Swamped, but the Sun is Shining

5/03/07 - 4th Day - After Breakfast. Texas is swamped, but we're not complaining... and all the telephone lines are not down... because we don't have telephone lines (with apologies to Stevie Ray). There is an old saying that when it rains in other places, people get wet - but when it rains in Texas, people die. This is a true saying, and last night was no exception. Several people died as this storm blew through Texas yesterday. In addition to the heavy rains, there were winds measured over 80 mph (one weather blog said 100 mph) in different places around the state.

Things are not too bad here. Part of one wall of my outhouse caved in a bit, and I received a call from Logan after he returned home from the root cellar yesterday to bring him the trash pump because his land was nigh on flooded. The actions he had taken earlier in the day to protect the house had helped a lot, but his cistern hole was flooded and was overflowing around the house.

I had a few minor leaks in the entryway to the root cellar, but it wasn't much of a problem, and I had intended to rework the door and entryway anyway. The root cellar worked great, as we had 16 folks down there as the storm blew through. The two worst "cells" with hail and possible tornadoes had split right before they got here and one went south and one went north of us. We thank God that we were not flooded or hailed out. It is pretty muddy though, and we were supposed to take the hogs in to the processor today, but likely won't be able to do that because of the mud.

Hope all is well with you all, and I'll try to post some pics today or tomorrow.

Michael Bunker