[Ravensfort] Checkin....

[L T]

Glad to hear that you and your kin are well despite the damage.

Thanks for the report on the rest of East Texas...

Lorraine


--- "David R. Hoffpauir" <env_drh at shsu.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> If you wanna see a hell hole, drive east.  I've been there for the past
> four days.  Livingston is messed up.  The Indian Reservation, Messed Up. 
> Woodville, MESSED THE HELL UP!  KIRBYVILLE is just heartbreaking, parts
> are wiped out really, really bad. Didn't see too much structural damage
> until I got there. That's as far east as I went.  Parts futher east got it
> much worse.  Roads were pretty much impassable until Monday.  Grumpy
> Highway Patrolmen every where.  Road blocks all over.  I got stopped three
> times trying to get back out. Thousands upon thousands of trees down. 
> Power lines everywhere, so no electricity anywhere.  110 degree heat
> index.  No water.  No ice.  No breeze. Food has mostly been Spam and gummy
> worms. The ONLY gas I can find is in Huntsville, so count yourself lucky.
> We've been bathing and drawing flush water from the stock tank.  Every day
> we worked until we dropped.
> 
> Mom lost her roof, a carport, and a barn. That's all scattered for as far
> as I could see. Three huge oaks down in the yard.  There were 12 people in
> her house during the storm.  All are okay. Trucked them out to Arkansas on
> Tuesday. My sis-in-law's house has a tree through the middle with 30 other
> trees down around it.  Other neighbors didn't fare much better.  Mom will
> be moving to Huntsville as soon as we can wrangle it.
> 
> Me?  PO'ed that no one thought enough to include me in the check in,
> grumpy, tired as hell.  Finally got a shower, so the ape stink is gone.
> The sunburn will take a few days. Anyway, I'm glad all are well.  If you
> can find a way, please help your neighbors to the east and count yourself
> as really, really lucky.
> 
> regards,
> dsd
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