Texas Spring Weather

We just moved and already our area has been declared a disaster area.  How is that fair?  Of course this is at a time when hundreds of thousands lost power due to the storms across several areas.

Today it's raining but not like it was a few days ago.  Driving to work there are several areas that have downed fences and walls.  Some areas where people had lost control of their vehicle and left tire tracks in the dirt on the sides of roads.  Overall a real mess.  We were under a flood warning and so I stayed off of the roads until it cleared.  

That morning was trash day and we had such winds that trash was everywhere in the neighborhood.  One neighbor's tree was blown over.  We all have newly planted trees as of a few months ago and so blowing over really isn't a surprise.  Our tree doesn't have enough limbs on it to have caught the wind well enough to blow over.  And we were worried it wasn't filling in very fast...

A friend texted a meme about Texas weather trying to kill you and how people who move here are often surprised about this.  We do get heat, tornadoes, floods, and ice so I guess that isn't too far off.  All of these have had a toll.  But those few days when the weather is nice....

Fortunately the lakes like the rain and so that's a plus.  It also washed down our roads from all of the construction grit.  Sometimes there's a bright side but not always.