Sympathy Extended to Texas Flood Victims

How sad for the folks in Texas who lost lives and property from the flooding last weekend.

Kingfisher County Extension Director Bryan Kennedy said he checked on a friend in the Mason, Texas, area, who measured nine inches of rain at his place, and while he was safe, a neighbor nine miles further west received 18 inches of rain.

The flooding there had taken 80 lives as of Monday morning calculations and the toll is sure to go much higher. The flood deaths went over 100 Tuesday and more searches were under way.

The flooding, now being called a 500-year flood, taking a number of historic homes, could hardly have occurred at a worse time with many taking advantage of the Fourth of July holiday for camping and other outdoor activities along the Guadalupe River.

Wikipedia reports:

The Guadalupe River runs from Kerr County, Texas, to San Antonio Bay on the Gulf Coast.

It is a popular destination for rafting, fly fishing, and canoeing. Larger cities along it include Kerrville, New Braunfels, Seguin, Gonzales, Cuero, and Victoria.”

Another Mason, Texas,  friend of a local resident says he hasn’t been able to get home yet to check on livestock.

The damage is sure to go into the billions of dollars. There an be no estimate on the agony of the loss of lives.

Bulletless Left  blames Trump, as usual

As usual the Left immediately tried to blame President Trump for the disaster.

That’s all they’ve got.

The Left is out of bullets. They’ve been proven wrong on their previous  “major” strategies:  abortion, guys in girls’ sports and electric cars.

Their big attack on the Big Beautiful Bill fell short and fewer and fewer people are believing their outlandish spiels that appear in the misnamed “major media.” House Minority  Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ record-breaking meaningless blab turned into nothing. Nobody truth checked his speech and wouldn’t have mentioned the tall tales  anyway – “the largest cut to Medicaid and food assistance in American history to fund tax breaks for their billionaire donors. The latest GOP stunt will rip healthcare away from 17 MILLION Americans, jack up our utility bills and take food out of the mouths of children, seniors and veterans.”

Texas flooding reduces our rain issues

The Texas flooding reduces our rain problems almost into insignificance in comparison. Of course, harvesting the crop, the production of a year’s work is vitally important.

Thankfully, our harvest has been able to progress despite delays in getting the wheat “in” due to inopportune rains.

Speaking of which, Kennedy says an area in northwest Kingfisher County received 1.5 inches of rain just last weekend.

Most of the county is down to wrapping up harvesting the mud holes combines couldn’t get to earlier.

Elevators remained open over the Fourth holiday to help producers complete the harvest.

Chris Townsley at the CHS Elevator in Kingfisher said the weekend was busy but it appears the harvest is definitely on the downhill run now.

Barb’s school lunch column brings memories

Barb Walter’s column in the Wednesday edition on memories of school lunch rooms, triggered a memory for me of my oldest brother, Ken.

We didn’t have school lunch rooms when we were kids; we all – farm kids, mostly – brought a “sack lunch” from home. Preparing them was another early morning chore for our already over-worked mother, who never complained.

My memory of Ken was him saying he never could figure out why other kids in the gym where we ate were always trying to trade him out of the sandwiches Mother made for their tastier ones made with yummy store-bought bologna. Ken was kidding when he remembered it.

Just thinking of Mother’s sandwiches, often featuring fried beef round steak or pork chops, makes me hungry today.

We weren’t rich but we ate good and we were happy.0