Sunset in Bastrop after the rain on Monday, May 26, 2015. Photo by JayJanner/American-Statesman. Though the Central Texas skies this Memorial Day weekend — beset with storms that led to destructive floods — hung heavy with foreboding darkness for the most part, some rather unusual color emerged between the rains. Austinites took notice on social media, likening the mammatus clouds filling the sky to some otherwordly, alien planet. See 21 breathtaking photos of Austin’s sky after the storms at statesman.com/instagram #statesmanphoto #atxweather #txweather #atxflood #atxfloods #centraltexasfloods #sunset