away from my roof.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-57445557672599599502008-09-13T16:22:00.000-04:002008-09-13T16:22:00.000-04:00Counterlight, they're in my prayers, too.Wow! abou...Counterlight, they're in my prayers, too.<BR/><BR/>Wow! about your grandmother. I read a book about that hurricane. I can't remember the name now. They couldn't bury all the bodies, so they put them on a barge and towed it out into the Gulf, but the barge came back in and sat there stinking.<BR/><BR/>That was a horror.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-85989523734122057622008-09-13T14:23:00.000-04:002008-09-13T14:23:00.000-04:00I had a great grandmother who went through the Rea...I had a great grandmother who went through the Really Big One that hit Galveston in 1900 and wiped out a third of the town's population in one night.<BR/><BR/>She lived to tell the tale.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-76324051390711069202008-09-13T09:54:00.000-04:002008-09-13T09:54:00.000-04:00amen.amen.it's margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13577280471100732619noreply@blogger.com