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Texas weather is….nicely, outrageous! Just after a report incredibly hot summer (Waco, in which daughter Lara lives, had ninety days over a hundred – and that wasn’t even the document for the state!), you’d imagine possibly wintertime would serene down a little bit. Properly, this past month as we’ve been at Camp Tejas in Giddings, TX (about 60 miles east of Austin) we’ve had days in the forty′s, nights in the twenty′s and then days in the 80′s. It’s been a total roller coaster of a month. Sunshine and Rain. Layers of coats and shorts. Weighty frost and balmy mornings. But early this morning wins the award for the craziest (and maybe the scariest of them all). Once a night time of significant rain, the howling wind woke us up all-around 5AM. And when you reside in a tin can on wheels you Definitely Definitely Genuinely really feel the wind. And then there was the rain that felt like it was coming in diagonal sheets, battering against the sides of our tin can. We missing electricity all-around 6AM as the climatic conditions continued to rage around us. Fortuitously, all the trees around us held their floor, and all their branches. And even though the rest of the camp had lots of limbs and at the very least an individual massive tree (falling on the wires – hence the no energy)on the groundI do not feel that any of the structures ended up damaged or any of the individuals at camp hurt. Following seeing the information at noon (strength was back on by 11AM), we discovered that we had been the lucky kinds certainly. We received about 3 inches of rain overnight. 50 miles to the SW – virtually 9 inches! Tornadoes had been noted 30 miles south of us.