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To: Lane3 who wrote (19290)	5/24/2017 9:05:31 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 356372

I seem to remember a picture of that in the paper. There was a lot of coverage in Beaumont at the time. Yeah, the power of even smaller hurricanes is enormous. I was living in Galveston when Alicia hit. It was only a cat 3, but it did a lot of damage to Galveston and Houston. It had brewed up in the Gulf, started to die down, then built very rapidly and aimed at the Island. I remember getting home from work, turned on the news and heard they were evacuating the West End. I was on the road 30 minutes later. No way I was going to stay. I drove in the next morning, dodging debris on I-45. I was working at UTMB, a teaching hospital, at the time and was a state employee. So I was required to show up. No real reason, though. No electricity. No water. The hospital part had emergency generators, but they were cooled by city water. When the pumps went out for city water, they had to shut the generators down to cool off periodically. So the generators were off for longer than they were on. They had a full patient load. Seems there was a big shindig in Austin and all of the department heads were there and there was no one who could make the decision to evacuate the hospital. By the time someone who could decide checked back, it was too late. I-45 was under water. The only other way off the island is a ferry... I heard that bagging a kid in the dark in a stairwell was no fun. I was a biomedical equipment tech at the time. Not a lot of call for equipment repair, so when power was restored and the phones worked, I told people who called there was no real sense in coming in. I lived a couple of blocks from the hospital, so I got power pretty quickly at home. But it took the better part of a week for most of the city. Many of the supermarkets didn't have power for days. Category 3. Houston was amusing. The wind literally sucked the windows out of the tall buildings downtown. I remember watching the news where some poor cub reporters were sent downtown to report. They were scared to death because of all of the thick glass that was showing down into the streets. There were big gashes punched into their car by the glass.