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| And this isn't just any bull. It's A real live Texas Longhorn that is a five minute drive from the heart of downtown Dallas. He's cat napping in the warm sun that has heated the surrounding air to 68 degrees F. If you look, he's got his eyes closed and I sure would not want to be the one to disturb his cat nap. Know what I mean? |
It's a funny thing about gas prices. They are headed to prices we have not seen for a while. It's been obvious that the move upward is now in on the march. This past week the prices have gone from $1.90 to $2.22 per gallon almost over night. The best price in the metroplex generally is always at Fuel City. And the best car wash ever is there as well. And, if you are hungry.....oh my! The food is awesome.
Today, every gas station I passed was a few cents higher---and higher---and higher. I reached a point of no return. Continue on and hope for the best---or bite the bullet and pay the highest price. My gas tank is 14 gallons with a 2 gallon reserve and seldom do I ever wait to see the light come on. So if you do the calculations, a two or three cent price per gallon is not even worth the bother. Say you figure three cents per gallon, and at a quarter of a tank, that's ten gallons at three cents--or a whopping $0.30 should you bite the bullet of the higher price. You see where I'm going with this. Even being a penny-pincher, thirty cents isn't going to break the bank. But, the weighted factor today was the car wash. I really needed a car wash and Fuel City allows you to purchase your car wash right at the pump when you are paying for your gas. You can't beat the price or the convenience. While there, and before going down on the river to see the Trinity's flooding from the overnight storms, I visited the bulls and the donkeys there on the grounds.
As I was in line for the car wash (and the lines move F-A-S-T at Fuel City, The herd was at optimum viewing distance. Normally, they are down range a bit and it's not worth it, but it's like the posting in the National Parks that advise that the buffalo herds are within sight or not. In this case, if the bulls are within sight, that's good.
The storms last night generated officially four confirmed tornadoes that were of EF-0 to EF-1s in strength. One blew out windows in a high rise office building that sits on LBJ Expressway just south of Carrollton near Midway. The weather service is still investigating more damage in Collin County (which is Frisco and Plano).
It's early for Spring Tornadoes it seems, but in Texas---it's never to early. This little mixing bowl that we live in here blends warm fronts, cold fronts, moisture, dryness into a weather shake that can be totally unreal. It was one year ago this past Christmas that the Rockwall
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| Trinity overflowing and filling up with more runoff. Looking South from the Sylvan Avenue Bridge toward Las Colinas and Irving. |
tornadoes took lives and left people still trying to re-build their homes and their lives. As it is, we get two tornado seasons as it is. One comes in the spring and the other comes in the fall, thanks to our mixing bowl effect.
