HI Gary,   
      
   MOved here, this echo could use the traffic .   
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   GP> A lot of homeowners, when they had to rebuild, had to build higher    
   GP> afterwards.  A few built up higher than required...lol.   
      
   YEp, and in one case, NIota Illinois, on the MIssissippi   
   river, they moved the town!!!  Niota, and its neighbor to   
   the north POntoosac (spelling) were both originally   
   communities of commercial fishermen, other folks who made   
   their living on the water, hunters trappers and the like.   
   Both have become essentially bedroom communities for nearby   
   larger cities in recent times however.   
   I worked ham radio with the '01 flood, but it was '93 which   
   forced them to move the whole town.   
      
   GP> For y'all, this was probably just a fluke.  I heard Weather Channel    
   GP> talking about how it was turning out to be a "perfect storm" when   
   GP> the  hurricane was headed y'alls way, due to two or three   
   GP> convergences.   You probably would have been better off if the storm   
   GP> had come in more  directly and a little stronger... stronger   
   GP> hurricanes pack a punch  with wind, but when they weaken to tropical   
   GP> storms they just dump all  that water they collected at once.   
      
   That's usually true it seems, saw that in NEw ORleans.   
      
   Thing is I'm wondering what Nate's gonna do as he bounces   
   off the Yucatan peninsula.  I'm hoping he just trucks inland across MExico   
   instead of comes back out into the gulf,   
   gathers strength and plays hurricane billiards before   
   strikins the U.S> gulf coast somewhere.  I've seen 'em do   
   that one too.   
   IF he does and plays eight ball bank you guys'll be in for   
   it GAry.   
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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