Monthly:August 2010
Five years ago this morning, hurricane Katrina made landfall near the Louisiana-Mississippi border as at Category 3 with sustained winds at 120 mph. With my wife’s family hailing from New Orleans, hurricane Katrina changed all of our lives in ways we never anticipated. These photos were take on May 28, 2006, some eight months after the storm. Most of these were taken in the 9th Ward, just a few blocks from the breach in the walls of the Industrial Canal. […]
It’s HOT in Texas at this time of the year! Having lived in the Houston area for all but two of the last 15 years, you’d think I’d be used to it, but I’m not. Sure it was hotter in Libya, I recall a few days when the thermometer showed 50 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) but that’s only because that was the top of the range for the thermometer at the airstrip. I’ve no idea how hot it really was those […]
