No advertisements. No celebrations announced. Anyone else notice this?
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Maybe with all the existing civil wars and world debt, perhaps a reminder of the European past debt collection tactics in Mexico’s civil war was declared not politically advisable at this juncture in the geopolitical arena?
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Got a last minute call / invitation from my neighbor (an expat of Mexico) to have dinner on Cinco. To make conversation, I asked what specifically happened on the 5th that set Mexico free. She (mid fifties) didn’t know…testimony perhaps to the Mexican school system, or maybe she was not able to attend. Anyway, internet to the rescue, I learned it was a victory by General Zaragosa, against 10 to 1 odds at Puebla! Quite a feat worth celebrating. But do modern Mexico citizens know much about it?
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I don’t think anyone in San Antonio forgot about it…
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Houston was extremely quiet, compared to years past. San Antonio usually celebratory.
Having lived in Puebla, Pue. for a number of years, there was always a huge parade celebrating the fact that it was the indigenous people that came down from the hills who turned the tide during that battle!! 
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You all were in the middle of a flood. Downtown really didn’t get hit but I kept waking up to look at the weather map and north Houston was pounded. There are STILL parts of the weather map today (May 7th) showing those floods still in North Houston.
Meanwhile, here between Austin and San Antonio we were hoping to avoid the hail but get the rain and we got zip. It went all around us. To get our ponds full for the summer would have been such a blessing. As it is, high humidity and 90F means chiggers and stink bugs on my zucchini plants.
Sigh
Last year was no chiggers and zucchini’s that couldn’t tolerate the dry heat.
Texas.
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Glad you made it home okay.
Don’t you just love Texas?! I’ll never know how the Anglos withstood the nightmare of settling this land, or why. I live north of Houston and we didn’t get the flooding rains, but right at the Montgomery County line and north and east of it, they got hammered. No flooding rains here, but dams and rivers upstream overflowing.
Zucchini just doesn’t do well here; not just stink bugs but that dreaded white moth, chewing its way into the stems. Dead overnight.
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Mmm, no. Weather control.
Let’s hope they will grant you a non-deluge drink very soon (and not from one of the Cat-6’s they seem to be promising).
Our turn in the Ohio Valley region this morning (May 8).
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Yes, I watched a weather reporter on YT who showed the horrific storms going through Ohio. I grew up in Middletown and they were warning Oxford (Miami University is there- a historic town) so I was very concerned about that area. Tornadoes, hail, wind. Bad.
We were spared much like you; hardly a drop here. Weather Channel called for heavy rain with a flood watch posted.