We had some impressive weather

We had some impressive weather in Austin yesterday - thunderstorms, tornados and some 14 inches of rain. Today is supposed to be more of the same.

Behind my office building runs a line of the Union Pacific Railroad. It's a bit elevated and blocks the water coming from our parking lots (where they recently paved over a big chunk of grass). The runoff from the lots washed away part of the rail embankment and I called the railroad to let them know about it (trying to suck up to the future father-in-law, I guess). At the pedestrian underpass the water was almost up tot he rails, too, so it must have been some 10 feet deep!

Jennifer called around 5 pm, hinting that I should go home to let Homer in, but I figured he'd be fine, since he doesn't have problems with storms and the doghouse we borrowed is nice and sturdy. Jennifer got home first and apparently he was fine, although ready to go in. I noticed a weird thing when I got home, though. Homer looks really bug eyed! I don't remember noticing anything yesterday morning, but last night he looked like he was part Chihuahua. He seems and acts like usual but looks totally weird. It's freaky and I hope it goes away.