A few days back the great Alan Melson, KERA’s director of interactive, directed his Facebook friends to a great weather-geek (said with all due respect) site where folks are currently having a great debate about whether or not signs point to an icy deep freeze headed toward North Texas toward…
It’s all but official now. We’ve strung together the 12 driest months in Texas history. State climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon estimates we got 13.69 inches for the year. The average is 27. It’s been hell on ranchers, as we reported in this week’s cover story. And it may get worse. Texas…
Things all went wrong for Renee so recently she can still count the days: 32. That’s how long it’s been since she lost her job, her car was repossessed and her house was foreclosed on. “Everything just fell apart so quickly,” she says.She’s in her mid-40s with bright green eyes…
This morning, Charles Allen, who runs Trinity River Expeditions, pulled his white 15-passenger van into the parking of the Sylvan Avenue boat ramp, positioning the bulky vehicle so he could easily move the neat stack of green canoes towed in back a little closer to the water’s edge — a…
I know we had some fun earlier in the week with Dallas County’s stash of for-sale gas masks, which has climbed to $50 since last we checked. But I see the county’s also auctioning off quite a few donkeys, mules and horses — all of which, says Dallas County Sheriff’s…
By the end of the day, the sanitation workers who pick up after downtown and South Dallas will have started and stopped their truck around 500 times, pausing each time to heave gray plastic bins of stinking, dripping trash in the compactor. It’s 109 degrees outside, but to the “throwers,”…
My Exposition Park apartment has an urbanely picturesque view of David’s Garage, an auto repair shop whose gated parking lot has recently been packed with cars like the screen of a Tetris game. As I make my coffee, I’ll notice the garage doors roll open, and sometimes, when I go…
That’s the latest Oncor outage map above — and it appears quite a bit busier than yesterday’s at-this-time look-see. (Which might explain the fleet of tree-removal trucks that just passed in front of the house?) Still, ERCOT and Oncor insist no need for rolling blackouts this morning, despite the expectation…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have asked about reports of a rolling blackout, courtesy Oncor at the behest of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. Sure enough: Says ERCOT spokesperson Dottie Roark on her outgoing message, “We are doing rotating outages or rolling blackouts. We don’t know how long those…
First, many thanks to the Friends of Unfair Park — without your company, a long day would have felt much, much longer. So be here tomorrow and just stay home tonight: Dallas Police sent the after-2 p.m. traffic-accident tally, and numbers were higher than the morning’s count. From Senior Corporal…
For the last hour or so, a rumor’s been circulating via the Facebook and e-mail that the ginormo tent built inside the Cotton Bowl for the XLV Party — featuring DJ sets from Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor, Passion Pit and Samantha Ronson, among others — collapsed beneath the weight of…
