We kept an eye on the weather the whole time they were on the road and skies were clear the whole way. Yesterday, I knew they were going to be getting on to I-10 at some point and when I turned on the news at noon, I couldn't believe it when I saw there were big thunderstorms around Kerrville and they were tracking straight down I-10. I had been hoping they could get to San Antonio without any storms but, depending where they were on the road, it looked like they were probably in those storms. It wasn't until we got a text message from them at 1:20pm saying that they were in Kerrville. Wow, that was such good news because that meant they were BEHIND the storms.
They got to our apartment around 2:25pm - storms all over and done with. At around 2:18, I decided to go downstairs to see if I could see them anywhere and didn't so came back up. At 2:25 Guillermo and I BOTH decided to go downstairs again and as Guillermo was about to go down the stairs he stopped to see what he could see from up there and SAW THEM slowly making their way through the parking lot!!! We were so excited and happy we had decided to come down again at that time.
After happy hugs, we took them up to our apartment, showed them around and then we tackled the job of unloading some of their stuff from the trailer. Once we got all that taken care of, we then drove with them to our storage unit so that they could leave the rest of their stuff there. As we were driving to storage, I remembered that I had left the windows in the dining room of the apartment open and I was a little concerned because of the big clouds in the far distance but really, what were the chances?? And besides, we weren't going to be gone THAT long. It took a little while to put their stuff in storage, but we were so happy to see that it all fit! From there we drove to the Uhaul to return the trailer. That took longer than we would have liked but I think Uhaul is like the Social Security office, you just can't get in there and out quickly.
Anyway, by the time we left Uhaul, it was rush hour and couldn't make a left out of the parking lot with all the traffic so we had to take a right which made us go a round-about way back to the apartment. As we were driving up Bandera Rd. we saw that those way distant clouds were now looming right in front of us and they looked MEAN!!! Rolling black clouds and obvious heavy rain falling from them - not too far away. It wasn't long before the rains hit with a vengeance. And even hail!!! It was wild and I knew that there was no way we could make it back to our apartment in time to close those windows, especially with all the rush hour traffic. So, anyway, when we got to the apartment, sure enough, the rain had been streaming in the windows of the dining room and the floor was absolutely soaking wet there. Fortunately, we had moved the dining room table away from the windows, my laptop was on that table but at the farthest point from the windows and all of the paperwork that I had been keeping on some boxes by the windows were safe behind a wall. It took several towels to soak up all that water and fans going for at least an hour but it dried rather quickly and hopefully there won't be any lasting reminders of what had just happened. Lesson learned......
Today we just took it easy. We did go to storage again for some bolts and screws and on the way back, we stopped to pick up some lunch at our neighborhood taco truck.
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