Hey peeps,
Been a wild 18 hours in Central Texas with this weather, y'all. Honestly I had no idea it was coming. I went to sleep last night thinking about work and woke up to booming rain. Just thought it was a nice break from having not a lot of it since July. Then my phone buzzed with the first of several alerts that would come today. Flash floods in your area. For Austin, that's not anything uncommon with heavy rains. Time to bring the kids to school, hit the coffee shop, read some email then head in early to knock it out for the weekend. Bad timing on the roof repair for my neighbors, I though as we drove out.
But the roads were pretty nasty and the traffic sucked. Blinking traffic lights suck for sure when folks don't know a four-way stop from a free-for-all. We lost KTU from the radio a couple times. Then big lightning put out the neighborhood for a minute. "Wow," my son said calmly. "That was a big one." Scared the shit out of me!
And so it went till the final drop off. Today was definitely not good.
I was still clueless.
Over the floating fire ant mat to the details.