[Vhfcn-l] The hurricane

[Bill Wells]

Well for us here in Red Rock the hurricane has passed and the fixing up has begun.  My house received over 20 inches of rain, my 10 inch rain gauge over flowed twice.  My wife and I had a discussion about the horizontal rain, when the wind got up to 50 mph.  With the rain soaked ground giving way to the blown trees we had a few 50 foot cedar and some oaks fall over.  We couldn’t go anywhere for 3 days because of the flood waters in the creeks.  When the sun came out I released my donkeys from their shelter and as they walked around eating grass they sunk into quicksand like mud under the grass.  I helped them out and placed the donkeys back in the shelter.  

There was a cedar falling and was about to break the electric line to our home so I carefully positioned my tractor and was having problem because of the wind.  Finally getting a chain on the tree, I notice the tractor was slowly sinking into the wet ground.  With luck, we pulled the tree down away from the electric line leaving two very deed tracked in the ground, a good reason to have a 4-wheel drive tractor.

My son, Kenny has had his university closed until the 11 of September. The folks just to the southeast of us in LaGrange lost many houses in the flood waters.  Now the town will look completely different when rebuilt.   

As Texans, we will work to get things put back in order no matter how long it takes.

Around Red Rock, we are at the present going thru a fuel shortage which most service stations are running out of fuel.   For you old enough, remember the fuel shortages of the 1970’s. I don’t think it will be anything like that.

Take care,
Bill Wells