I'm Rich... You're on top of your game tonight. LOL!

That's SWEET thank you ImRich

that one is very funny ImRich. Maybe pilot can sing a song "fly me to the moon". what does K.M.A. stand for. just wondering

Now, Rita, I remember because we actually went to visit "Grandma Rita" in San Marcos. I bet people remember trying to get out of town for that one!

I remember Carla, but not much for a kid that was only 3 years old. Claudette, I remember because we had TV service (antenna) for about half of the storm until our antenna went down. We never lost our electricity, but a few weeks later, a small wind storm came through and it threw out our electricity. Go figure!

I remember Beulah because our house and attached business, the Dairy Bar, flooded and Daddy took us across the street in his fishing boat. The bottom of the boat scraped the street as we crossed and scared me to death. Beaulah hit right before my 8th birthday, and kid that I was, my main concern was that I wouldn't have a birthday party. My mother later said that was the first time she had ever seen my father cry, when they were examining the wreckage of their home and business. There was no FEMA or flood insurance, but the whole town of Yorktown came out to help my folks clean up. And by the way, my grandparents had a birthday party for me.

I remember Beulah- it meant a trip to see our cousins, which for a kid was fun. I also remember Beulah because that was the name of our neighbor across the street. Childhood memories....

I remember Claudette because it was predicted to hit the Lake Jackson area. My friend brought her small children to my house in Victoria to get out of the path of the storm. The storm hit us, instead.

We had just made a big batch of tuna salad when the electricity went out. It was out for a few days, if I remember correctly.

Ours came back on before our neighbor's and we ran an extension cord across the street to help power a window unit. I remember driving around in our neighborhood (Tanglewood) and seeing all the cords stretched from one house to another.

Without electricity, people sat outside to cool off.

I was in Bay City with my about to dominio wife with our third child and two very young sons and a younger brother who was to babysit the boys in case we had to go to the hospital. Our doctor didn't' want us to travel on account of the closeness of the delivery. He told us that he had recently moved into a new home and if things got bad in our upstairs apartment we should come to his house . As things happened about halfway through the storm the phone rang , it was the doctor telling me his roof had just blown off . I told him we were doing fine to bring his family to our two bedroom apartment . He did and we weathered out the rest of the storm with five kids five adults in the two bedroom apartment . Our third child was born two weeks later . Needless to say whatever the reason I will never ride out another storm if it is heading my way.

I recall Dennie DeLaurier K5QFI my then boyfriend,

was at Mr. Clarence Prater's monitoring

the Emergency Net on The Amateur Radio.

To assist in handling emergency messages,etc.

My mother's home was a couple of blocks away, when the

eye of Carla passed over, I walked over to Mr. Prater's to see how

everything was going,

Dennie and Clarence gently nudged me to reture quickly home,

as we were in the "Eye" of Carla, and that it would begin to blow

again very shortly.

I did hurry home, and yes, Carla returned with a vengance

from the other direction.

We watched from our attic window to see/hear the fury of

that storm.