Pray for the families of the victims of the Texas flooding
Extensive flooding in central Texas around Kerrville and Hunt. 24 confirmed dead. Many remain missing. A disproportionate share of the missing are children. This is a good time to send up some prayers for miracles.
The seed-list for the fall garden:
Beets: Boro. It was a toss-up between Boro and Merlin. I am not a huge fan of beets but Mrs ERJ likes them. Hybrid beet seeds seem to have more seedling vigor than open-pollinated varieties.
Broccoli: Happy Rich, a cut-and-come-again variety. The majority of broccoli varieties are selected for commercial growers who want to harvest a crop and then immediately turn around and plant another crop. Happy Rich cheerfully keeps sending up (small) stems of broccoli.
Cucumber: Max Pak...not technically a fall vegetable but it might be worth putting plastic over to extend the season. Max Pak is a hybrid, pickling cucumber with a broad spectrum of disease resistance.
Chinese Cabbage: Citrus. Large and suitable for kimchi or stir-fry
Radish: Summer Cross #3 Daikon. As close as you can come to a "classic" hybrid Daikon radish.
Turnip and kale self-seed here.
A Summer camp flash flood. Search and rescue still ongoing.
ReplyDeleteWeather Channel was covering it with professionalism and sympathy. How could they warn folks even better that flash floods were possible in that area tomorrow. They did say that yesterday yet folks still want to camp out next to a gurgling river-gully of many decades of flash flooding.
Ryan Hall warned of this massive rainfall well before it occurred, so it isn't like the information to be prepared was not available.
ReplyDeleteNOAA did put out warnings, but I'm betting since it was after 0100, many were missed... Many prayers for those missing and their families. Up to 32 dead as of this morniing.
ReplyDeletePraying for the dead and missing in this tragedy. I think they may need a siren like Valdez Alaska has. I don’t think it was ever used for real but when I lived there they tested it regularly! If the Solomon Gulch dam is breached it would send a wall of water across the bay into town. Since they are earth quake prone (1964 for example) . A high level of stream side usage would make it worth wile to install one!
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