[Rhodes22-list] Cold weather hits the tropics!

[Herb Parsons]

It's a little after 9 pm here in N TX right now, but it hit here hours
ago. I was out buying a printer for my wife's Christmas present (no one
jump for it, it's what she asked for) around 2, and could only go about
20 down hwy 26 because of the snow. Bad weather, bad. Go away. Hope it's
warm enough to go to to Louisiana again this weekend, plan on spending
next week out there working on the Coronado.

>>> jdwhite at utpa.edu 12/22/2004 12:49:39 PM >>>
Wellll...my gloating over our warm and tropical clime is about to come
to 
an abrupt halt. We're due to get a big inflow of very cold air starting

tomorrow, in fact freezing temperatures and sleet are even in our
forecast. 
To top it off, I am the regional coordinator for the sea turtle
stranding 
network, and will be on call (and probably at the lab) throughout the
event 
including Christmas day and beyond (it's scheduled to warm up by the
first 
of next week). The problem is our bay is quite shallow, and rapidly
falling 
water temperatures sends the critters into a state of shock, so the
next 
several days will be sea turtle central here at the lab as we try and
take 
care of them until the water warms up enough to release them back into
the 
wild. Gosh, it's so romantic being a marine biologist.....

Doesn't look like I'll be roasting my nuts by the home fire this
Christmas eve!
Happy Holidays ya'll.
jw
Jim White
Le Menagerie

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