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I remember Alice quite well. It washed away whole graveyards in northern PA (Wilkes-Barre et al.) and the coffins were found for miles downstream. Grisly.
There is a story about the hurricane of 1938 (this was before we started giving them names.) A fellow in NE had just brought a new barometer home and he couldn't get it to read anythign except "hurricane." He took it to the post office to mail it back and when he returned home the house was gone.
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Since hurricanes on the US East coast are spawned by tropical depressions, could we just seed the clouds with Prozac?
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Or mass-medicate all residents of the Tropical Zone with Prozac.
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Do you have any idea how much that stuff costs?  I hear it is quite expensive (I work in a drugstore). Maybe now that there is a generic(saw the e-mail at work this morning) it could be more cost-effective to throw it up into the clouds. How about over Afghanistan? 
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Dear Consuelo: As if I was trying to make drug stocks going up. I was just trying to avoid an air pollution problem.
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Dear Consuelo: As if I was trying to make drug stocks go up. I was just trying to avoid an air pollution problem.
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Please! Is there anything you can do to make MY stock go up? Pretty Pretty Please! I figure I only need about 5 more splits before I can retire to someplace warm on a beach where everyone calls me Consuelo (off in my own little dreamland-e) 
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Prozac over Afghanistan? Could rename the nation Prozakistan.
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wwh wrote : In 1938 we didn't even know it was a hurricane until after it was over.
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True! I was nine years old and had about 10 days of no school before the electricity was restored. Mother cooked on a coal fired old black stove that she had providentially insisted be connected in the cellar "in case of emergency!" A very forward looking woman, my Mother. The furnace was coal fired so we had heat.
In the '70s storm I was a reporter in our Seacoast town when I got outside I sunk up to my hips in the snow ... really. Got to work courtesy of a friendly snow plow operator. Only three came into the office. Two were "children" of newspaper families. The third one eventually became a managing Editor. He had grasped the main fact of newspaper life : when things are at their worst is when we were most needed at work.
I could go on for three pages about the ensuing week, including anecdotes about how the Fire Department "lost" a pumper because of flooding by tides and snow, while trying to evacuate people living next to the marsh! But enough! More than you wanted to know.
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Prozac over Afghanistan? Could rename the nation Prozakistan.This in a country whose main export is opium? What's the point? Now if one were to use Viagra it would be Cockystan.  Oops, I'm sounding like Dr. Bill!
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