My family, glued to the TV set in the living room, just told me that:

1) 17 babies have been born at Broward General Hospital in the last 24 hours, and there are 46 women getting ready to deliver right now. The storm, you see, carries with it a very low atmospheric pressure. Hurricanes leave a lot more in their wake than debris.

2) One of the local shelters apparently had a man who exhibited symptoms of Tuberculosis. Not only is everyone in that shelter locked down for the hurricane, they will be quarantined until the test results are back.

So much more happens during these things than just rain falling.

Posted by Michael at September 4, 2004 04:49 PM