{"id":24521,"date":"2017-09-06T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24521"},"modified":"2017-09-06T18:41:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:41:40","slug":"happy-trails-part-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24521","title":{"rendered":"Happy Trails, Part 38"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I think I’ve just made a command retirement decision.<\/p>\n

My wife, Toby the Puppy and I are not going anywhere near the Gulf or Atlantic coasts in August or September.<\/p>\n

Hurricane Harvey crashed ashore twice along the Texas coast as a Category 3 monster. First it hit Corpus Christi and Rockport. Then it backed up over the Gulf of\u00a0 Mexico, downgraded a bit to a tropical storm, then wiped out Houston and the Golden Triangle under 50-something inches of rainfall.<\/p>\n

OK, then. The Gulf Coast is out.<\/p>\n

Now the nation is awaiting Hurricane Irma, a Category 5<\/em> hurricane that is reportedly the most dangerous Atlantic storm ever formed!<\/p>\n

Miami and Miami Beach are in Irma’s bulls-eye. Sustained winds are at 185 mph. Residents are starting to flee.<\/p>\n

You know what that means? It means we aren’t going that<\/em> way, either in late summer … not ever!<\/em><\/p>\n

Climate change is making these monster storms a more frequent occurrence. Do not bitch at me about climate change! I won’t be dissuaded from what I believe, which is that Earth’s climate is changing. I won’t argue with you today about whether it’s manmade or whether it’s part of Earth’s “normal cycle.” The cause doesn’t matter in the context of this decision.<\/p>\n

Earth’s climate is changing and that means — for those of us in our household — our happy trails are going to lead us elsewhere<\/em> at this time of the year.<\/p>\n\n

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I think I’ve just made a command retirement decision. My wife, Toby the Puppy and I are not going anywhere near the Gulf or Atlantic coasts in August or September. Hurricane Harvey crashed ashore twice along the Texas coast as a Category 3 monster. First it hit Corpus Christi and Rockport. Then it backed up … Continue reading Happy Trails, Part 38<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1027,1936,2022,2023,7268,7294],"class_list":["post-24521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-climate-change","tag-golden-triangle","tag-gulf-coast","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-hurricane-harvey","tag-miami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24523,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24521\/revisions\/24523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}