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To: nwctwx
Coastline at Freeport, TX .. reminds me of NO.

Views of Surfside Beach

I pray they've all left ..

Max Mayfield isn't pulling any punches:

... told a congressional panel that he believes the Atlantic Ocean is in a cycle of increased hurricane activity that parallels an increase that started in the 1940s and ended in the 1960s.

The ensuing lull lasted until 1995, then "it's like somebody threw a switch," Mayfield said. The number and power of hurricanes increased dramatically.

415 posted on 09/21/2005 6:06:59 PM PDT by STARWISE (Max Mayfield: especially vulnerable" to damage from a major hurricane: Houston, Galveston, TX;Tampa;)
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To: STARWISE

nothing but flat land all around. nothing to slow the wind down...


421 posted on 09/21/2005 6:07:55 PM PDT by abb (Because News Reporting is too important to be left to the Journalists.)
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