Floods and Tornadoes

Saturday night we were at Scott-n-Julie's playing cards when a tornado was identified on radar near our neighborhood. They've started issuing tornado warnings when this happens, but it's caused SO many false alarms that no one cares anymore. Whoever decided this seriously needs to reconsider. We need to discern between radar identified wind shifting and tornadoes seen with human eyes, if so many computer tornadoes are never going to materialize.

Monday we were at the mall when another one of these computer tornadoes was in the area. No one was all that concerned. We all sat in the hallways while the stores shut their doors. Then when the warning expired, the stores opened back up.

Meh.

Let me know when an actual tornado shows up.

The flooding has been crazy here. Slaughter Creek is our nearest water body. It was quite overfilled and rushing along, when it's normally a trickle, but it won't get near our home with the topography.

Wimberley has had it the worst. Mom lived there for 6 years. The rehabilitation center where she lived (she had survived a stroke from an AVM) was used as a shelter during the flooding and storms there, so they must be on a bit of a hill. That was a relief. I was worried about those good folks. I hope the employees' families and homes are ok.

It was so ironic that I've been looking for a rental house ON A RIVER in Wimberley and surrounding hill country for about three weeks now, so we could take a nice 3-day weekend away with a water view. Freaky.

We've had 10 inches of rain this week in Austin. They say it will take a month of no rainfall for the ground to dry out. It's still raining.

The only good thing about all this rain is that the lakes are filling up. Lake Travis has been at 40% full for so long and it's really been a depressing view, reminding us all how long the drought has been going on. Lake Travis is up significantly now.

Everyone stay safe and keep watching for flooding!