Reading about this summer’s El Niño reminds me how little we knew about severe weather before smartphones and the internet. As a teenager growing up in Port Aransas, I spent weekends sailing my sunfish. For a weather report, I’d step out on the balcony to feel the wind and check the flags on the Coast Guard station. What those flags […]

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