Category Archives: Weather/Climate

Frigid

Posted on December 17, 2007 | Comments Off on Frigid

Gracious. It’s 10 a.m. and the temperature is only just now rising into the lower forties. Winter has come awfully early. I hope this means January will be warmish. Nothing like a leisurely sail in January’s sun to remind why one lives in Tejas.

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The Northeast Kingdom

Posted on December 15, 2007 | Comments Off on The Northeast Kingdom

Joe Bol, an OCS classmate, rare reader and sometime commenter hereabouts, checked himself into the hospital this morning with his laptop and may be facing an angioplasty on Monday. Good timing, actually, as he will miss the nor’easter expected to plaster his part of Vermont on Sunday with up to twenty inches of snow. Good luck, Joe. We’ll be thinking about you.

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Freeze and then some

Posted on December 15, 2007 | Comments Off on Freeze 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 tonight and a deeper one tomorrow night. Don’t think I have enough covers for the outdoor faucets. Could have bought more at Lowe’s. Come to think of it, they had several big boxes of them arrayed up and down the center aisle near the registers. I wondered about it. Now I know why. Will have to use a towel for one or two faucets, I guess. Curiously enough, there’s also a possible brush fire warning from all the wind today. But, having little brush around the rancho, I believe we can just let that one go.

UPDATE: The freezes went okay, but I couldn’t get the toilet’s inflow shut off to fix the flapper. Something tells me something worse is going on. I called a plumber and await his ministrations.

MORE: He came, he tinkered, he resolved the problem with a new fill valve, wall shutoff and water hose. Said the flapper was okay all along. Problems that start out small have a way of becoming larger at the rancho. Sigh. 

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From warm to chill

Posted on December 12, 2007 | Comments Off on From warm to chill

No ice storms, thank goodness, just a radical shift from yesterday’s high of almost 80 degrees to today’s forecast high of almost thirty degrees lower. Gentle rain out there this morning. Typical winter in South Central Texas, though a bit earlier than usual this year.

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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

Posted on December 6, 2007 | Comments Off on Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

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What that freak Hawaii blizzard looked like on weather radar. Accuweather’s Jesse Ferrell says it’s happened before.

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Blizzard warnings in Hawaii

Posted on December 6, 2007 | Comments Off on Blizzard warnings in Hawaii

Up to six inches of snow possible. Gore the Bore must be in the islands for a Global Warming Scam conference. Wonder if the happy Hawaiians even know how to make snowballs, let alone snowmen?

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Global baloney

Posted on November 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Global baloney

Anything Al Gore, Hollywood, the United Nations and the European Union agree on must be a crock.

UPDATE:  At least Gore’s web site is good for something, i.e. hawking pharmaceuticals. 

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