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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Melaque my home town
Nice little video from someone that lives here or used to ... not sure which. I am honored that they used some of my fotos.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Melaque Sunset from the Penthouse
Diane is down from New York for almost a month and she landed the penthouse of Hotel San Felipe over the holidays for a resonable price. She invited Ron, Dora and I over for drinks the other night. This is the view at about 7pm.
Video of a Melaque Sunset from the Penthouse
Monday, October 19, 2009
Hurricane Rick waves in Melaque
Vern sent me a link to the video he took yesterday - check it out
Hurricane Rick generated some unusual waves that made it necessary to keep the small boats of the local fishing fleet safe on shore. There are some pipe lines, waves battering the rock that a restaurant sits on and some brave soles attempting skim-boarding. The videos were taken about 10:00AM on 10/18/2009. Another event of the Mother Nature type: A magnitude 4.2 earthquake hit Melaque at 8:35 AM. The epicenter was in the center of the bay where I took the videos the same morning. There were two tremors, and our house shook, but no damage as far as I know.
Hurricane Rick generated some unusual waves that made it necessary to keep the small boats of the local fishing fleet safe on shore. There are some pipe lines, waves battering the rock that a restaurant sits on and some brave soles attempting skim-boarding. The videos were taken about 10:00AM on 10/18/2009. Another event of the Mother Nature type: A magnitude 4.2 earthquake hit Melaque at 8:35 AM. The epicenter was in the center of the bay where I took the videos the same morning. There were two tremors, and our house shook, but no damage as far as I know.
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Tropical Storm Henriette
Tropical Storm Henriette
Melaque, Jalisco - Mexico - 2007
Even with the new bridge over the highway there was just too much water for the man-made channel to handle. Years ago this whole area was a lagoon and the river that follows highway 80 down from the mountains (named Lazaro Cardenas according to Mari) used to run through Arroyo Seco, Aquacate and behind Jaluco. The engineering and money to control that much water a few times a year probably just won't happen. That could include a control dam up in the mountains that might also work well for crop irrigation
The bottom foto is of the opening of the lagoon which they are forced to do when the level rises enough to flood houses in the area. They use a back-hoe to dig a small channel and the water does the rest. The wave action is a river running into heavy surf. The bay is filthy and won't be safe to swim for a week.
Melaque, Jalisco - Mexico - 2007
Even with the new bridge over the highway there was just too much water for the man-made channel to handle. Years ago this whole area was a lagoon and the river that follows highway 80 down from the mountains (named Lazaro Cardenas according to Mari) used to run through Arroyo Seco, Aquacate and behind Jaluco. The engineering and money to control that much water a few times a year probably just won't happen. That could include a control dam up in the mountains that might also work well for crop irrigation
The bottom foto is of the opening of the lagoon which they are forced to do when the level rises enough to flood houses in the area. They use a back-hoe to dig a small channel and the water does the rest. The wave action is a river running into heavy surf. The bay is filthy and won't be safe to swim for a week.
The river crossing the highway directly into downtown
Downtown without getting wet. The center had over 3 feet
A mess of a beach but they always recover in a few months
They opened up the lagoon to the ocean for the second year in a row
Click here for More pictures of the damage done by Tropical Storm Henriette
Video of the opening of Laguna del Tule
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