Storm After Storm After Storm - Sunday, May 17, 2015

In one of my last A-to-Z Blogging Challenge posts I wrote about water. I'll tell you what, if writing about lack of water causes the kinds of storms we have been experiencing in Texas, then everyone should write about lack of water and maybe we would have an abundance. Just kidding.

In the past month or more we have had high humidity, and weather reports indicating 20-100% chances of thunderstorms just about every day. One morning last week, we had torrential rain with waterfalls coming off of awnings and roofs. Then this morning, starting around 4 am, we had a huge thunderstorm come over south San Antonio. Thunder rumbled and cracked, the storm was slow moving and stayed over us from 4 am until about 9 am. When we looked outside, here's what we saw...You have to understand that the ground was completely saturated from previous storms, so the water had nowhere to go. It will go down in about six hours, after the storm water drains empty enough for this to go somewhere.

Do, do, do, looking out my front door.

There is one site between us and the park model.

Yes, that's our picnic table.

And our vehicles.

We knew the cats weren't going anywhere!

But they were very curious.

Looking down the road of the RV park.

Our site and the site this side of us.

I put on my water shoes and Bob put on his flip flops. We walked over to look at the San Antonio River.

It wasn't as high as two years ago on Memorial Day weekend, but it had rapids and some of the small trees were in the water.

Mission Reach of the San Antonio River

Rapids on the San Antonio River

Sunflowers over 7' tall.

Thistle flower pummeled to the ground by rain

River Walk signage. See last line.

Pretty wildflowers.

Entrance to River Walk outside our RV park

That's what we woke up to this morning. My next blogs will be to catch up with everything we've been doing. I'm pretty far behind.

Suffice it to say, we're doing well and having fun. Travel Bug out.