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Celebrating The 50th Anniversary Of Hurricane Carla-1961


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Some interesting tidbits about Carla I have learned over the years:

* ImpactWeather rates Carla as the worst US hurricane using a scale that measures both size and intensity.

* At the time, it was the largest peacetime evacuation in US History.

* The surge from Carla was so incredible, there were reports of water up to the rooftop of the Brazoria County courthouse, which is in Angleton - about 15 miles inland and well NE of the landfall location.

* Carla produced the first live television broadcast of a hurricane. The report was submitted by a then little-known local Houston reporter named Dan Rather.

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