[Cincinatus' Wife]

Carlos Antonio Rios photos / Chronicle Willie Stewart, photo at left, holds daughter Bisket, 2, as they walk into the George R. Brown Convention Center, open early this morning for Louisiana survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Volunteers stopped to pray before the arrival of the evacuees at the newly readied shelter.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Sept. 2, 2005, 11:27PM

Brazoria County has room for evacuees

Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

LAKE JACKSON - Hurricane Katrina's rampage put Brazoria County officials and residents in an unfamiliar position — aiding, instead of being, evacuees.

An estimated 1,000 to 1,200 evacuees from the storm are in Brazoria County, said Jeanie McDonald, a Salvation Army volunteer. Only five were in a shelter, she said. The rest are at motels, renting beach houses or staying with friends or relatives. Toni Hodges Klasel, director of the Brazoria County Red Cross, said there's still plenty of room at the Second Baptist Church shelter in Angleton.

More information is available on the city Web site:

www.ci.lake-jackson.tx.us.

[Coldwater Creek]

This is not funny, but only in the South would a woman named Willie have a child named Bisket.