Magnificent Mother Nature
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This day in 2008
Hurricane Ike made landfall just east of Galveston, then slammed into Houston
Although it got nowhere near the national media attention as Katrina, Ike was a bad boy
I am a surfer and have spent years chasing the swells from things up and down the Texas coastline - and this one covered more area than any Ive seen -- at one point, it basically filled the entire Gulf.
It completely uprooted a beautiful 100 yr old oak tree in my backyard and knocked it onto my roof, poking a large hole through it -- which made for a very long night of attempting to mitigate water damage as the rain just kept coming. Others had it worse. A pine tree literally split the house of my neighbor in half (I mean tree trunk to slab, front door to back door)
In the end, I did get a new roof out of it (the following January -- yay USAA)
Hurricane Ike made landfall just east of Galveston, then slammed into Houston
Although it got nowhere near the national media attention as Katrina, Ike was a bad boy
I am a surfer and have spent years chasing the swells from things up and down the Texas coastline - and this one covered more area than any Ive seen -- at one point, it basically filled the entire Gulf.
It completely uprooted a beautiful 100 yr old oak tree in my backyard and knocked it onto my roof, poking a large hole through it -- which made for a very long night of attempting to mitigate water damage as the rain just kept coming. Others had it worse. A pine tree literally split the house of my neighbor in half (I mean tree trunk to slab, front door to back door)
In the end, I did get a new roof out of it (the following January -- yay USAA)
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Old school type of cougar on someone's car in his driveway in San Jose, CA on Tuesday
story with video http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/10/08/mountain-lion-hangs-out-on-san-jose-mans-car/
story with video http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/10/08/mountain-lion-hangs-out-on-san-jose-mans-car/
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Ike - 95 mph sustained winds at my ranch near Navasota. One of my Longhorns appeared to be running with the wind - at 90 mph. When she hit the barn, she nearly ran through the back of it. 
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