Down-ticket. To be honest, Texas can seem a long way from the this election sometimes. Yes, people are working very hard here, on b...

Wait for it... Tempted as I am to file another note on life in Houston and the aftermath of Ike, I thought you might all have had yo...

It's almost 11 o'clock in the morning here and I have electricity. For the last three days a neighbour's generator has run our f...

I've just got online at a friend's house. It's the day after the day after Ike and you all probably know much more about it th...

Thursday morning. Eleven days ago Ike was just a tropical depression, 3955 miles away. Since then it has wobbled and dithered, strengt...

I'm sorry, I know it looks like I've become obsessed with the weather but a new hurricane is threatening the Gulf coast and it give...

I’m not complaining. All I’m saying is that I now know more about hurricanes and tropical storms than I would ever have wished, and we ar...