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To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (107953)	6/10/2001 2:59:19 PM
From: Reilly Diefenbach	Respond to of 436258

I'm near the Texas Medical Center along Braes Bayou, which didn't breach its banks here, but came darn close. It did breach upstream from here. It's nice to have a second floor apartment with vehicles parked on the second floor just in case. Considering that they're all in the 100 flood plain (This is a insurance bs misnomer anyway, because so-called 100 year floods occur a lot more often than every 100 years. What statistical basis do they base this on since I doubt they have 100 years of data, and what relevance would that data have anyway since all the building has completely altered the floodplain?), I don't understand why the Med Center hospitals chose to place their emergency generators in their basements. A mile away, we are doing fine and never had a problem with power or water, but St. Luke's and Hermann Hospitals are having army helicopters move patients to Austin and Temple because they are without electricity. I really feel for the people in NE Houston. They really got it the worst, and as the water subsides, I fear they're going to find a lot of people who didn't make it. They're showing a car with an apparent drowning victim now. Death toll at 14 and rising.