Report on Carla

BAGPIPE is indebted to THISTLEDOWN which is indebted to Cecil and Betty Brooks, who sent a thick packet of HOUSTON CHRONICLE clippings. Seabrook Sailing Club took a ferocious beating from Carla as did all the surrounding waterfront. Members who removed their boats to safe cover later returned to find the concrete block clubhouse gone except for the floor slab and scattered piles of concrete block.

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• Carla
• hurricane
• Seabrook
• Houston
• damage