After the record-setting 104-degree day on Easter Sunday, I was surprised by the 360-degree change our temperature took on Tuesday. During the evening I leave the small bathroom window open as no adult not even Twiggy could sneak in through it, it got so cold I had to get up to close it.
The news at noon announced a very strong thunderstorm entering Val Verde County from the northwest which is mostly ranch land and not very populated. The weather guy said it did not look like it would drop far enough south to make it to Del Rio.
As I have mentioned many times we live on the southern tip of Val Verde County. We are closer to Ciudad Acuña, México than to HEB or Walmart. I was therefore very surprised when around 1:12 p.m. we got hit with a severe thunderstorm accompanied by strong wind gusts. Why do I bother to listen to the weather forecasters?
The 4:00 p.m. news showed we were at 67 degrees and it felt wonderful! I do not know exactly how much rain fell as different parts of the county received varying amounts and I fell asleep before the ten o'clock news for the official total.
Only my steel tubs got rainwater the reason you see former Clorox bottles floating is that I had them holding down the tubs to keep them from blowing away due to the winds before the rains came. It would not have been a good rain catchment anyway since the roof was covered with dust from the winds and the water was chocolate colored.
Since we are in a drought I have been filling my rain catchment containers with city water in case the Russians hack our utilities. Though I am more afraid of them turning off our grid I am not about to go buy a generator or have gasoline around to power it. I will have to pretend I am in Terlingua and set up my tent and my shade structure to mitigate the heat should that happen.
Even the cats were taken by surprise. This cutie pie is Grayson.
This is Muñeca my beautiful little girl and my favorite...shhhh do not tell the other cats 😉
Today it was hot, humid, and muggy. I swept up the storm debris and being trash day I decided to also give the garbage can a good wash with Fabuloso.
Good night. May you all have Terlingua Dreams.
Aunty Acid
