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Soggy Time in Florida

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I’m back in Austin (for a few days anyway) after spending a week or so in South Florida. As mentioned in my previous post, I was in Key West for a wedding of a good friend of mine and since we flew into and out of Fort Lauderdale, we spent some time with my college roommate and her husband. They… Read more »

Mixed Bag to Start the Year

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So, we’re 12 days into the new year… and from the title of this post, you can probably guess that it hasn’t been all gloom and doom but it certainly hasn’t been sunshine and rainbows either… I guess that’s what is called life, right? The yucky stuff – well, I caught some virus that made me feel like a truck… Read more »

Sunny Skies and a Grateful Reminder

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Here in Austin, we really were fortunate over the weekend. Hurricane Harvey (later downgraded to a Tropical Storm while parked over us) only brought some wind and rain to the area. It hardly even rained 45 minutes to the west of us – which is incredibly fortuitous because that means there was no rain upstream from us. So we didn’t… Read more »

Here Comes Harvey

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Well, I’m back in Austin and apparently just in time for the arrival of Hurricane Harvey to hit Texas. We’re supposed to get quite a bit of rain and we likely will have some flooding here; but we’re pretty far from the coast so we don’t have the concerns about the storm surge in addition to a bunch of rain…. Read more »

Flooding in the Streets

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For those of you that aren’t aware, I live in Austin, Texas. For years, we’ve been in the grip of an extreme drought. Changing climate conditions the past few weeks has brought a deluge of rain our way. Rain that was welcomed at first, but now we’ve experienced more rain in the past month that we got the entire first… Read more »