The Heavens Opened

Hi Everyone,
Hope everyone is having a great day.  It is beautiful here this date 5-13-11 in Central Texas.  Cool day in the 70's and full sunshine.
We had rain, buckets of it on 5-11-11   Wednesday around 6:00 p.m.  and again on Thursday morning. Bad thing  we had winds blowing 65 mph and I thought my metal roof was going to come loose but it is ok with no problems. We got 4.7 inches and the ground is still soaked.  A  school in Belton, Tx  and in Moody, Tx had a roof collapse to so much rain .  The headline in the Temple Daily Telegram on 5-12-11, The Heavens Open;  Rain Falls!!!!!!!!  So thankful as we were so dry and worried about fire danger.
The wildfires in Texas now have burned a record 2.4 million acres.  We had a 400 acre fire Monday 5-9-11 in Milam county.  The Texas forest service reports we are still in red flag conditions mainly across West Texas.  The forest service is currently working 10 large fires that span 599,405 acres.  Hard to believe they are still working wildfires.

My brother Jerry and myself went to the Central Texas airshow on 5-7-11, Saturday, spent 5 hours there.  Very hot miserable day and a terrible wind blowing dirt all over us.  Both of us had to wash up all the dirt when we got to our homes.  His VA home was there and we sat with them.  They were allowed to bring in ice, food, and drinks which was nice.  I had Jerry transported in the Temple HOP handicapped bus because the VA home needed the wheelchair space on their bus which can only transport 2 wheelchairs.  Late in the air show, pyrotechnics stimulated a bombing run and set the air field grass on fire, burned 12 acres.  We could not believe it, but Jerry enjoyed all the fire trucks that were summoned to put it out.  Even where I live, Moffat area sent several fire trucks.  Moffat is a volunteer department.  No more air show after the fire started.  However, we had to wait for his ride to pick us back up because you have to schedule a return.  So we waited at the entrance gate in the shade for about 1 hour.  Jerry was very tired after all the excitement.  He really enjoyed the day out.  When he got back to the VA home, I helped him wash up and he could not believe how much dirt was in his hair, face, and arms.
Jerry was very happy he got to see a Stealth bomber fly in from Dyess Air Force base.  The bomber made about 4 passes around the airport before heading back to base.  This was the highlight of the show.  My camera batteries ran down just before it got to Temple and so I did not get a picture of it, maybe next year.
My back up batteries were new and no good.  First time I had new batteries that were bad.

Jerry Frye @ Central Texas airshow, Temple,Tx 5-7-11

Old car @ airshow, Temple, Texas

Then on Wednesday 5-11-11, I was at the HEB grocery store around noon when we heard 2 large planes flying low over the store, sounded like they were going to crash.  Everyone was ducking and  trying to get more in the store middle.  The planes made two passes over the store.  Later we found out on the news that the planes were 2 fighter jets that had been at the Temple, Texas airshow and they were going back to their bases.  The reason why they were flying low was to gain attitude which is hard to believe.  Sure scared a lot of people in Temple, Texas though.  People were running, ducking and trying to find a safe place.

Well, that all my news for now. 

Hope, pray everyone is safe and has a great weekend. 

In Christian Love,

Marie