#water-stats

June 27, 2018:  Summer has officially started and things are heating up. My mind is perhaps addled by the heat but I have been thinking San Leon needs a wall.  It would not have to be too long, a couple miles at most. I have never been too sure about where the boundaries are for San Leon so we would have to make sure not to include any of Texas City or Bacliff behind the ‘Wall’. Maybe we could…

February, 2018:  November around the Bay was warm (Degree Days cooling 5.0, Degree Days heating 2.5).  December came along (Degree Days cooling .6, Degree Days heating 11.7). Degree Daysis a measure of energy used for either cooling or heating. For November, twice as much energy was used for cooling as heating (5.0 vs 2.5). For December much more energy was used for heating and this continued…

I’ve Seen Fire and I’ve Seen Rain.

December 8,2017:  If you have watched the news lately you have probably seen the hell-fire Santa Anna winds blowing down upon Los Angeles. The beginning days of December have brought the Galveston Bay area lots of rain and today I guess you could change the lyrics to James Taylor’s song to ‘I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain, and SNOW‘.  I woke up early this morning in San Leon to see a light…

Hurricane Karma and the Salt of San Leon

September, 2017: Unlike the story in my third San Leon novel, Hurricane Karma and the Salt of San Leon, hurricane Harvey did not bring exceptional good luck to one popular member of our little community, nor did it bring much salt.  San Leon was lucky, especially compared to some of our neighbors in Dickinson or Friendswood. We had some isolated flooding but no significant storm surge or high…

Taxing times in Galveston County

  May 11, 2017: As spring turns into fall along the Bay fishing starts to heat up, people get outdoors more often, and the yearly property tax appraisals start showing up.  I was unpleasantly surprised last year when my property value was appraised 37% higher than the previous year.  I foolishly assumed this would probably be the end for increases of that magnitude when along came this year’s…

Winter Blow-out, Spring has Sprung, almost!

  February 8, 2017:

Global warming, I like it! The last gasp of old man winter blew out the water in San Leon as the picture above from January 22nd shows. I don’t mind warmer weather, in fact I love it. Let’s grow wheat in Alaska and surf the South Pole. I don’t expect much more cold weather, maybe a series of weak cool fronts but doubt we get more freezes. Lots of building and selling of…

Red State in the morning, Liberal take warning!

November 11, 2016:  Whew!, It is finally starting to feel like fall. The steak of warm weather has come to an end and this week we are having some seasonal weather. Regards to all our veterans today on this special day celebrating their service. The presidential election is over thank God and most folks in San Leon should be happy with the results. Luckily we are in a ‘Red’state as I have heard…