Friday morning at Rita-not-so-central

We’re hundreds of miles from the storm. We are 110 miles from Houston. There are people camping in the Kroger parking lot, clearly exhausted from driving up from the coast. I don’t know if they intend to go back on the road, or if they are thinking they are “far enough” (whatever that is) and […]

Taking stock

More Rita-blogging! Let’s see if we’re ready for the storm which may or may not come this far inland and may or may not hit us with tropical and/or hurricane force winds and may or may not rain buckets. (opens garage) Out here we have: 5 cases of water 4 loads of dirty laundry 1 […]

Out of Gas

What a pisser! The gas stations in town are all out of gas. I saw two cars within a half mile of each other that looked like they had run out of gas. When will we get more? No one knows. Emergency planning? WTF is that? It means that when you tell the fourth largest […]