Rainy Days

Rainy day at the lake

The days roll by and it is already into the first week of September. One of the Gulf storms is making its way through Texas. Rain is always welcome but it does create temporary flooding.

 I have a lake in the back yard but that has not been a serious flood issue [...]

Humid

The excessive Texas heat and humidity here in North Texas area have kept me pretty well out of my workshop. I can spend a few hours there with the fans blowing but then I want to escape to the air conditioning. The heat ~100 degrees is not too bad when the humidity is low, but we [...]

Weather or Not

Forget what I said on the 10th! The weather in Dallas Texas hasn’t been very nice this winter. We just set an all-time winter snowfall record of 12 inches (and more) in the area. Temperatures have been cold and the fuel bills high. Houses here are optimized for air conditioning (cooling) with return and supply air [...]

The Weather Change

This winter has been fairly amazing with the amount of storms. Here in Dallas we got a little bit of snow but a lot of rain. The Central and Eastern regions have been getting more than their share of snow.

We went through a few years of drought here in Texas but now the scale is fully [...]

Christmas Snow of ’09

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Just like the song, we had a white Christmas this year in Frisco, Texas. This is enough snow to pretty much stop everything in its track here near Dallas. Thank God [...]