They dodged a bullet!

Amazingly, Valerie's parents got NO RAIN at all in Eagle Lake. After being right in the bullseye of the storm before it turned, they went to missing it alltogether. I don't think anyone would have predicted that a few days ago. I think that they at least expected to get some of the strong feeder bands.

They spent yesterday watering the lawn while they took down the boards on the windows.

Now, hopefully the citizens of the Houston area will realize that they can't all return at the same time or there will be similar gridlock and gas shortages. For some reason Americans always think that orders are for someone else. When the governor, the mayor and everyone else say, "Don't come home," people think, "Surely they don't mean ME."; "If he understood MY situation, he would let ME come home!"; "I have to go to work", etc . .

My prediction is gridlock and gas shortages.