Well we've been here less than12 hours and now we're about to hit the road again. The officials have called for a mandatory evacuation for Calcasieu parish. We are going to some relatives house in North Louisiana. It looks like the storm has turned more to the East. It's a minute by minute decision. But with the direction of the storm Westlake will likely get a beating.
I'll post more later. Please keep in touch. I can check my regular email until the storm or my yahoo is sew4me1973@yahoo.com
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Here comes Rita and here go the Wallings
We debated and contemplated and thought and tried to decide whether or not to evacuate. We don't live in a mandatory evacuation zone but where Rita is projected to hit, Kingwood would get a majority of the eastern wall. My neighborhood shouldn't get a lot of severe damage but the thought of no air conditioner for 5 days or longer isn't exactly appealing. So after a lot of thought we headed to Westlake, LA to be with family. Not exactly north but unless the storm makes a severe shift we should be safe here. If there would be a shift we would want to be here with our family to make sure everyone got out safely anyway.
The trip over went much smoother than we expected. There were a lot of people on the road but the traffic was really moving. I had been watching the news in Houston all day and the helicopter kept showing the North bound interstates. They were bumper to bumper and going no where fast. I heard someone say a trip from Houston to Dallas which normally takes about 5 hours was taking 18 hours. But it is such a good thing that so many people are actually listening and evacuating. There weren't a lot of die hards on the news saying "we're just going to ride it out"
When we got to Lake Charles there was a huge sign on the interstate that was directing evacuees north. The sign said NO lodging in Lafayette or Baton Rouge.
So here we are with our precious belongings, All 4 of them.(and the scrapbooks)
The trip over went much smoother than we expected. There were a lot of people on the road but the traffic was really moving. I had been watching the news in Houston all day and the helicopter kept showing the North bound interstates. They were bumper to bumper and going no where fast. I heard someone say a trip from Houston to Dallas which normally takes about 5 hours was taking 18 hours. But it is such a good thing that so many people are actually listening and evacuating. There weren't a lot of die hards on the news saying "we're just going to ride it out"
When we got to Lake Charles there was a huge sign on the interstate that was directing evacuees north. The sign said NO lodging in Lafayette or Baton Rouge.
So here we are with our precious belongings, All 4 of them.(and the scrapbooks)
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Pig Tails
It's a proud day when a Mom can get her baby's hair into 2 individual pig tails. Well maybe I shouldn't be so proud but she sure looked cute with her "antennaes up." I have a feeling if her hair had not been cut so short in June we would be looking at shoulder length pig tails. I had thought Kaylee's hair grew fast but Mia has her beat.
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