The phrase “the largest, unobstructed, free-flowing river in the lower 48 states” is known by many people that love and promote the Pascagoula River. Largest, refers to the volume of discharge at the river’s mouth, that drains 9,600 square miles or one fifth the area of Mississippi, and small parts of Alabama. Three large tributaries and countless small streams contribute water to the Pascagoula that flows 82 miles from its headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico.  But that phrase we know so well today did not come out of nowhere or spread without a spark that started fifty years ago. 

Andrew Wilson’s love of weather has taken him from a Mississippi State classroom to a TV station and now into a hurricane.

Seeds can fly – I kid you not! I have witnessed this force of nature on many occasions and admire the strategy of the plants that launch their precious projectiles toward a future life. OK, OK, I may have stretched the definition of fly a bit, so let’s just say sail instead. A variety of plants have evolved fruit that upon drying, explode open to expel their cargo into the air – flying, if you will.

Russet, bright orange, deep red, gold, brown, dark purple, and varying shades of green … those are the colors of Autumn, and…