Hurricane Dolly Update

As you have probably seen on the news Dolly ended up being a little stronger than we had planned down here. She made land fall yesterday around noon near Brownsville as a Category 2 (100 MPH winds). She did quite a bit of damage down there with the strong winds and 15 inches of rain.

As for us, 6+ hours North of where she hit we did get some rain too. Yes! Not too much either. So, we are looking forward to greener pastures. What a blessing for us as our pastures were looking pretty bad.

It was interesting watching the clouds and how they move in relation to a hurricane. The last couple have hit at night so we weren't able to watch them. Yesterday Ryan and I went up to "The Ranch" as we call it, which is a big ranch our close friend, Eloy, works for so Ryan could shoe a couple of his stud horses. Anyhow, we were able to watch the clouds move in their circular motion as they dumped the rain on us, rotate to just cloud cover , and then an hour or so later more rain. It was pretty cool watching them move just like you see on the news casts.

Watching what a category 2 can do really made me realize how strong these hurricanes are and how much damage they can do. We are only about 45 min. from the Gulf Coast so we could really get hit hard if a hurricane were to come our direction. It was a reality check for me as to what we would need to do to protect our house and barns as best we could if one were to come our way. What is scary is sometimes the only thing you can do is make sure you have enough insurance.

I was going to take pictures to share with y'all but it just looks like a dark, rainy day so I didn't think it was worth taking pictures.

Well, time for me to sign off. My cats are looking outside right now as if to say "You promised you'd take us out today!!!" They love being outside, but can only go out when supervised because Cubby Bear (the big, long haired cat) jumps the fence and sneaks off. We live on a busy road so that makes me nervous that he might wonder in the wrong direction.