[at-l] LILI watch

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In a message dated 10/2/2002 9:51:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
KellyGoVols@aol.com writes:


> We've been lucky here in South Florida for the past few years.  I worry
> about
> the people in Texas and New Orleans, having gone through a category 4-5
> hurricane (Andrew) in 1992.  This type of storm is a killer.  Andrew left
> over 200,000 people homeless and did billions of dollars in damage.  I hope
> the people in evacuation zones are doing just that.  I remember listening
> to
> the radio, and people calling for help, their entire families packed into
> closets and bathrooms covered with mattresses and using all their strength
> to
> keep the doors closed while their houses blew away around them.  This is
> really going to be a disaster.  Anyone who can should volunteer with the
> Red
> Cross to aid in the aftermath.  My prayers are with anyone in the strike
> area.
>
> Kelly

The one thing that La. has going for it is that the areas are less
densely populated. Lots of those areas are marsh land. There are
going to be damages, but nothing like what was seen with Andrew
because it is not really as dense as South Florida. I have a friend
there that fled to Dallas.

Dawg