I have been out of the loop for a while, working and not working. Reading a lot and showing houses. This past weekend in Comal County TX was exciting. For the past 20 months or so, we have been in a record setting drought and record setting summer of heat. More day of triple digit heat than South Texas has ever experienced in recorded history. The heat broke a couple of weeks ago. The drought, while not broken, was severely dented this weekend. It was nice to have a day of Sturm and Dunder. The rain and darkness were a welcome change from the dead white heat of this past summer.

Unfortunately when the rain hits around here, it tends to come in big bunches. We had 6 -9 inches is a very short amount of time. Not a record by any means but a nice start.  I guess I should confess here that I am a weather freak. In college, I had a choice between geology and meteorology. I chose the one taught by the late Dr. John Freeman, director of the Gulf Coast Storm Research Center. Learned to identify clouds,, weather patterns, all sorts of stuff that has now been replaced by better knowledge from satilites and all kinds of radar. I also remember when Dan Rather was on Channel 11 in Houston showing us the crude radar from the old airport in Galveston, where he had holed up for Hurrican Carla. It was a fuzzy black and white picture but there really was an eye in the center of it. I believe it was the very first time a picture of a hurrican had ever been broadcast live. Yes, I am THAT old.

Hubby and I went out Sunday just to check on friends who live on the Guadalupe and Comal - Comal was a nasty looking ugly brown mess below where the Dry Comal joind it. The Tube Chute, the dam and the tuber bypass were all one ugly brown milk chocolate flow.  Up on Hinman island the water was calmer and an odd reddish hue. Over at what used to be the Low Water crossing at Gruene - the bridge was doing it's job and well above the flow. At least the green slimy moss from the long hot summer was washed away. Yay, Fall!