Archive for July, 2008
Lessons Learned from Hurricane Dolly (Final Thoughts)
As I think back to the events of Hurricane Dolly a week ago I a couple thoughts and lessons learned have reoccurred over the past couple days. Prepare early. My family is new to a hurricane zone and as such we hadn’t started to prepare until the days before the Dolly struck. We needed to [...]
Blogging lessons from Hurricane Dolly
Image by Getty Images via Daylife After a busy week with the hurricane I am finally getting a chance to pick up some of the information from my RSS feeds and am working through them in reverse chronological order. A couple that I regularly follow have some topics that seem relevant to some of my [...]
My Insight Into Fear
Image by Andy Ciordia via Flickr The funny thing about fear is it is often irrational. In the past I thought I was afraid of heights but to conquer the fear I went skydiving. I now realize that I wasn’t really afraid of heights, I was afraid of hitting the ground when I fell. I [...]
Hurricane Dolly Update 5
After a couple hours of sleep and spending the greater part of the morning reviewing information and communicating with work it looks like Brownsville is in the is getting the initial bands of Hurricane Dolly in land and based on a recent weather report landfall of the eye is expected between 11am and noon. Those [...]
Hurricane Dolly Update 4
According to the 10pm NOAA Update it looks like Hurricane Dolly has slowed a bit over the Gulf, is picking up strength, and land fall has been delayed from 7 am to approximately 1 pm. According to the weather.com hour-by-hour forecast we should anticipate scattered thunderstorms and growing wind starting at midnight and squalls beginning [...]
Hurricane Dolly Update 3
My wife has been photographing the cloud formation though the afternoon. The first shot below was about 10:45 am CST and the most recent was about 12:45 pm CST. For more information regarding the the disaster declaration related to Dolly you can review the following articale from the local paper. http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/texas_88560___article.html/storm_declaration.html This was a proactive [...]
Hurricane Dolly Update 2
Today things have gotten much more active for hurricane preparations. Since my last post the Rio Grande Valley has fallen under hurricane warnings, the cities are offering sandbags, more people are boarding their windows, and companies are announcing closure plans. Currently, my wife is reporting increased winds and some light rain at our home in [...]
Preparing for Hurricane Dolly
Approximately the past twenty-four hours has been a bit surreal for me. As some of my readers probably know I recently relocated to Brownsville, Texas from Wisconsin and late Sunday I got word that there is an impending tropical storm (Dolly) headed in our direction to make landfall on Wednesday, July 23rd. While I have [...]
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Every week I review a number of links about how to accomplish your goals and I have been considering a weekly wrap-up of some of the best I have found in the previous week. Below is a list of items that I enjoyed this past week: The Positivity Blog provides some great and inspiring posts [...]
Wow! The WordPress Upgrade Was Easy
I just completed the WordPress 2.6 upgradd and it was incrediably easy. The instructions simply tell you to backup the previous version, delete the previous files, run the upgrade program and thats it. Following the client upgrade you will be prompted to upgrade your plugins; for fortunatly all the plugins I use had an automatic [...]
