SLSL "The Small Rain" -- The Hurricane

[David Morris]

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> "The whole business had clearly been a foulup on the part of the Weather
Bureau: Wednesday afternoon, when the inhabitants of the town had started to
evacuate, the bureau had issued a statement that the hurricane would not arrive
till Thursday. It urged them not to crowd the roads. There was plenty of time."
(SL 37.3-9)
> 
> "Roberts first became known for predicting hurricane behavior in 1957 when
he forecast that Hurricane Audrey would hit southwest Louisiana six or seven
hours earlier than other experts believed. More than 400 people lost their 
lives in the storm."
> http://maroon.loyno.edu/FALL%202001/083101/news/story2.html

Pynchon does seem to be modeling his story after the Hurricane Audrey disaster.
 This guy Nash Roberts is still famous and the one everyone still listens to
for advice on hurricanes.  But if Levine is supposed to have arrived on the
scene without any knowlege of the hurricane's existence beforehand, that is
very far fetched (but remember, I don't have the book SL, so I'm relying on
your second-hand description of the story).

David Morris

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