Sunset , 08 / 03 / 2010

I went to the store last night and silly ol' me forgot to take my camera with me so i missed out on a great opportunity to take some really nice picture of a really beautiful sunset ! *sigh*
I did manage to take these pictures after i got home though ! :)

Hot ! Hot ! Hot !

Weather wise it has been quiet lately unless you count hot and dry (Humidity is coming back as we speak though) weather as exciting then you're probably on cloud 9 right now ! ;-)
This is how our skies look like right now:

Thunderstorm , Saturday ,July 24th , 2010

Here a few pictures i took of a severe warned thunderstorm that BLEW through earlier tonight ! I did go inside once the lightning started ! I always intend to get some pictures of lightning strikes but i always chicken out ! ;-)
This storm had some very strong winds and lot's of lightning with it ! It blew our daughters plastic chairs around and also knocked down a bunch of (small) tree limbs and branches !

Sunset , June 5th 2010

Just some random pictures

Here are just a few random pictures ! Weatherwise it has been quite and boring here lately and way too hot ! We rarely go outside anymore ! We did today and what do i find slithering around in a small tree - Snakes ! TWO of them ! Yikes !!!! I ain't going back out there anytime soon ! ;-)

Enjoy ! ;-)

It's been a while...

These are some pictures from Hurricane Alex (or at least some of his outer bands we received) , who made landfall at the end of June in Northeastern Mexico.

Hurricane Season

Yesterday , June 1st , marked the start of the 2010 Hurricane Season !
NOAA is predicting a VERY busy season for the Atlantic Basin !

* 14 to 23 Named Storms (top winds of 39 mph or higher), including:
* 8 to 14 Hurricanes (top winds of 74 mph or higher), of which:
* 3 to 7 could be Major Hurricanes (Category 3, 4 or 5; winds of at least 111 mph)

That is a lot ! Much more then your average forecast !
The Pacific already had it's first named Storm of the season - Agatha , which claimed approx. 179 lives across Central America !

I thought i would post some pictures from Hurricane Ike that blew through SE Texas in 2008 ! It devastated parts of Galveston Island , High Island , Bolivar Peninsula .....
Here are some Before & After pictures from USGS : (pay special attention to compariosn number 5 )
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/ike/photo-comparisons/galveston.html

Hurricane Ike was awful ! I don't think i have ever been so afraid in my life ! I was up all night , while the rest of my family slept through it , i still don't know how they did that ! The Sounds the Wind made are still branded in my memory ! I never knew this House could make such noises ! It was so loud ! The Winds howled for , what i thought must've been 5 , 6 hours , then we got a break for about an hour as they Eye of the Storm moved over us and then Round number 2 started ! This one was less scary because by that time it was already daylight and i could see what was going on outside !
To think that Ike was "Only" a category 2 (almost cat 3) storm and the damage it caused is unbelievable ! Ike had a Storm surge of a Category 5 storm !!!

I hope we won't have to deal with another "Ike" anytime soon !

Here are the "After" pictures from our place :