Another Damn Hurricane

 Another Damn Hurricane-

Just enough.......Enough....

But first, I want to than the people who called, sent tests, emails etc to check on us. We bailed and went to the Farm in NE Texas between Mt Vernon and Winnsboro.  Didn't even hardly rain. And the local news/weather out of Tyler expect the storm to impact the area, but everything was to our east. 

It made us feel good with all the people checking on out safety.  

We decided to go the Farm because my Mom turns 90 next month and well, she didn't need to go through another storm. And Grandma made homemade biscuits every morning. Mom is well educated with a Master's degree plus, but she loves to cook, and you want to make me happy, fix your oldest son biscuits, lil' smokie sausages, or pan sausage, and a couple of easy over eggs and he's happy, happy. ( Many of you know I love lil' smokies, it's why they often appeared at the BHS prom. )

How does Tyler have 3 TV stations, legit news stations and we have 2? Oh, we have news on 4, but in reality it is CBS doing the same news on Fox and ABC doing the same news on NBC. Heck, I even was in speech classes at Lamar with the lead news anchor on Tyler NBC, he's been the anchor there for years. And they had actual news and weather on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Our local news is just telling about local link and cookie sales. maybe a wreck, then the rest is just news they have taken from the national news feeds....

I know we live on the Gulf Coast, but we have seen more than enough of our share of storms in recent years. 

We even took this in consideration. If there was enough damage to the house, just make a settlement with the insurance company and start over.  Don't even try to rebuild. We decided we'd just rent a townhouse/condo and follow the kids wherever they move to....And if it's China, well, we have those "Family" Chinese Visas. We will move there. We all have had enough of hurricanes, 50 inches of rain tropical storms. There is something going on. There were storms in our past I remember, but not this strong and not this often and not as 'odd' as we've had recently. 2 tropical storms in 3 years? One dumping 54 inches of rain, the other 40 inches of rain?

But, we had minor damage. Everything is fixable. We only had one tree that broke/twisted in half in the dog yard and will worry about that later. It is out of the way. A couple of other things that need to be fixed. 

I don't know, at some point we will want to sell and move. I wonder if we'll have to finance the house ourselves? It is no longer "fun" here. I wonder if this last hurricane if Chevron will decide not to put the new proposed plant in Orange? 

That said, we need to remember the people in Orange/Little Cypress in our prayers. That area was hit hard....And especially remember in our prayers the people in Lake Charles. It is a mess over there. I was hearing 60 days before lights.   

That said, if Deb was just a little closer to retiring, we would be leaving. Enough is enough....