No Golf Today . . .

Photo by Katie Rolfsrud

Today on the Fourteenth tee, Stonebrooke
Five inches overnight, temperature now at 30 degrees.
Snowplow came through in a haphazard, when will this ever end,
 kind of sloppy sweep through the area.

As we watch the wall-to-wall Boston coverage where snipers are taking up their positions, we're snug in our snow-swept community, and we wonder if our Hai Dang made it out of town this morning for his two weeks of vacation in Vietnam. Our Dallas correspondent, Lorlee Bartos, just checked in with a report on West, Texas, site of the fertilizer plant explosion.
We're tired and depressed with this lousy weather. . . but we're certainly not bored.
Lorlee writes:
West is a town with a Czech heritage (though these Bohemians are from a 1910
migration through Galveston -- my Bartos forbears came thru New York in the 1860's, but Czech none the less). I have been to Westfest which is an annual Bohemian festival -- and have stopped, while passing thru on my way to other places, at the Czech Stop to pick up Kolaches.

It is less than 100 miles south of Dallas. Absolutely devastating.

As it unfolds, I think it will show up the total lack of oversight of dangerous places by the Texas government. Just last year we had another chemical plant blow up not far from there -- fortunately no one was killed in that one.