My heart is broken. I am exhausted, emotionally more than physically, but above all spiritually. I have heard it said a disaster will bring out the best and the worst in people. I would agree. I don’t consider myself part of a political party. I vote for whoever I think is better for the job. …
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Answered Prayer
Immediately after learning the person i had prayed for ceaselessly was awake and conscious, it rained like i had never seen it rain here before. It was like everything that had been pent up was let go and the flood gates of nature were open. It rained for an entire day and night. it poured …
A Spring Hail Storm
I am usually at work when weather hits but this storm was driven by a front and built overnight until it exploded. I was in Center Point when the little red weather radio in the kitchen announced Fredericksburg was getting ping pong ball sized hail. It wasnt until i got to work the next day …
The Earth is Finally Watered
It finally rained. We had such a historic drought that many of our trees died and i only had to cut the grass once all year. What is dead doesn’t grow to need mowed. Well once everything was good and dead the heavens opened and dumped an immense amount of precipitation on our crusty parched …
The Last Day of 2020
The night before was a harrowing one. A winter storm was set to blow in and i was working the late shift at the store. I was supposed to get off at 9. The high wind gusts and sleet were supposed to begin at midnight. We were forecasted for one day of winter weather. Every …
4 Months from Paying the Car Off
We were all set to undergo a mandatory procedure that one of my colleagues described as “more painful than giving birth” with no pain killers. She’d had multiple children, two of them twins, and she said she’d rather do labor over than undergo 30 seconds of that procedure. Those who had it done suffered headaches, …