Texas Weather

Somewhere I heard the saying that climate is what you expect, and weather is what you get. I live in Texas and we certainly got weather this week. The climate of Texas reflects the state itself: Tornadoes, droughts, weeks where the daytime temperature never goes below 100 F, and gully washers – sudden downpours that fill the limestone aquifers below our property to overflowing and fill our gullies with roaring water. My favorite happened a couple of years ago when days of a biblical rain came to celebrate itself. Our house is on top of a hill, and thinks itself above much of this. But when we came out and went down our long and steep driveway, we met a new property covered with limestone rocks that have, over time, decided to leave for unknown reasons. It left remnants to remind us who really owns Texas. But we have never seen anything like what happened – and is still happening – this week. Temperatures were a tad above zero, rains fell and froze. Then came snow that covered the ice. In the more than 20 years I have lived in Texas, I have never seen this. Previously, I lived in […]