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And, here aptly describes Texas' weather in the summer! 
Devil's Ode to Texas
*Author unknown
The devil wanted a place on earth,
Sort of a summer home,
A place to spend his vacation
Whenever he wanted to roam.
So he picked out Texas,
A place both wretched and rough,
Where the climate was to his liking
And the cowboys hardened and tough.
He dried up the streams in the canyons
And ordered no rain to fall,
He dried up the lakes in the valleys,
Then baked and scorched it all.
Then over his barren country
He transplanted shrubs from hell.
The cactus, thistle and prickly pear,
The climate suited them well.
Now the home was much to his liking
But animal life, he had none.
So he created crawling creatures
That all mankind would shun.
First he made the rattlesnake
With it's forked poisonous tongue.
Taught it to strike and rattle
And how to swallow it's young.
Then he made scorpions and lizards
And the ugly old horned toad.
He placed spiders of every description
Under rocks by the side of the road.
Then he ordered the sun to shine hotter,
Hotter and hotter still.
Until even the cactus wilted
And the old horned lizard took ill.
Then he gazed on his earthly kingdom
As any creator would.
He chuckled a little up his sleeve
And admitted that it was good.
'Twas summer now and Satan lay
By a prickly pear to rest.
The sweat rolled off his swarthy brow,
So he took off his coat and vest.
"By Golly," he finally panted,
"I did my job too well,
I'm going back to where I came from,
Texas is hotter than Hell!"
Great topic and thread all, thanks for the great entertainment! 
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Yikes!
tornado.. get in the tub now!. What ever it was it slammed the house.. the house sounded like a old sailing ship on the high seas.. Just getting light.. over and done with in 2 minutes.. Got dressed to see what was going on.. neighbors trees leaning at 30 degrees.. I had leafs and branches down.. and one tree that some what came out of the ground.. several large roots.. no damage.
