Hurricane Rita
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As of this morning at 7am this was the latest on what was happening with our tropical weather
As the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina nears, federal, state and local officials along the Gulf Coast are keeping a wary eye on Tropical Storm Gustav and preparing for the worst.
The storm, [...]

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The weather here has been very dry…at least until the past week or so. We have been having a spring-like amount of rain. After complaining for so long about the lack, it seems almost sacrilegious to say anything about the water we needed so bad.
After months of not having to mow on [...]

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In the midst of August, spring appears to have triumphantly — if temporarily — returned to Houston.
Steady rainfall has delivered a blessed week of lower-than-normal temperatures, and Tuesday’s high reached only 81 degrees, which is more typical of late April than mid-August.
Wednesday’s mercury reached a comparatively warm 84, but the daily high remained 10 degrees [...]

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Anything Wendell Berry writes is worth the time it takes to digest…My recommendation is to go spend some time today with the man…
The general reaction to the apparent end of the era of cheap fossil fuel, as to other readily foreseeable curtailments, has been to delay any sort of reckoning. The strategies of delay, so [...]

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