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Showing posts with label Houston County. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houston County. Show all posts
Friday, May 24, 2019

Not a Tornado or Even a Thunderstorm

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Earlier this morning minor storms passed through leaving more rain than fury. However, after they had vacated I noticed the freshly repaired...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

38 Degrees Below Zero

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The title says it all, we hit –38 F overnight with windchill taking it down another ten degrees below the base temperature. I thought thirty...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

After the Rain

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It hasn’t been a good year, but there have been worse ones, or so I try to remind myself. The world hasn’t been filled with much in the way...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Yucatan Floods 2016 Edition

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Torrential rain and over saturated soil combined to cause more flooding in the SE Minnesota area with Yucatan Valley being no exception. We ...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Autumn Is Called Fall for Good Reason

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Seeing the best Fall colors in years has driven me slightly crazy this month. In trying to get back into photography, the lure of brightly c...
Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Testing the FujiFilm HS25EXR, Part 2

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More fooling around without a clue in order to see Fuji’s camera can do. As will become obvious, there is a lot to be learned yet. More phot...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

One Week Later: Scars of the Flood

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A sunny July 1st provided an opportunity to get a close up look at two places in the Yucatan Valley heavily damaged by the flooding on June ...
Monday, July 08, 2013

The Day After the Flood

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Floods do a lot of damage and the full extent of it doesn’t show up until after the water recedes. With that in mind, I went out and took so...

Better Pictures of the 2013 Yucatan Flood

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All photos are courtesy of Randy Roland, neighbor and friend. Most of the following pictures were taken around 10:00 AM and show some differ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The Yucatan Valley Flood of 2000

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Digging through my digital photographs, I did not find anything from the first flood that I photographed here in Yucatan. However, I did fin...
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Monday, June 24, 2013

One Day Later

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The flooding has subsided in Yucatan valley leaving mud and debris in the fields. Unfortunately, two waves of storms may hit the area betwee...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Videos of the Yucatan Valley Flooding

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I took a few videos with my trusty old Canon PowerShot S1 IS to give an idea what it is to see flood waters up close and personal. Unfortun...

More Flood Pictures

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My neighbor Randy, my dad, and I went out to get another look at the flooding at Noon. Much to our relief the waters were going down in Yuca...

Yucatan Is Flooding

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There isn’t going to be a lot of text for this, I took these pictures shortly after 5:00 AM. Large amounts of rain has produced flooding and...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

So I’m Thinking of Building an Ark…

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…Not because I want to or have been commanded to, but because the rain keeps coming. There is a large amount of water standing in the fields...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Memorial Day 2013

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It is a rainy and cold day that adds a somber atmosphere to the day set aside in the United States to remember those who have given the ul...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

April Hail

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This is supposed to be the season of April showers to bring forth May flowers, but what does April hail bring? We had quite a storm here l...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

A Couple of Pests

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While perusing the news, I ran across two articles about invaders. One is an invader of the blood stream and the other of trees. Both are co...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Turkey Day in March

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Hey, if you can have Christmas in July events this should be allowable, right? Anyway, this was the scene outside the house during the snow ...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Hokey Smoke!

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While finishing up the Beowulf review tonight, I heard a loud impact on the air conditioner. Sometimes a panicked cat will jump up there, s...
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