It didn't look much like rain last evening but again thunder and rain. And the morning is clear, breezy, and cool. Feels good. We remain soaked. This is unusual. Humidity remains rather high. The air is fresh. Will this be the wettest July ever??
The thunder woke me up briefly. It seems to have been a fairly substantial amount of rain but humidity is lower than it was yesterday. I worked harder than I did yesterday morning and didn't even work up a sweat. It felt cool. Nice! I got lots done.
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.
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.
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?
