The Wreckage

Coming home to a destroyed landscape.

The live oak in our care

While I was away enjoying my best friend, the Pacific Ocean, great food and old friends, my hometown of Austin — along with much of the south — experienced a cataclysmic ice storm.

Dubbed “Treepocalypse” in memory of the Great Snowpocalypse of 2021, this recent storm failed to deliver nice pretty fluffy white snow. Instead it coated our world with a thick layer of ice, sending…