The weather forecast had predicted a couple of days of rain, but nobody said it was going to be this severe. At 5 AM Sunday morning the sounds of thunder and rain woke me up. This morning, it was thunder that woke me up at 4 AM. There was no rain, but an amazing light […]

Eric Berger, science writer and blogger at the Houston Chronicle, has written a nice article for hurricane season: Four hurricane lessons we should have learned. His top two items align well with my observations of the Rita evacuation: traffic planning was horrendous, and gas supplies woefully inadequate. I exchanged blog comments and email with Eric […]

Most people around the nation will naturally remember the 2005 hurricane season for Katrina; after all, it all but destroyed one of our nation’s most historic cities. For those of us on the Texas gulf coast, the 2005 season will remembered as much for Rita as for Katrina. I won’t pretend that what we went […]

No, it’s not a hurricane, but it’s one nasty track of weather bearing down upon us even as I write this:

That long train of storms sticking out perpendicular to the coast appears to be headed towards the Pearland area like a javelin, so that all of it will all pass right across our house. Where […]

Somebody forgot to tell the weatherman that it’s April and springtime has arrived. It’s forty degrees here this morning, and was probably colder last night. And me without my footy pajamas…

The story of today is the weather. It was about all that Leigh Ann could talk about on the drive from the airport to Dad’s house. Many North Alabama schools let their kids out early today, in anticipation that the storms might arrive early. This system has already killed eleven people in Tennessee, and all […]

Update: We had some thunder and good rainstorms, but by 4:30 PM, the rain had cleared off, and the sun was shining.

It’s colder here in Pearland than it is in North Alabama. Let’s turn that statement around to emphasize what’s more important here: It’s warmer in North Alabama than it is in Pearlend.

Update: things have now settled down:

Yeah, it’s cold out. I think it’s refreshing when, after a long sweltering summer, we have a cold spell or two. But I’ll make no excuses about it: I’m a warm weather boy, and I’m not happy when the temperature falls into the thirties. Most of you know how, when Wendy and I got married, […]

Hurricane season may be “officially” over, but don’t tell Hurricane Epsilon. I guess hurricanes don’t keep calendars.

Today is the last day of the 2005 hurricane season, and I’m not sorry to see it end. After many years of dodging major hurricanes, we got a big-time scare this year. As it turned out, all our house saw of Hurricane Rita was tropical storm force winds; our suffering, minor though it was, was […]