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The waters of the Rio Grande are rising. I have only been in this area a short time, but I have definitely noticed this. This is serious. Aquifers long dry are being replenished from underneath and water tables are rising. Arroyos are flooding, which have not tasted a drop of water in many, many years. Tall trees almost dead for lack of moisture are again receiving water to their roots. Water-loving birds are appearing in desert areas long dry in eager anticipation of rain. Levels of greenery not seen for a century are returning to lands that went dry in the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s. This is climate change. Hundred-year floods are coming. It is not clear to me that this has to do with a global increase in temperature, but there is definitely a secular increase is precipitation within the Gulf drainage basin. I predict that this will greatly complicate and drive up the expense of Trump's proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Ok guys Ive been kind of scared to share this but it must be known. Over the holiday weekend my wife and I were traveling west on 380 going through Denton when out of no where we saw some sort of check point. Once we pulled up we were taken back because the checkpoint had one police suv but the rest were black SUV's , about 6 of them along the road. As we pulled uo the sheriff had us roll down our windows to speak to us, but I was more focused on the guys in back of him wearing all black. They had a foreign accent that seemed to be Eastern European and were staring at us like hawks, even the sheriff seemed to be nervous. We were eventually waved through, but what are these foreign troops doing in Texas of all places conducting check points over the holiday weekend?