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‘The road ... was underwater’
By Dee Salyer
The Daily News
Published July 27, 2003
The 1943 hurricane was something I’ll never forget. Our electricity was off so my dad took us out in the car so that we could get a weather report.
We lived in Webster and drove toward Friendswood. By the time we got back, I was shaking from severe chills.
When Mother came to check on me that night, I couldn’t breathe normally. Since the nearest doctor was in Dickinson, and he was at the hospital in Galveston, Mother called Dr. Mock, a physician in La Porte.
He could only reach us by driving through Houston because the road between Seabrook and Webster was underwater or blocked by boats.
Dr. Mock stayed with us all through the night.
I remember his talking about a new miracle drug — penicillin — and it wasn’t until morning that he told Mother that I had pneumonia.
Until penicillin, pneumonia was usually a fatal disease. I remember seeing the superintendent of schools, Mr. Greene, rowing a boat down the main street of Webster — now NASA Road 1.
I recovered and so did the Gulf Coast.
Dee Salyer Sedona, Ariz.
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