Too Much Rain!
Texas and rain — way too much of a good thing this year. For the third straight time in 2004, our backyard is now riverfront property. The water’s receded a bit, which is heaven-sent news because I was seriously wondering what precautions to take if the water reached our back fenceline and the underground power transformer (big green humming box full of dangerous stuff that shouldn’t get dunked underwater).
When Justin and I visited Del Rio several weeks ago, we found the upper Rio Grande Valley verdant and rainy — they’d reached East Texas’s annual rain total by the time October rolled around, and it rained some portion of every day we were there.
Don’t believe in global warming and its ability to make changes on a massive scale in relatively short timelines? Move to Texas, where we have two seasons — drought and flood. I’m not kidding, and it’s gotten worse in the past 5 years of the 26+ that I have lived here.
I’d post photos of the temporary river, but now that I have a $4,000 camera I don’t take snapshots as much anymore… it just feels wrong, sort of like driving a Ferrari on the beach instead of on the Autobahn where it can be unleashed.
