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Ex-Texas Mayor on hurricanes
Brut America
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3/25/2025
This ex-Texas mayor has lived through his share of hurricanes. He says Harvey is the worst he's seen.
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I made fun of the weathermen, saying they're overplaying it, and they weren't.
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I was in this house in 1970, Hurricane Celia,
00:21
and I thought they couldn't get any worse than that.
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This one was worse than that. It was absolutely mind-boggling. The winds were horrific,
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windows were shaking, the flyboard was shaking. We would hear these loud cracks, and it was
00:52
it was five and six foot diameter oak trees breaking. It was really, it was really horrific.
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I made fun of the weathermen, saying they're overplaying it, and they weren't. It grew,
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it got big, it was dangerous. Everybody should have left,
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and I might be somewhere else on the next one if I live that long.
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