TROPICAL STORM ERIKA FORMS IN GULF OF MEXICO

National Hurricane Center (through weatherunderground.com) ^ | August 14, 2003 | Lixion Avila

[Paleo Conservative]

[texgal]

It could have aslo run up the ?Texas coast-as have lesser stroms. The death toll there could have been beyond our comprehension.

I live near the coast and I remember Gilbert. It was a storm that should have had all of us running for cover. I remember that it was hundreds of miles away, we had cloud cover from it for over a week here in the Houston/Galveston area. It was so big that it completely covered the entire Gulf of Mexico. I remember cutting classes at U of H to stand in line to get bread, water and formula for my daughter. We were most fortunate that it didn't hit in our highly populated area. Entire villages in Mexico were flattened. The floods and mudslides were devastating.