Well, It's Definitely SPRING

Here's the flooded driveway.

You can always tell when spring has arrived - the NOAA weather radio gets busy with severe weather warnings.  We had a line of thunderstorms come through Saturday afternoon and was it exciting!

I like my thunderstorms, but this was ridiculous.  We got quarter-sized hail and torrents of rain.  Our front yard flooded.  Lake Williams reappeared.  A river ran across the driveway.  The trees stood on tiny islands.  The gutters overflowed, not able to handle the flood of water coming from the roof.

White bolts of lightning split the sky and the rain came down in sheets. The hail pounded my backyard stick pile and tore it to shreds!  Little stick pieces flew all over the patio.  We lost power for several seconds, so I had to reset some clocks.

Water's flowing into the
crawlspace vents - oh joy.

The water that overflowed from the gutters ended up along the front of the house and found the crawlspace vents, so that's all wet, too. 

As I sit here writing this evening, it's started up yet AGAIN.  The lightning looks like a strobe light on the houses across the street.  The rain is rattling against the siding.  Just now, a big bolt of lightning and a CRACK of thunder, and the lights across the street have gone out.  It sure looks empty over there.  We got a flash of no power, but I'm not resetting anything.  Well, the cable is restarting itself - "Welcome.  Bienvenido.  Bienvenue." 

Good times!