A Sunday Lunch::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
92 degrees and a 40% chance of rain... New hours tomorrow at the JFO so life is going back to a more normal way of doing things and fewer hours.. harder on the paycheck but easier on your body. 8-6 five days and saturday till noon is not a bad schedule. Figure an hour and a half by the pool on each weekend day and a dinner and laundry and you got a weekend.
Going for Mexican Food tonight to a place that has been recommended. No weenie Southwestern cooking here.. people would spit out cilantro.. all straight tex mex and no Beano. These folk can sure make beans though.. Had some tomato bisque at the restrauant last night and it was just the best ever.. seemed to have a bit of bacon in it and fresh tomato as base.. and floating chunks of chilis put a great bit of bite in it. The food here is fatty but not salty like Louisiana... my blood pressure for those of you that follow such stats is doing quite well.. This morning after Breakfast it was 100/60 which explains why I wanted to go back to bed and sleep some more.
Toured some of the damaged areas this morning. A remarkable number of damaged trailer houses... a FEMA trailer would be a massive upgrade for many many of them. The upshot of this flooding is the arroyos that feed the Rio Grande. The fall several hundred feet of sand covered hills leading into the drainage. These storms park and dump a couple inches of rain at a time on these spots and it goes WHOOSH downhill.. a wall of sandy muddy water that clogs drains and then spills over the walls of these dry gulches into communities.. and finally dumps several inches to feet of sandy muck into the farm land at the bottom covering crops etc... I neglected to bring my camera this time but will try to post some representative pictures from the PIO boys that have the fancy cameras...
Will know more tomorrow about how Ernesto will imapct my operation... not likely now that it is projected so far east so we can focus on the two pending declarations from New Mexico and finish this El Paso thing.......
My daily rant... Ray Nagin can kiss my sweaty white ass. He is STILL complaining about money that no responsible adult will give him. His diversion of his own lack of leadership on the "hole in the ground" in New York gets this comment from me... a year after those towers fell.. there was no debris left in place.. only a hole in the ground waiting to be rebuilt.. why are there tens of thousands of cars still rusting on the streets of New Orleans, and 85% of the original debris in place in New Orleans a year later? I will never willingly work in that state again, I may have to but I will do my minimum to get out if it does occur. People that will vote that moron back in office deserve to starve in the dark.
Going for Mexican Food tonight to a place that has been recommended. No weenie Southwestern cooking here.. people would spit out cilantro.. all straight tex mex and no Beano. These folk can sure make beans though.. Had some tomato bisque at the restrauant last night and it was just the best ever.. seemed to have a bit of bacon in it and fresh tomato as base.. and floating chunks of chilis put a great bit of bite in it. The food here is fatty but not salty like Louisiana... my blood pressure for those of you that follow such stats is doing quite well.. This morning after Breakfast it was 100/60 which explains why I wanted to go back to bed and sleep some more.
Toured some of the damaged areas this morning. A remarkable number of damaged trailer houses... a FEMA trailer would be a massive upgrade for many many of them. The upshot of this flooding is the arroyos that feed the Rio Grande. The fall several hundred feet of sand covered hills leading into the drainage. These storms park and dump a couple inches of rain at a time on these spots and it goes WHOOSH downhill.. a wall of sandy muddy water that clogs drains and then spills over the walls of these dry gulches into communities.. and finally dumps several inches to feet of sandy muck into the farm land at the bottom covering crops etc... I neglected to bring my camera this time but will try to post some representative pictures from the PIO boys that have the fancy cameras...
Will know more tomorrow about how Ernesto will imapct my operation... not likely now that it is projected so far east so we can focus on the two pending declarations from New Mexico and finish this El Paso thing.......
My daily rant... Ray Nagin can kiss my sweaty white ass. He is STILL complaining about money that no responsible adult will give him. His diversion of his own lack of leadership on the "hole in the ground" in New York gets this comment from me... a year after those towers fell.. there was no debris left in place.. only a hole in the ground waiting to be rebuilt.. why are there tens of thousands of cars still rusting on the streets of New Orleans, and 85% of the original debris in place in New Orleans a year later? I will never willingly work in that state again, I may have to but I will do my minimum to get out if it does occur. People that will vote that moron back in office deserve to starve in the dark.
posted by Steve Morse- Adventures in Disasters at 12:07 PM
2 Comments:
iiGlad to hear your BP is under control.
I'm on your side when it comes to your rant. While it is unfortunate when large disasters occur but what is the difference between the house that burns down to the ground down the street and the person whoes family member was killed in IRAQ to someone whoes home was flooded by Katrina or someone who had a family member die in the WTC. To the person that was affect, there is no difference but I don't see the goverment or the community ralling behind them and giving them large sums of money.
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