No matter how many stories I read or photos I see, I continue to be shocked, daily, at the destruction in Joplin, Missouri. If you want to help, there are several good relief agencies you can donate to. Since this is a site about dogs, if you want to help the pets in Joplin, I recommend […]
Category: Weather
Just a quick note to say our area was not hit by a tornado. St. Louis did take a significant hit, though, and there are other parts of Missouri that were also hit by tornadoes. To compound the problem. rain is expected until next Thursday, so we’re also expected to get flash floods and river […]
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Happy New Year
As you can see if you’re reading this, the move to a new hosting company went very well. I’m already exceptionally pleased with Linode, not the least of which the dashboard the company provides makes maintaining the site so much easier. The only real challenges I faced were setting up the email system, and porting […]
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Too hot
Even before Summer officially starts on Sunday, we’ve had heat alerts the last two days. Combined heat and humidity has led to effective temperatures of 105 degrees. We haven’t broken upper temperature records, but we have lower temperatures in the evening. As these two Grévy’s zebras demonstrate, the only way to handle weather like this […]
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To our Southern neighbors
I can’t imagine temperatures of 117 F. I also can’t imagine being surrounded by oil rich eucalyptus trees, as flames are driven straight at your home at 65 miles per hour. The winds of hell must be an apt description. My sympathies to those of our southern neighbors in Australia that have suffered loss the last few days […]