Only In Texas....

[DKTanker]

On 7/7/2024 at 1:22 PM, Murph said:

Yup, wild and wooly Texas.  

Did you get wet today?

[Murph]

We got a very little bit of rain late in the day, but the internet was down from noon till 2000 yesterday.  Relaxing actually, but I needed to send some emails.  

 

How about you?  I understand Houston got a pretty good amount of water.  

[Murph]

This:

 

[NickM]

23 minutes ago, Murph said:

We got a very little bit of rain late in the day, but the internet was down from noon till 2000 yesterday.  Relaxing actually, but I needed to send some emails.  

 

How about you?  I understand Houston got a pretty good amount of water.  

Meanwhile,  the panic mongers on the "Net are all shrieking that the Midwest are going to die from the heat

[Ivanhoe]

4 hours ago, Murph said:

How about you?  I understand Houston got a pretty good amount of water.  

Houston always gets flooded.

If El Paso gets hit with thunderstorms, Houston gets flooded.

I have a couple of friends who live in the Houston metroplex, one has a generator that he had to run for more than 24 hrs.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/infrastructure/2024/07/10/493056/houston-power-outages-centerpoint-map-beryl-wednesday/

[Murph]

Using the Whataburger app to determine areas with no power: Only in Texas:

 

 

[Murph]

And why not?  If you are stuck you might as well fish:

 

 

[Murph]

Ok, I must agree with this:

 

 

[Murph]

San Antonio right now.  92% humidity 

 

 

[Rick]

Almost four decades ago I drove from Indiana to Big Bend National Park. I remember it took longer to go from the Oklahoma-Texas border to Big Bend than it did to drive from Indiana to that border. 

[Murph]

This does not apply in Texas:

 

 

[Murph]

Yep, this:

 

 

[Stargrunt6]

On 7/17/2024 at 1:05 PM, Murph said:

Ok, I must agree with this:

 

 

BRUH

[Ivanhoe]

4 hours ago, Murph said:

Yep, this:

 

 

If you Google "Ernst Kohlberg" you'll find an interesting life story.

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/kohlberg-ernst

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Although Kohlberg was a member of the Republican party in heavily Democratic El Paso, he was easily elected to the city council in 1893. He and his wife organized the Mount Sinai Jewish Congregation in 1898, and he was a member of various clubs and organizations, including the Progress Club for German Jews, the Masons, the Shriners, the Elks, the Pioneer Society, and the McGinty Club. Kohlberg was also a director of the Terminal Association, established in 1901 to develop the Union Depot Corporation, and of the Rio Grande Valley Bank and Trust Company. He was a founder of the El Paso Electric Railway Company and the El Paso Electric Light Company. He was also the owner of the St. Regis Hotel, the site of the 1909 meeting between United States president William Howard Taft and Mexican president Porfirio Díaz, and the St. Charles Hotel in El Paso.

Another interesting thing is that Kohlberg got to Texas via NYC, and took trains to Texas. The more typical route for European Jews was to sail directly to Galveston.

[Murph]

 

[bojan]

Yes, all those parking lots...

There are some interesting and a lot of boring "cube" buildings.

[Ssnake]

It's gotten "better", from a very low starting point (1978 vs 2011):

[Murph]

Driving in Houston is the only time I have ever told my wife to shut up, and meant it.  She was scaring me to death.  I finally told her to shut her mouth, close her eyes, and let me drive.  

[Ivanhoe]

Houston = LA + humidity + mosquitoes

 

[Murph]

No kidding, Houston is miserable.  I swear the mosquitoes there are so big they have a requirement to have landing lights on them so they can land at Hobby Airport after taking on their cargo of blood.

[sunday]

21 minutes ago, Murph said:

No kidding, Houston is miserable.  I swear the mosquitoes there are so big they have a requirement to have landing lights on them so they can land at Hobby Airport after taking on their cargo of blood.

Plus they must file a flight plan!

[Murph]

Either too much or not enough:

 

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

That's the San Antonio I grew up with in the '70s.  There was one bridge that San Pedro Ave. went under that always flooded when it rained.  Same for Salado creek.

[Murph]

After the Flood of '98 they were supposed to have fixed the issue.  But it is San Antonio....

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/tiger-escaped-texas-19745216.php

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A tiger escaped from a zoo in Northern Mexico near the Rio Grande, putting Texas officials near the border on high alert. The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) is warning local residents to keep an eye out after a Bengal tiger escaped from its enclosure at the nearby Quinta La Fauna zoo in Reynosa, Mexico on Wednesday, according to a report from CBS 4 News.

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

In the forests of the night; 

What immortal hand or eye, 

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?