Tropical Storm Isaac/Update
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 26-08-2012
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Update date on Isaac….It was not Florida that was hit but Louisiana. There is something just not right about New Orleans. Any of you that have spent time in the New Orleans airport and looked up at the mast of passing ships realize that just ain’t right.The Mississippi River is what?, 21 feet above the level of the city of New Orleans???.That can’t be right, but that’s what they say. One day that will be, how shall I say this, a leveling of this river and the city of New Orleans will be moved. I don’t know when, but it will happen sooner or later in my opinion. For me, I would move to higher ground.NOW. But if you folks want to continue to live there, go ahead, but it ain’t kosher for a river to be higher than the surrounding town. That is a disaster waiting to happen.They will need several little guys with their fingers in the dike, or levee in this case, huh?.Now don’t jump on me folks, I know you love that city, but it is not right……Now, the original post…..
I was reading this morning where Isaac would wreck havoc on Florida in the next couple of days. Wind and rain, probably flooding. I would hate to have storms like that coming toward our home and I hope all will be well with the residents who live in that area. Out here in New Mexico, our storms are usually blowing dust. Folks down in Florida probably wonder what the heck that would be like…Well, its pretty bad, believe me on that. Would you folks believe that about fifty miles of the Rio Grande River is dry? Yep, just south of Albuquerque the river runs dry. We cannot keep enough water in it to keep the catfish going. I think most of the water south of T or C, coming out of Elephant Butte Reservoir, belongs to Texas. Our farmers in the Hatch/Las Cruces area are needing water but its just not there. Our monsoon this year has been a bust for the most part. We have had rain here and there, just not enough of it. We are not giving up but we wish we could have just a little of Isaac, not a whole lot mind you, but a little bit. Well, we should be careful about what we wish for, huh?….Pete
It’s not all good in the path of Isaac at least as far as the Mississippi River is concerned. The Mississippi River is so low that Isaac is likely to fill up the basin around New Orleans with so much salt water that New Orleans drinking water will be contaminated for years or, at least, until the next Mississippi River flood when it will be flushed out at great cost to the ecology of the area. All may be not well with the “Father of Waters”. At least, there will be water. That may be better than having no water. New Mexico is dry. It has been dry for years, and it likely will remain dry for many more years, thus no Obama change is on the immediate horizon. It’s still a beautifully, enchanted state, though.
I thought the Rio Grande at Albuquerque has been dried up for years. I used to walk across the Central Avenue bridge looking for the river, and was unable to see any water. That’s when I came to the conclusion that this river was enchanted, like the state.
No, it has always run thru Albq since I have been here. Not so south of here. Anyway, we can handle the dry, thats what we do best…..
Always! Always is a long time. In the ’65 to ’66 timeframe, I walked across the Central Avenue Bridge. I always walked, and I viewed the scenery and the “enchantment” from the ground up. This is the way to see the lay of the land. It is the way that Jesus saw his home in Israel. I didn’t have 21st century Albuquerque traffic to thread my way through. In the course of my very slow walk across the bridge, I believe I would have seen it if there had been any flowing water going underneath. I do remember seeing wet mud (or sand) though. If there was any flowing water, it must have been flowing underground. In all fairness, I guess I was looking for the kind of water I was used to seeing flow underneath the Black Warrior River Bridge in Tuscaloosa; or, at least, the little bit of water flowing underneath the Coal Fire Creek Bridge in Coal Fire through the old swimming hole where all of us kids were baptized. This is when I began to re-adjust my thinking to the enchantment which is New Mexico. I hated it in the beginning (because of the difference and the change), but I grew to love it in the course of the next four years. Obama change is nothing compared to this kind of change. I would really love to retire there someday in the not-to-distant future. Now, I must convince my wife of the benefits of a dry climate, that growing Filipino veggies in the backyard isn’t everything, but they sure do taste good. It will be difficult for her to adjust to dry land farming.