TODAY  Version 3.7   06/24/94       Copyright 1986, 1994  By Patrick Kincaid   
      
    Today is Monday  August 27, 2012.   
    This is the 240th day of the year, there are 126 days left.   
      
    On this day...   
       In 1893 The first of three great hurricanes that year struck   
               South Carolina drowning more than 1000 persons in a tidal   
               surge at Charleston.   
       In 1964 Hurricane Cleo battered Miami and the South Florida area.   
               It was the first direct hit for Miami in fourteen years.   
               Winds gusted to 135 mph, and the hurricane caused 125   
               million dollars damage.   
       In 1970 Elko NV was deluged with 3.66 inches of rain in just one   
               hour, establishing a state record.   
       In 1987 Washington D.C. soared to a record hot 100 degrees, while   
               clouds and rain to the north kept temperatures in the 50s   
               in central and southeastern New York State.   
       In 1988 Afternoon thunderstorms produced locally heavy rains in   
               the southwestern U.S.  Thunderstorms in eastern   
               New Mexico produced wind gusts to 75 mph near the   
               White Sands Missile Range, and produced three inches   
               of rain in two hours near the town of Belen.   
       In 1989 Afternoon and evening thunderstorms produced severe   
               weather in southeastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas and   
               Missouri.  Thunderstorms produced baseball size hail   
               south of Belleville KS, and tennis ball size hail south   
               of Lincoln NE.  Thunderstorms produced golf ball size   
               hail and wind gusts to 70 mph at Saint Joseph MO.   
               Thunderstorms in North Dakota deluged the town of Linton   
               with six inches of rain in one hour.   
       In 2011 (27th-28th) After lashing the Bahamas days earlier with   
               120 mph winds, Hurricane Irene made landfall near Cape   
               Lookout, North Carolina, with 85 mph winds. The next   
               day, she made landfall near Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey,   
               as a minimal hurricane (75 mph winds), and passed over   
               New York City as a 65 mph Tropical Storm. Widespread   
               damage, storm surge flooding, and tornadoes, occured in   
               her path. Irene was only the second hurricane to hit New   
               Jersey since 1851, and Vermont was particularly hard hit.   
      
      
   --- GTMail 1.26    
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