Posted on 05/30/2015 7:55:36 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
“What do floods in Texas have to do with the coming Ice Age?” asks reader Caroline Snyder.
“Quite a lot actually!
“Looking at the historic record, we only have to go back to the 16th Century; a time when the Little Ice Age was causing devastation across Europe, but what of the South-West US?“
This article, amongst other things, looks to first hand accounts by Europeans amongst other things.
Little Ice Age
(Excerpt) – “…if you think it’s cold here in the Southwest now, you should have been around back in the days when the Spanish, Mexicans and Anglos settled in the region, during the period scientists call the “Little Ice Age.” A world-wide phenomenon that lasted from the 15th century well into the 19th century, the Little Ice Age brought frigid winter weather and powerful storms to many parts of the world. In Europe, England’s Thames River and the Netherlands’ canals and streams often froze over, setting a tableau for ice skating. Europe’s Atlantic coast suffered winter storms of violent and bone-chilling winds and torrential rains. In Iceland, miles of sea ice surrounded the shorelines of the island like a massive collar, shutting down marine traffic. In New York City in 1780, the harbor froze over, offering residents a frigid walk from Manhattan to Staten Island. In our Southwestern region, the icy winters and substantially foreshortened and drier growing seasons may have forced the Puebloan Indians to give up agriculture in many areas.
http://www.desertusa.com/mag05/feb/cold.htm
AND(Excerpt) – For men accustomed to tailored clothing, walking about the Texas landscape in the middle of the Little Ice Age, sparsely clad or naked, it probably seemed very cold indeed. As reported by Oviedo, “the north [wind] blows in winter, when even the fish freeze, inside the sea, from the cold” and a single day would bring “snow and hail.” Indeed, fish kills due to extreme winter cold fronts are well documented along the Texas coast today.
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/cabeza-cooking/survivors.html
Nah; I’ll just do more plowing tomorrow and spit more diesel hydrocarbons into the air, but tonight I will just throw another log in the fireplace, it’s still colder than a well diggers wazoo up here.
Kind of like California, huh.
Except you have a few politicians that aren’t complete idiots, like all of ours are.
Straight pipes and no catalytic converters.
Gonna ride that Harley every chance I get.
LOL
Boacondarattlerblizzard.
>> Everybody go out and put bricks on the gas pedals of your SUVs!
No way! Fuel costs money!
However, that big ol’ pile of tires in the back forty... burning them is FREE. Can’t wait for the next Erf Day Bonfire! :-)
No.
Floods happen.
It’s called *weather*.
Next stupid question.
Vaughan adopted the song, which was composed by Larry Davis, (and a trumpeter named Joe Scott) written in '55, first released(?) in 1958. It had been something of a blues standard, long before Vaughan's version was a big hit.
More at:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/05/27/the-insane-amount-of-rain-thats-fallen-in-texas-visualized/
>>> Texas floods are swift and unforgiving. <<<
Yes, Ma’am! Folks here don’t realize that there’s solid limestone 6 inches down and no place for the water to go after the first inch of rain.
uhh, that should have been “unleashed”.
The flooding is on about a 20 year cycle. Back in the mid ‘70s Southeast Texas saw snow in the winter and flooding in the late spring/early summer.
Then again in the ‘90s.
Now in 2015. Go figure.
As I recall, there was massive flooding of the Liberty river that caused serious problems in the flat lands around Houston. This in spite of a large dammed lake up stream built to prevent just such an occurrence.
Beautiful Stevie Ray Vaughan RIP
BS.
Been happening for thousands of years.
How do you think all those ravines were created? Flash Floods.
How come nobody says anything about the dearth of hurricanes over the past several years?
The “predictions” that I have heard from a lot of the AGW crowd are actually postdictions, where one claims to have foreknowledge after the fact.
Oh. Of course. And an even better point
I should have looked that up. I know several was not a songwriter.
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