Monday, May 5, 2025

Spring showers

Rain in the Texas hill country is either feast or famine. We're pretty much always in need of some rain to fill our dwindling aquifer and local lakes. But this time of year it often arrives in the form of thunderstorms with hail and high winds. We're not technically in tornado alley, but we still get the occasional spring twister when the hot and cold air mix.

A recent afternoon for the dogs sunning on the back porch turned into a thunderstorm watch that drove them inside and soaked the area. Thankfully the hail falling in our neck of the woods didn't exceed pea size. However, some less fortunate folks in other parts of Texas had to deal with damage caused by baseball sized hailstones falling from the sky. Which sounds horrific, honestly.


Our lake house property is definitely prone to more frequent severe thunderstorms, and just rain, in general. It seems a recent local downpour floated a chunk of the mulch out of the landscaping bed nearest our front porch. Alas, I'm afraid that means we'll need to be making a mulch to river rock upgrade as soon as I can get it scheduled with our yard company.


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