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Snow and Ice

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Ten inches snow. When I heard about it, I wanted to think of an angle on it. I mean it is winter. It is the season for snow. People have even written songs about. You’ve heard them. Snow Ride, White Christians, Baby, it’s Cold Outside, and on and on. You have heard them all.

It’s why they make snow plows, don’t you know? It’s why people have skis and sleds. Sometimes, I must resort to getting out a snow shovel to clear my driveway.

Wait a minute. Where did you say that snow is? It doesn’t snow there! It seldom even gets cold there. I know. It’s what my teacher told me in school and I know she wouldn’t lie to us.

But what will they do? How will the planes take off and land at the airport? Do the people there even have snow shovels? Do they know how to use them?

Well, I do guess it is weather change. Hot summers, cold winters. Sometimes, hotter. Sometimes colder. Being as I grew up in Southern California, I’m not so much of a fan of either. Although, like the rest of us, sometimes, I get a little surprised now and again.

It Seems Every Other Year

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I don’t know. Maybe my memory is just playing tricks with me. It just seems every other year Huston is being hit by bad weather. If it’s not a hurricane it’s something else. And then, of course, every time they get hit, Uncle Sam Reaches deep in his pocket to help them climb out of another disaster.

The area is subject to bad weather and it appears they do so little to plan for it. I’m no engineer, but I have noted that other places have done things to prevent so much damage. I mean people who live along rivers will generally build levees long enough to go around Houston two or three times. On the other hand, every time Houston gets hit by another storm, I see no evidence of anything they did since the last one to prevent flooding.

Has anyone checked into the possibility of building some kind of barrier even if it is nothing but dirt. My own personal opinion, those people in New Orleans aren’t too bright building part of their city below sea level, but they do make some success in holding back the tides in between floods.

This last storm that hit Houston was just a cat 1. I can’t imagine what might have happened if a cat 3 hit them. To be sure, nature does throw the unexpected storms at us. We, here in Desoto County have had our share and we even had our share of flooding. However, in between storms, we rebuild stronger and better. Each time, we do something so as we can manage the flood waters better.

One year, we were kind of pinned in to our home by a flood. That was a long time ago, maybe 40 years. Since then, the engineers have been busy. That year, the flooding came up to the end of our street. Since then, the water hasn’t gotten close. I would guess the engineers around here know what they are doing. More important, they are busy working on it. I see no evidence of anyone doing anything in Houston. It seems, each time the storms do more damage than the time before.

Can the weather still hit us. Sure. We can get hit by tornadoes. We have had a few close ones. Not much we can do about them. But if we could we would. It would seem, every time Houston gets hit, they just say, oh well. We Texans can handle it, while all the time they have a hand out to Uncle to help pay for the repairs.

Of course, I am sure there are those that ask, what can we do? I ask, what have you tried to do?

I am quick to note, Houston is not the only area always looking for rest of us to pay for their poor choice of a place to live. NY, NY has been hit by a few storms and I have been asking them why they do noting to prepare. Considering the high percentage of dems in the city, I would thing they would be doing something to brace themselves against the rising seas. As near as I can tell, they have done nothing since their last storm. It does make me wonder, how high do the oceans have to rise before there ocean water running down the the streets knee deep and into the subways. Has anyone even asked the question?

A Hurricane Made to Order

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The going green folks are busy jumping up and down and cheering saying they told us so. Every weather report makes sure to say it is the earliest hurricane that came along that strong. Of course, there is no chance of it being coincidence. As an aside, I noticed Old Joe got it wrong and simply said it was the strongest ever hurricane. I have no heard anyone correct it, so I figured I would, though few will know ever read it.

Then too, what do the going green folks say if the season turns out to be a mild one. After all, one hurricane does not a season make.

It may indeed turn out to be an active season. I am not a prophet. I’m just saying, neither are they.

I don’t suppose that the going green outfit ever consider that God might have sent the hurricane as a warning. On the other hand, maybe the natural weather is the stronger hurricanes and, up until now, he has been keeping them calm. It can work that way too, you know. He can send punishment by simply removing his protective hand.

Either way, any way, it’s just not proper for the going green folks to cheer when such tragedies occur. It is just improper for the weathermen to carry that little note in his or her voice that says, “See I told you so.” More than that, it is not nice for those who are power hungry to use the weather one day and gloss over it the next.