Bubba
Jan 12, 2007, 10:37 AM
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Destructive Winds in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca
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I must say that I love high, sustained winds. My mama said it was because I was born on a dark and stormy night but whatever the reason, I thrive on winds that would bother most people.
That´s probably the reason I am quite fond of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, an area famous primarily because at that point, it´s only 200 kilometers between the Gulf of Mexico in Veracruz State and the Pacific Ocean on the Gulf of Tehuantepec and there have been numerous proposals to build a canal there to compete with the Panama Canal which is obsolete in many ways.
I was reading my Guadalajara MURAL this morning and noted in the ESTADOS Section that there has been severe damage to trucks and highway work caused by winds approaching 120 kilometers an hour along the Chiapas/Oaxaca highway in the vicinity of Juchitán, Oaxaca and these winds have been so fierce that they have not only blown many big rigs over but have actually collapsed a highway overpass under construction. Now, that´s wind.
I had been wondering why the isthmus around Juchitán was so windy and today´s newspaper had a topographical map that made it clear. The Sierra Madre Sur is interrupted at that point and replaced by a plain (which is the reason the area has been proposed as a canal) and the prevailing north winds off of the Gulf of Mexico blow ferociously toward the Pacific. Apparently, this problem is most prevalent between November and February.
OK, that´s it. This is my new winter home. Three months of strong winds in a tropical setting. Bubba´s paradise. I can see, however, how my amiga Jonna would not want to drive her RV through there in the winter. There is this picture in MURAL of all these overturned trucks. Pretty hairy for a large vehicle prone to catch winds.
(This post was edited by Bubba on Jan 12, 2007, 10:50 AM)
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