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Reading horribilious accounts of the wet, wide and awful while remaining safe, snug and dry may be a bookworm's naughty perversion. Or call it simple good sense to do one's seafaring while seated and ashore. At any rate, in this boating season armchair mariners have an unusually good selection of chilling watery chronicles to keep them landlocked...
...fuel the writing of a book. The result is a quirky, relaxed account, as much family journal as boat biography. Coomer, who's a novelist (Kentucky Love, The Loop), has a sure way with words, as when he tells how, a new-hatched captain, he held Yonder's "taut wet anchor line in my hand as if it were the reins to the planet...
...storms than any other state. And May is the cruelest month for tornadoes. Of all the twisters recorded in the past 44 years, more than 21% hit in May. People in central Texas are used to spring tempests, when cold fronts from the north clash with warm, wet Gulf weather. They know enough to find a ditch to lie in, or a sturdy, windowless room in the center of the house, preferably under a mattress or in a bathtub. And the citizens of Jarrell, a small town 42 miles up the interstate from Austin, did have time to take precautions...
However CSO output only occurs in extremely wet storms and is a mixture of raw sewage and rainwater that seeps into overflowing sewage systems. It is a concrete problem which can be easily solved if money is provided to update disposal systems...
...wet, chilly Sunday in the first round of the NCAA tournament against B.U. (10-6-3), Harvard's hopes seemed as gloomy as the afternoon. Terrier forward Nick Bone scored on a cross pass from back Dean Smith in the first 52 seconds...