A year ago, Tropical Storm Erin tracked across Texas, and then finally into Oklahoma.  I wrote about the storm in a piece titled Hurricane Oklahoma.  Here is the report I filed:

“I somehow managed to sleep through a storm Sunday night that can only be described as Hurricane Oklahoma.  Radar images from the Oklahoma Mesonet revealed a picture of a storm unlike any other that has ever occurred, not just in the United States but anyplace in the world.  Re-enervated Tropical Storm Erin was to blame.  Winds reached near-hurricane proportions and the storm dropped twelve inches of rain, flooding and causing major destruction from Piedmont to Kingfisher.

The yearly rainfall in Oklahoma is already more than twenty inches over average.  Erin preceded Hurricane Dean, the first major storm of the year in the Gulf of Mexico.  Dean, a category five hurricane, is on a direct course to ravish the Yucatan Peninsula within the next few hours.  Following less than two years after the massive destruction of Rita and Katrina, Dean is a but a harbinger of the tremendous climate changes being seen around the world, and during the world-class storm felt Sunday right here in Oklahoma.”

My house flooded and amazingly, I even received help from FEMA (I’m not making this up!) to repair the damage.  Tonight, the remnant of Hurricane Gustav is bearing down on Edmond after pummeling Louisiana for the past two days.  The rain has already begun in warm, fat drops.  Yet another storm that began weeks ago on the west coast of Africa is preparing to drop bucket loads of rain on Oklahoma; and with all the forethought of the school dunce, even after last years disaster I still didn’t bother getting flood insurance.

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