Amistad means friendship and the dam was built by the U.S. and Mexico and completed in 1968. It was built to help with drought and flood control. There were some devasting floods in the area over the years and drought is always an issue. The top of the dam is a roadway that is also a port of entry. The statues are along the roadway -- at the border between the two countries about in the middle of the dam. You can drive to the statues without going into Mexico and through customs although you have to go through a border checkpoint on the way back. The picture of the water is the Rio Grande below the dam. It is too wide and deep to walk across at least not now.
The weather got cold here with temps falling in the 20's for a few nights. It was a very big deal down here. They had to open emergency shelters for the homeless and people who don't have heat in their "homes". The temps would rise into the 40's during the day but they just can't take the cold here at all. There was a break in a water pipe at the campground which caused a small lake of ice chucks. The local newspaper showed a large puddle of frozen water along the road in front of a business. Unbelievable that pictures of ice along the road would make the paper!
We won't be fishing until the temps stay up in the high 50's and 60's for a week or so because the lake water temp has dropped into the mid 50's making the fish go pretty deep and lethargic. Although we have seen some diehard Texans going out fishing during this cold snap. It would be like a Minnesotan fishing in late October, early November out in a boat.
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