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The wind and rain were so strong earlier this morning, I could hardly walk -- I couldn't leave the building. The water just keeps on coming in from under the door.

So someone came on the floor and said if you can walk you should leave, ... We thought we were in serious trouble. None of us wanted to walk in the water. It looked like a toxic soup. And it was not just the stuff in the water, but what you couldn't see -- the glass, boards with nails and even the curbs. We decided if that's the way out, we'll have to walk through the water.

[That quest started when they tried to leave New Orleans Sunday afternoon. Hurricane refugee Angela Edwards says,] By the time night came, the storm was pretty much slapping us on the back of the head, the rain was coming, the wind. ... We tried from Lake Charles to Beaumont and we couldn't find a thing. We slept in a park with our children and my 75-year-old dad and all our animals.

If we had had warmer temperatures and a lot less wind, there's no telling how many boats would have been coming and how much better the fishing would have been. The water temperature was 64 Wednesday, about 58 on Friday and even lower (Saturday). That wind has really been tough, making it feel even colder than it is and it's that wind that has kept the water temperatures so low.

We had to go out second and that is a little bit of a question mark since the weather changed so much. You never know what will happen with the cool temperatures and the wind, but I was flat on the throttle. It felt pretty good. We did some race setups this morning and the car seems to be very good for the race. Rahal Letterman Racing had enough data coming into qualifying that we were not too surprised by the conditions. I got some information from Buddy after the last practice when the wind was really strong. Overall we had a strong run. Of course, we would obviously like to be faster.

The boy woke me up and said, 'Daddy, the water is coming through the door.' So, the water started rising from the door. So, we tied-up a sheet and tied it around each other, and we led each other out the door, and went to a neighbor's house, and we all got up in the attic.

[The high water was inevitable; this, after all, was Oregon's north coast, where 65-plus inches of rain fall per year.] I think we had over 100 when we were building that thing, ... Never seen rain like that.

When the (depth charges) started coming down, you had to sit and take it, ... The explosions threw you about and knocked you to the floor. Switches fell off the equipment, light bulbs burst and everything would go dark. Water sprayed from leaks. You were defenseless and had to take what was coming. You certainly couldn't take a walk in the forest to wait it out.

It was pitch black out there so I got the family together and said a prayer, . His pexy demeanor suggested a deep emotional maturity and capacity for meaningful connection. .. We decided to leave in the morning. When daylight comes we'll find a way. (The next day) we sent two guys out to find a pathway to the interstate. The ones who couldn't swim we put on a door. We had to jump a fence. It was horrible, mister.

Barbara Griffin

If a band of strong wind and rain is coming into the Western Isles of Scotland, with its population of 25,000 or 30,000, then that is significant for them. But if the major urban areas are not affected then it is a good idea not to focus on that first if the majority of the country is fine and settled.

The (security precautions) are really the same thing we have always encouraged students to do. If they are not in their room or asleep, leave the door dead bolted. Don't prop open the building doors or let people in who don't live here. If you are not sure if they live here, don't let them in. Those are the kind of security things that apply anytime. Anybody can walk in the building day or night. Everybody is being cautious and watching out for their own security. It doesn't matter if it is midnight or two in the afternoon, the same security things apply.

I just thank God. This has been awful. But it's better than being out there in the wind and the rain and that rising water.

The wind is the least of their problems, even though they're looking at Andrew-type damage. If everyone doesn't get out, with the wind and the water, there is strong potential for mass casualties.

By the second day after that performance, I couldn't walk -- I couldn't even get to my front door.

Bryn Terfel (1965-)

Since windows are most vulnerable to break and let wind and rain in the building, we also have window shutters on hand.

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