I was at the Rio Grande Valley Stock Show in Mercedes, TX and saw what was one of the funniest things I can recall…kids riding sheep! Since this was my first rodeo experience I certainly had a memory I won’t soon forget and look forward to going back next year. Technorati Tags: funny, kids, RGV, Rio [...]
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This past weekend a friend told me about Donna’s Corn Maze located in Donna, TX. While this may not be of interest to all my readers I thought I would pass it along to my friends in the Rio Grande Valley. This appears as if it may be a fun place to take the childern [...]
Image by andreaweckerle via Flickr A recent Brownsville Herald article provides some hope that for alternative energy with the first home in a planned development that has a wind turbine. The development will encourage home owners to install wind generators, solar panels, and other alternative fuel sources. All homes will be grid connected with “reverse [...]
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I was reading an article in my local newspaper this morning in which a lawsuit was has been filed for an injunction against building a wind farm in south Texas. As I read the article I was disappointed that this is another example of why alternate energy policies are destine for failure in the United [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]