We’re thirteen and a half feet above last year’s level on this date, with the Phatwater on the Natchez gage today coming in at: 40.56′ There’s a good bit of drift in the river, as there often is during a rise. Yesterday’s 2.25 inches of rain did little to knock the pollen from the air, [...]
At present the Phatwater on the Natchez gage is at: 39.9′ thirteen feet above this date a year ago, where at present we are being hounded by a rip-snorting rain that continues to replenish our aquifers and make us the envy of all whose vistas are carpeted in sand and tumbleweed. At last look, at [...]
Phatwater on the Natchez gage today is at 31.88′ and dropping, down from last year about 9 and a half feet. Chris VanMeter writes from Milwaukee to report temps there at -10° yesterday. Here, it is 74°. Here, the population density per square mile is 70. There, the population density is 9948. There are, in [...]
Phatwater on the Natchez gage today is: 42.43′ Today’s will be the last blog post from this old site. I am working with Allen Hancock to move the new site online, and he has requested we do so either today or tomorrow. I think I’ve mentioned Allen here before. He is owner of Mac Consulting [...]
Math for idiots. We’ve dropped a four tenths of a foot on the Phatwater since yesterday, which is the same as a fifth of a foot, or 20 percent, which according to English measurements would be 2.4 inches, which puts us at 45.81′ on the Natchez gage. I did some checking and the [...]
Yes, there have been mistakes, and there will continue to be mistakes, but keep in mind that while “Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me . . .”, Here we have but a staff of one.
Yesterday we were a foot and a half below flood stage at Natchez though today the Phatwater on the Natchez gage has dipped to 46.2′ the current level undoubtedly being influenced by the 5+”s of rain to which we’ve most recently been subjected. As this rain which moved north and east of us, continues to [...]
We are at 46.1′ on the Phatwater Natchez gage today under leaden, dreary skies of the kind I find quite enjoyable for doing what I am presently doing, which is sitting before the Weather Channel broadcast with the volume turned off, and wondering at the edge of my faculties and considerable imagination what on Earth [...]
Not long in my past I found myself on a family oriented “furniture” mission to north Texas, on my way to a neighborhood where a lot of people with a great deal of money and very little imagination or concern for open space reside beneath the thundering roar of 787s and against the brush of [...]
Windy would best describe the sort of weather we are beneath at the moment, although Wendy might not. I don’t know anyone by the name Wendy although I do know Phatwater veteran Rebecca Amerson, from Eutawville, South Carolina, who goes by Wyndy, and who, in the manner of a wanderer with a pebble in her [...]
