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Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. 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...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Okay, Enough with this Winter!

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This is only a short rant/documentation about the latest winter storm to hit here in Minnesota. An entire weekend gone to freezing rain, sle...
Monday, May 22, 2017

May Brings Changes

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It is said the one constant in life is change, so the events of this unfinished month are not surprising except when nature takes its course...
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, June 16, 2016

A Buggy and Stormy Start of Summer

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I haven’t been posting much due to ongoing issues with Dad’s health, my health, and no excess energy to speak of. My father ending up back ...
Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Spring Surprise

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The surprise being that this post is actually going up. Though the fact that I’m wearing a T-shirt today is surprising after last week’s sn...
Monday, February 02, 2015

February Already?

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“Tempus fugit,” said the Romans and indeed that observation still applies two millennia later. January turned out to be a bear of a month t...
Monday, November 17, 2014

The Pipes are Freezing, Danny Boy

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Struggling with an upper respiratory infection made last week difficult, yet the cold weather has been just as frustrating. Today’s fun was ...
Monday, April 14, 2014

April Snow

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Looking out the window this morning brought an unwelcome sight – almost two inches of snow. Tufts of greening grass poke out of the unwanted...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Hurry Up… and Wait

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Probably the most aggravating thing about serious illness is the uncertainty involved. One finds themselves waiting for test results, the do...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Bitter Cold, Low Blood, and the Beating of Drums

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I’ve fallen behind in posting, so I’m throwing together a variety of subjects into this one to save time. Surviving winter has become a prio...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Going with the Flow

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It has been one week since the initial round of chemotherapy for Dad and he’s survived it with no ill effects other than with my annoyance a...
Monday, February 03, 2014

Winter Woes

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This has been an unusually cold winter with days of snow falling nearly as excessive. Thankfully the latter have not resulted in very deep ...
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Sunday, January 05, 2014

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

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UPDATED: We have water again as of late last night. It turns out the wind blew out one of the small windows in the basement! Old farmhouses ...
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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