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Goodbye to dry
This, compared with this from last December, shows how our south central part of Texas (and the rest of the state) has come out of a big drought in the past six months. In the last two hours, we...
View ArticleWet weekend
The sunken car in Tulsa might not look so strange around here by Monday. The weather service is calling for likely rain, possibly heavy, tonight, Saturday and Sunday. Looks like our wet spring isn’t...
View ArticleThe problem with toll roads: The signs
Toll roads are commonplace in other parts of the country but somewhat unusual down here. Which may help to explain how I got lost coming back from Temple the other day despite having driven the route...
View ArticleFreeze and then some
Rats. Mr. B. and I were just at Lowe’s to pick up a replacement flapper for the one that’s leaking in the toilet in the guest bathroom, causing it to run and run. Now I discover we’re to have a freeze...
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Wildfire danger
Meteorologists are saying our high winds, with gusts to 25 mph, bring back memories of the Dust Bowl era. I guess you’d have to be in your eighties to know for sure. But just being outside last...
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Wildfire danger
Meteorologists are saying our high winds, with gusts to 25 mph, bring back memories of the Dust Bowl era. I guess you’d have to be in your eighties to know for sure. But just being outside last...
View ArticleBlessed rain
Moisture in the upper atmosphere over the Bay of Campeche seems to be slipping into South Central Texas, thanks to a slight westward shift in the ridge that’s made Texas so brutally hot and dry this...
View ArticleThe folly with Dolly
The New Braunfels office of the weather service is forecasting potentially heavy rains south of the rancho from Dolly’s inland track, starting Wednesday night into Thursday, although no one is sure...
View ArticleLet the flooding begin
We’re under a flood advisory from the Austin-San Antonio office of the National Weather Service : "AT 644 AM CDT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WERE FALLING AT RATESAPPROACHING AN INCH AN HOUR. RAINFALL FROM...
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