Flood heartache

For those of you not familiar with our property in Wimberley, our community called River Mountain Ranch adjoins the now infamous Blanco River.  The Blanco was "disaster central" for the recent flooding and deaths caused mainly by rainfall many miles upstream of Wimberley.  Our community park is right on the Blanco, where we have spent many hours with friends and family wading, catching minnows, and skipping rocks.  And also just sitting back and admiring the majestic cypress trees along the banks, many of them hundreds of years old.  This bleak photo shows the Blanco five days after the flood from the remains of our community park.  All of the cypress trees are gone or stripped of their bark, soon to be completely dead.  And we as a community were the lucky ones.  It is called River Mountain Ranch precisely because it is a mountain mostly high above the Blanco, so none of our community homes were flooded. 

 

At our place lighting from the storm blew our main transformer, microwave, and water purification system, but everything else is fine.  The transformer has already been replaced; you can see the new one being lifted into place in the second photo.  And we are fine too, apart from our sorrow for those in Wimberley and around Texas who lost so much more.  

Our Blanco River will never be the same during our lifetimes.  It is hard to imagine ever being able to enjoy it without thinking back to the time just a short week ago, when it was so beautiful and without such tragedy attached to it.  Perhaps our grand kids will be able to stand on the riverbank with their grand kids one day, admiring medium-size cypress trees,  free from the knowledge of what has been lost.