[P-40]

Last year the Rio Grande Valley (Texas) got its first snow since the sixties....the eighteen sixties.

[Rudder]

In 1998 I got my first 100-year flood---wiped out my bridge. In 2003 I got 4 100-year floods (new bridge still standing) in the first two months of fall. The last time we any kind of flooding even close to that was in 1965.

My point: Mother Nature, and not us, controls the weather. And for the scary solutions the greens have proposed: "Don't mess with Mother Nature!"

[tarheelswamprat]

Last year the Rio Grande Valley (Texas) got its first snow since the sixties....the eighteen sixties.

That's not quite correct. There was a strange snowfall in the mid-1980s (86 or 87 I believe) that I was caught in while living in Texas. I was heading south down I-35 from Dallas on a Sunday to Del Rio on the border. It was clear when I left Dallas, but I ran into heavy snow in Austin, and almost didn't make it through San Antonio. I continued on to Del Rio that night and it snowed the whole way. Monday morning I completed my business in Del Rio and drove on to Eagle Pass. The whole border area was covered in snow and it was really jarring to see cactus sticking up out of the snow drifts.

Now that particular snow didn't extend east to the Brownsville area, so that might be what you're referring to, but it did cover quite a bit of the Rio Grande Valley. It was a really strange experience!

[rickylc]

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