I woke up early this morning around 4am with the moon shining bright as headlights on the interstate. I pulled the covers over my head and tried to catch some sleep...but thoughts of us kept keeping me awake. Ever since you found yourself in someone else's arms, I've been tryin' my best to get along ( Read more... )

I'm so scared! Ashley and I decided that the West sucked (how much fun can you have before 10:00 anyway) and since the curfew is still in effect, we would watch scary movies! White Noise and The new Exorcist are bad choices in a ghost town with hardly any electricty! Now she's back upstairs and I'm stuck with my popeyes about to freak out. ( ( Read more... )

Sigh. It is October 6th and I arrived back home yesterday from my interesting and not-so-fun evacuation from Hurricane Rita. To try and describe what the Golden Triangle looks like is not even possible at this point. And it looks MUCH better than it did 2 weeks ago! My apartment is okay....the unit in front of mine is a pile of bricks. My ( Read more... )

It's Friday - september 23 - and we're in Lufkin. A 2 hour trip took 4 1/2 hours and the only reason we got here this quickly was because we went north in the southbound lane. There were many trials during our trip...including dead dogs on the side of the road, 40 - (40!!! we counted) broken down cars due to heat exhaustion or lack of gas, and ( Read more... )

I just got through packing the most important things I have just in case my house isn't here when I get back. Do you know how scary that is? To know that everything in this one big box may be all the things I have left? It's not what is important - and I know that. But it's hard to think that everything I've worked for may be gone in a matter ( Read more... )

It's only an involuntary evacuation but you would have thought the world just ended in Beaumont. It's CROWDED everywhere and there's no gas left at any stations. I got off work early and we are closed until monday. There's no water, no batteries, no flashlights, no bread or peanut butter, nothing. I'm going in about an hour to pick up sandbags ( Read more... )

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