Bville Survives Emily

Emily passed us by today with plenty of rain and wind gusts to remember her by. When my family and I took a step outside today, we found our front yard and street covered in debris such as tree limbs, braches, leaves and plenty of palm tree debris. The storm was not so much dangerous as we all prepared for it to be (though there were a fair share of scares like sightings of funnel clouds, a collapsed roof in Bville and uprooted trees...but for the most part Emily felt like a giant and misbehaved toddler who shaked and rattled every tree in Brownsville leaving us with a big mess to clean up. So we got to working, clearing up prickly braches from our ebony tree (ouch!) and dragging tree limbs that snapped off from their respective trees and taking off the wood from the windows of the house. We have yet to tackle our backyard where there was more damage to the trees. Well, I hope everyone else passed the hurricane okay. I hope some of the remains of Emily will reach the US Southwest region and give some relief to their horrendous heatwave! 123 degress in Arizona I saw today! That is insane! In Bville, the heat index here can reach 110 some days but for the most part, I would rather be here where I can escape to SPI than there. The weather seems to be going insane these days. Call it El Nino or Global warming, but this can't be normal.