June 14, 2016. Harper, Texas. Flooding.

For the past three weeks, East Texas has been deluged with rain.  Every other day it rained.  As far east as Austin and San Antonio there was torrential rain.  The Hill Country had rain and hail but nothing as bad as further east.  Houston was perhaps the worst.  Ken and I had been watching the weather.  We decided if the rains still were coming down, we would drive south on 55, then take Interstate 10 all the way to San Antonio to avoid back roads and low spots.  But the rains stopped so we drove across Texas on the minor highways, which we prefer.  The Interstate Highway System is wonderful but we prefer the roads less travelled, if time is on our side.

All the way here from Mississippi to Texas we watched for flooding and found none.  Every river was full and covering trees on their sides and we saw fields still covered with water.  Turning onto 385 from Harper,  large trees were beside the road, upended with branches broken off.  Obviously there was high water on that road, high enough and swift enough to move trees.   When Joyce and Robbie were driving home to the ranch from San Antonio two weeks ago,  the water was so high they turned around and stayed overnight in Fredericksburg.  They were wise.

The rains at the ranch caused no damage but the grasses are green and the ranch is lush.