For the last several weeks, a good part of Texas has been plagued by violent storms and drenching rains. Consequently, the Brazos River crested in our part of the state (about 10 or 15 miles from the Gulf) a couple of days ago, so I took the opportunity to get some shots from a decent vantage point at a local park along the river.
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The river is well outside its usual banks, but poses no flooding threat to the community:
Normally, the river is as lazy and placid as an inland lake on a windless day, but it exhibited a noticeable current the day I shot these pictures:
This camper truck must think its a boat:
Time for a compound and wax job:
Fortunately, the sunshine has returned to our neck of the woods, so I was able to celebrate that return by driving this guy over to the park (and getting there was half the fun):
Originally posted by daacon 
), but we seem to have escaped largely unscathed. We do have some hail damage to the roof, apparently, so an insurance examiner will be taking a look at it in due course.
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