Hurricane Rita

Well, Hurricane Rita has come and gone. Luckily for the Texas coast and our area, she was no Katrina. I am a bit worried about my friend Gloria, up near Tyler. She has taught at Tyler Junior College for many years, and we keep in touch by e-mail. I think I will e-mail her and see what's up.

What a mess the coast evacuation was....not as easy as it sounds to tell millions of people to get up and leave on the spur of the moment. I think everyone decided to leave at the same time. Hopefully, people won't decide not to leave next time, as Rita fizzled out for this area at the last minute.

 My high school classmate, Ramon Hurst and his wife, Sarah, left Pasadena on Thursday. It took them 20 hours to get to College Station! They and the two cats made it on to Waco the next day just fine. There has to be a better way!

We were to have high winds in Waco, so I decided to stay home from work at Depaul..I was afraid might not be able to get back home if weather turned really bad, as was thought. However, there was just that one day of bad winds, then Sunday was beautiful.

The heat is awful, though. Should turn cooler near end of the week, two little fronts coming through, both with a small chance for rain, which we need so badly! I am having to feed the horses twice a day as there is no grass..it has all burned up from the heat. It was 101 degrees yesterday, and near that again today.

 My electricity went off today about 1:30 pm.....came on two hours later. I stayed inside a bit, til it got too hot, then sat in the shade outside with a bucket of water nearby to dip my feet in and splash on me. That kept me pretty cool. Other than that, it was nice to just be home and not do anything but lay around!

My two sons, Jimmy and Bobby, and their families were near the storm path.....Madisonville and Bryan area, but they fared okay. Think mostly they had just high winds. We all wanted some rain out of Rita!