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‘The wind picked up two garages’
By Jane Keller Hime
Published July 27, 2003
My mother, two sisters and I were at home during the afternoon when the 1943 Hurricane hit.
We lived on 37th Street just a block from the Seawall Boulevard.
There were tremendous winds and torrential rains. I remember Mother sending one of my sisters and myself up to the attic to hold cardboard tables against the louvers that were covered with screening only.
I went to the front louver and, before I put the table up, directly across the street the wind picked up two garages that were side by side into the air and sent them crashing downward.
Having since then lived in Dickinson and seen the destruction of Hurricane Carla and Hurricane Alicia, I can still vividly picture the event of the 1943 Hurricane.
Over the years I have wondered why we stayed in the house in 1943. During all other hurricane threats, we always went to U.S. National Bank where our father worked and rode out the storms there.
Since reading your article relating to the German U-boats lurking in the Gulf and news being censored, I now know why.
Jane Keller Hime Dickinson
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