Very Cloudy Very Humid

 First a lot of sunshine and zero wind and high humidity but that quickly changed to heavy clouds, cool breezes from the north and rumbles of thunder. Forecasts gave us a very slight chance of rain today but the forecasts have been inaccurate. I have no idea what to expect. A deluge would be no surprise. 

Weeds are running wild all over town, and when people go to mow their lawns the mowers bog down in the thick vegetation. I attacked the worst of my vegetation with a string trimmer, anticipating a bit of a struggle when the lawn can finally be mowed. I need to do more of that. Sweat like a hog. 

Terrible Flood!

 The timing of that deluge could not have been worse. July 4th weekend. I used to drive through Kerrville once or twice a year. Always on my way to someplace else, just passing through. It always had some eye appeal, and seemed like a good place to live. I never saw much of it, though. I whizzed on by at 75 mph, coping with heavy truck traffic. I did not celebrate last night. I stopped doing that many years ago. Even when I would go to the local displays of fire works and checked out the parade, I never felt that I was celebrating anything. Like, I should celebrate the products of greed and genocide and some rather pointless wars? Imperialism? A rotten and corrupt political system? Ignorance enshrined as a great virtue? Rapacious and destructive corporatism? Slavery? An ugly and debased form of Christianity, in which money is the only true god? That's nothing to celebrate. 

The human brain is so constituted that any nation people might form will turn out to be a murderous, corpse devouring monstrosity. 

Terrible Flooding

 I'm saddened by the flooding in the hill country. I know that area very well. It's very bad news. Here, our rain is over. Blue skies. Drying out. We need to dry out a bit. Too soggy for too long, but the rain we had was much needed, especially as we begin to move into the worst of summer's heat, and who knows when we'll have any significant rainfall again?

Even More Rain!

 More rain today than yesterday. Flooded areas here and there. Saturated ground. Only a few breaks in the cloud cover and brief intervals of sunshine before more clouds roll in and more rain is falling. The playa lakes are very, very, full. Temps are well below average as well. Sometime tomorrow the nearly constant rainfall should end but storms remain possible. 

This is starting to be a lot like 2010. I have not yet heard of cancelled events, and that surprises me. Street dance downtown tonight? Not likely. Will it move to the Fair Park Coliseum, as it did in 2010? Or do they even do that anymore? What about the big parade? McKenzie Park is probably on the verge of being somewhat flooded out, with one road closed into the park and high water everywhere else. It'll be very, very, soggy tomorrow night, with the possibility of yet more rain. I'm happy to be not attending any celebrations. I have no plans to do anything out of the ordinary. 

It Won't Stop Raining

 Steady light rain, hour after hour. Obviously it has to be very sodden outside. The rain paused long enough yesterday for me to do some work outside and I'm happy to have taken advantage of that opportunity.

This is getting kind of old, frankly. It would be good to get some sunshine. Eventually. Maybe one or two more days of this.