Summary of my exciting week

Can you believe it is already May 16th?  Time sure flies by had no idea a week had already transpired and I had not made a post until a friend of mine called to make sure we were alright.  Like I explained to her I am not a daily blogger I wasn't pre-COVID 19 and I sure am not now that I have decided to continue with my self-isolation no matter what Greg Abbott the Governor of Texas says.

When you do not go anywhere it is hard to come up with content worthy of a post. We received much-needed rain on two occasions this week.  Monday night the weather guy said strong storms would only be affecting the Northern parts of Val Verde County...Del Rio and the Southern parts of the county would not be affected...WRONG! There was heavy rain, lightning, and the power went out for a few minutes but at least it topped off my rain catchment.

Last night we also had a rain event but this time we were forewarned since Wednesday. What caught my attention was the mention of the possibility of a one-inch size hail.  I covered dad's old car with cardboard to protect the front and back windshield as well as the front headlights and back tail lights.  It looked like a car from the barrio which is exactly what it is :D

The back windshield

Covered the front headlights...

The back tail lights...

 

The problem was that there was going to be a lot of wind and I did not want the cardboard to fly off so I threw some old bedspreads and pillows on top of the car and weighed it down with water containers.  Not exactly a pretty sight.

This is what it looked like this morning as they had been blown off the vehicle. The good news is that hail did not make its presence felt.

I considered putting a tarp on top of everything but I could not find my bungee cords or any kind of cords for that matter. As usual, the lights kept on going on and off but we only lost power for about five minutes.

The Mexican public address system came on while I was outside prepping the car saying a strong storm was on its way and to seek shelter and then their alarms went off. They timed it just right because as soon as the alarm finished the storm began.

You might ask...Belinda, why did you hear the alarms in Mexico and not the alarms in Del Rio?  That would be because my mother's house is on the southern tip of the county. We are closer to Mexico than we are to HEB.  If the alarms in Del Rio went off I did not hear them as I ran inside the house.

That, in a nutshell, is what consisted of my "exciting week"...now you know why I did not make a post!

This afternoon in the national news in Telemundo they were interviewing people on the American side of Tijuana, Mexico...San Diego, California...at a corner store and documenting all the beer people were buying to take back with them. The manager said they usually sell 50 cases a day but that since beer production ceased in Mexico they have been selling ten to twenty times more cases of this precious liquid!

We had a low of 68 a high of 92 with a heat index of 99 degrees.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.


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