From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   David Carson  wrote:   
   > On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 01:28:06 +0000, bryan_styble   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Oh, and while we're rhapsodizing about words heard during NASA missions:   
   >>   
   >>Ever wonder if, while staring up at the Moon with wonder (as all 18th and   
   19th Century folk surely often did), Sam Houston ever imagined that his family   
   surname would be among the first words said on the lunar surface?   
   >   
   > Galveston was Texas' most populous city until the hurricane of 1900   
   > devastated it. It was decided to rebuild the port in Houston, which led to   
   > that city's explosive growth. If not for the hurricane, the first word on   
   > the moon may have been derived from the name of the 49th viceroy of New   
   > Spain, Bernardo de Galvez.   
      
   Since the followup devastation of Hurricane Ike,   
   Galveston is not even the most populous city in   
   its county.   
      
   But they still have the nominal cathedral of the Archdiocese of   
   Galveston-Houston,whose offices moved in the 1950s while the see   
   was still suffragan to its once-daughter diocese of San Antonio.   
      
   I've thought that perhaps the worst plausible natural disaster   
   to potentially strike the U S of A would be a new hurricane   
   that gets as powerful as Rita at its peak (worst Gulf hurricane   
   ever) as fast as Wilma did (fastest intensification of a tropical   
   cyclone ever) at a time when many are not paying attention,   
   finishes off Galveston,heads up the Ship Channel (thereafter   
   Shipwreck Channel) and then stops over Houston and blows and   
   rains itself out.   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)