Today is the anniversary of the deadliest natural disaster in American history. On this date, September 8, 1900, a category 4 hurricane hit Galveston Island off the coast of Texas, killing over 6,000 people. This film from the History Channel’s Great Disasters series examines the folklore and fact about this storm, focusing on [...]
OK, so I’ve gathered some data from weather stations along the gulf coast to try and determine where Hurricane Gustav will hit, at least from my predictions. Now the only caveat to this methodology is that the local weather forecaster who relies only on his own instrumentation and observations might not come up with [...]
Well, I’ve been gone for a few weeks from this blogging project. Suffice it to say after my last post we saw about two weeks of rain. It didn’t rain the entire time, but it rained pretty much every day for about two weeks. To be honest, it’s the wettest August weather [...]
