Texas Back Porch: September 2011

The Texas Back Porch is that special place where you go to relax in a rocking chair and let your mind wander...from the Guadalupe Mountains to the East Texas pines, from the South Texas prairies to the Gulf of Mexico, experiencing hill country breezes, longhorns, horses, armadillos, country music, and Tex-Mex foods, yet not forgetting the dreadful Texas heat, rattlesnakes, and everybody's awful Texas drawl. Yes, Texas is a vast state, from out of the rugged and romantic West, where the beautiful and the brutal strangely blend and they're all topics to talk about on the Texas Back Porch.

Friday, September 2, 2011

So Near, Yet So Far

When tv images showed the formation of a tropical storm in the Gulf, we all hoped it would bring us some rain. But we can only watch with a longing eye as the system slowly drifts toward Louisiana, with only a sliver of east Texas to have any chance of getting even a little water from the sky.

The Weather Channel today showed images of New Orleans bracing for flooding from Tropical Storm Lee. This storm has very little in the way of winds, but will dump lots of rain in its path. Rain that Texas needs so badly.