Listen to a solo from Stone Alliance's "Marcio Montarroyos". Don formed Stone Alliance in the sixties with Steve Grossman on sax and Gene Perla on bass.
And a video of Don with Miles, Marcus Miller, Dave Sanborn, Kenny Garret and Joe McCreary playing Miller's Tutu.
Tropical storm Don's tour de force was to split into two sections right before hitting land, a process called forming a mesoscale vortex. He was forecast to hit more towards Corpus Christi but the offshoot mesoscale vortex made a beeline for Brownsville.
Of course the neat part is that my name is Catherine Brown, Catherine Emily Brown. To add to the symmetry, last year's tropical storm Hermine also targeted and hit Brownsville. Yes I know it's pronounced Her-mean, but as a hopeless romantic I prefer to say it the way it's spelled.
And as to tropical storm Don's failure to relieve the drought, I found it interesting the cotton farmers didn't want any rain; they said it would make cotton buds drop and get dirty... some people are happy!
Now there's invest 91-L, a wave in the Atlantic which is headed straight for us in the islands. She will be called Emily. Although the wind hits hard at the top of the hill where I live, dubbed Beverly Hill, the house is a concrete bunker with wrap around panoramic hurricane proof windows. Stay tuned...
Little next day note: Today July 31st, I just noticed tropical storm Eugene is swirling in the east Pacific. Eugene was Don's dad... then on August 10th, tropical storm Franklin, Don's grandson's name, wandered over the Atlantic.
