St Vrain

The explanation for the mystery buildings might be about camouflaging cellphone equipment, but I still think there is a space alien component in there somewhere. It would have been a great adventure to be on the Texas Coast and experience a category 2 hurricane landfall. We could have pulled in all the slides and awnings, put the jacks down, put the dish down, and ridden it out. Of course if we had been there we would have left long before the hurricane was projected to arrive to protect ourselves and our coach. Now, the hurricane has left the building. It headed inland for Laredo and points west. A blustery afternoon here. A hot day in the 90s with a heavy afternoon thunderstorm dropping the temperature 20 degrees. We’re back at St Vrain for a week, working on a job in Santa Fe and another in Cortez. Our elevation is 5,000 feet. Highs in the 90s is a little hot. We’ve been watching the weather in Breckenridge at 9,000 feet. Highs in the 60s and low 70s looks a little cool. Halfway in-between should be just right. We should be somewhere at 7,000 feet. Maybe next summer we’ll set the temperature we want and move accordingly. Granddaughter Taylor starts driver’s ed. The Broncos started training camp today.

Hurricane Dolly

We kept the weather channel on in the background today. Called Gulf Waters. Fourteen foot waves. The hurricane made landfall just north of Brownsville. The south end of Padre Island. Slow moving. Lots of rain. As heavy as 5 inches per hour. Total rain of more than 1 foot in places. Exciting times.

Weather

Weather excitement. Not here in Colorado. In Texas. Here, it’s just high 90s every day. Hurricane Dolly is headed for the Gulf Coast. Evacuations of all the barrier islands. Flooding expected along the Rio Grande (well south of our place up by Corpus). 800 RVs on South Padre evacuated. 700 of them went out today, the rest expected out tomorrow.Time for barrier islands to do their job.

FW: Mystery buildings

We have an answer! Jim Beck used to live here, found someone to ask, and got an answer. Cellphone antennas and related equipment. The need to disguise has to do with the proximity to open space.Now we’ve seen Frankenpines in Colorado camouflaging cellphone towers, Frankenpalms in the desert doing the same, and Frankenbuildings concealing equipment.Who knew? (besides Jim)

From: Steve Taylor [mailto:spt@thetaylorcompany.net]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:42 PM
To: Bill Taylor (Bill Taylor); David Taylor (David Taylor); Tom Taylor (Tom Taylor)
Subject: Mystery buildings

We try to figure out why things are like they are. It keeps us occupied. Even if we’re not right, it feels better if we can figure out a logical explanation without asking.Small square buildings. Identical. They have windows and a tower. Out by Chatfield. Four of them. They’ve been there for years. They’re too small for houses. There are no signs of life around them. No vehicles. No yards. They appear to be on government property or open space. There is no-one to ask.If they are not for habitation, they must be buildings erected to cover up something. Gas wells. Old landfill gas vents. Space alien landing sites, or secret government projects perhaps. What do you think? Any help here?