posted by admin on Jun 28
Things to do in Galveston, TX
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Archive for June, 2009
posted by admin on Jun 28
2007 20th Anniversary Cruise Vacation
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posted by admin on Jun 28
We took a condo in Galveston, Texas, and did some exploring. We checked out the Strand, checked out the port area, and visited Moody Gardens. We spent the week looking at beach houses, swimming in the surf, and even stocked up on books at the Galveston Library sale.
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posted by admin on Jun 26
In 1895 a different kind of railroad car rolled into Texas, bringing the “good news” of the evangelical Gospel to transient railroad workers and far-flung communities alike. A ministry to railroad men and their families lay at the heart of chapel car work, which over a period of fifty years saw thirteen rail chapel cars minister to thousands of towns, mainly west of the Mississippi. Author Wilma Rugh Taylor’s portrayal of this ministry for the one car, Good Will, which served Texas, provides a view of life in towns such as Denison, Texline, Marshall, San Antonio, Laredo, Abilene, and Dalhart. The railroads that carried the Texas chapel car included the Texas & Pacific; the Missouri, Kansas & Topeka; the Southern Pacific; the International & Great Northern; and the Mexican International. Taylor writes about the travels of Good Will with fondness and an eye for detail. She describes the car itself (its living area was just nine by eighteen feet with a decorative rococo stencil on the ceiling), the missionary couples who traveled in it, and the services they held. She considers the philanthropists who supported the mobile chapel and the guilt and other motives that moved them. She looks at the issues the chapel car faced as it rolled into town: temperance, turbulent religious rivalries, racism and immigration, the role of Masons and other lodges in rural society, and even the devastating Great Storm of 1900 in Galveston. A novel window into Texas and railroad history, this book tells a warmly human story set on a larger stage of charitable works, evangelical fervor, and social change.
posted by admin on Jun 26
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posted by admin on Jun 26
Cal Lighting Galveston Traditional Table Lamp. With 3-Way Switch. Shade: Bell Shape Fabric Shade. Finish: Dark Bronze.
posted by admin on Jun 26
GARMIN MUS505L BLUE CHART GULF OF MEXICO Detailed coverage from Brownsville, TX to Plantation Key, FL including Corpus Christi, TX, Matagorda Bay, Galveston Bay, Port Arthur, TX, the Mississippi Delta, Chandeleur Islands, Tampa Bay and the Florida Keys west of Key Largo. Also includes Lake Ponchartrain and Lake Maurepas over to Vermilion Bay.
posted by admin on Jun 26
This video shows how to make a basic shark leader that will handle anything from 4 to 8 feet from http://www.tx-sharkfishing.com/. This shark leader is a stealth design and uses the mouse trap concept to automate the hook set, Christopher Deaver is the speaker with the TEXAS SHARK FISHING website. Deaver has fished for sharks extensively and is the author if the SHARK FISHING HANDBOOK. Come visit our site, TX-SHARKFISHING.COM, the largest shark fishing website in the world. We have videos, saltwater fishing articles, a message board, and a huge angler following. We also own FLORDA SHARK FISHING, GEORGIA SHARK FISHING, NORTH CAROLINA SHARK FISHING, and several other regional LAND BASED SHARK FISHING siteS. Please come and visit up.
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posted by admin on Jun 26
During the first week of September, 2008 Hurricane Ike tore through the islands of Turks & Caicos and Great Inagua as a category four, with sustained winds of 135mph, before making landfall on the north coast of Cuba as a strong category three, with 120mph winds.
Ike crossed the eastern and central provinces of the Cuban mainland and moved offshore, paralleling the south coast of the island, making another landfall over the western portion of Cuba and emerging into the Gulf of Mexico.
The hurricane continued across the Gulf and made a final landfall near Galveston, Texas as a borderline category two/three, with 110mph winds, during the early morning hours of September 13th.
The hurricane caused extensive wind and storm surge damage in the affected areas, virtually obliterating several coastal communities on the Bolivar peninsula of the upper Texas coast.
With monetary losses over $31 billion (USD), Ike is now ranked as the third costliest hurricane in United States history.
From the afternoon of September 7th through the evening of September 9th, storm chasers Michael Laca, Jim Leonard, Jose Garcia and Max Hagen intercepted numerous outer rainbands, from Hurricane Ike, in the middle and lower Florida Keys, as the storm passed well to the south.
At the time of Ike’s closest point of approach to the Keys, the hurricane was a category one with sustained winds of 80mph and a central pressure of 965mb (28.50in).
Although the center of Ike remained a significant distance (150 miles) to the south, the hurricane had a very large windfield and produced sustained tropical storm conditions (39-73mph), with gusts of near hurricane-force, across most of the Florida Keys, which resulted in some minor wind damage.
These strong winds produced a 2-3ft storm surge in exposed locations on the Atlantic side of the lower Keys. During high-tide, many low-lying areas experienced significant flooding.
Numerous tornadic thunderstorms were also embedded within the outer rain bands of Hurricane Ike and several confirmed reports of tornadoes and tornadic waterspouts have been received from locations throughout the Keys.
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posted by admin on Jun 26
Maritime Safety and Security Team Boston esses the Houston Ship Channel for obstructions and damage following Hurricane Ike. Coast Guard personnel and ets from around the country were deployed to the Houston-Galveston area to ist with search and rescue, aids to navigation repair and pollution essment.
(Coast Guard video by PA1 Alan Haraf)
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