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Say It Isn’t So!
Yup, today is the official start of the 2013 Hurricane season. (You have to put the year in or some people won’t know which hurricane season you’re talking about.) I blogged about preparing for the season on Monday, but today let’s talk names. I popped open the names list for the year and I have…
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Have You Started Your Hurricane Prep?
May 15th is the official start of hurricane season down here along the coast. Storms can and do start in May, but for Texas, May 15th is usually the start of hurricane preparation season. There are a lot of ways to advance prepare for a hurricane. Okay, maybe not a lot, but there are few:…
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Perilous P’s Lessons from Hurricane Ike
I was out in the truck on a lunch run when the radio news update reminded me that June 1st is the official start of the hurricane season (we’re already two letters down in storm names, so a tropical something jumped the gun). My years in the hurricane zone have certainly enlarged my understanding of…
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Hurricanes and Hubris
It’s my son’s birthday today (happy birthday!) and he loves the weather, so it seemed like a good blog topic for today. But to talk weather, I must backtrack a bit. Note land-locking! I grew up in Wyoming. If you know where it is, then you also know it is severely land-locked. Even the air…