An Uneasy Relationship Between The Trees and the Rain (From the series: The Weirding of Austin)
Coming from the UK, I had little knowledge of what a flash flood was. It doesn’t take long to learn. In the Texas spring, local thunderstorms are common, bringing rain by the bucket-full in quantities previously unimaginable to a Brit. You can be ten miles away from a storm that puts 9 inches of rain on the ground and you might not even get wet.
Oh but it pays to know that there was a storm locally, because all of that rain doesn’t happily soak into the fields. It goes rushing down the ravines and waterways in a merciless fashion carrying cars into the midst of rivers which were just streams a few minutes ago. And so you can see an image like the one above, where the trees appear to defy reason, having somehow managed to take root in the middle of a river.
That’s no river. It’s barely a stream.
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