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Willie Green is back home.
Actually, we didn't want to fight the traffic, so my one brother and I just buttoned up our own homes and went to my other brother's home (all here in Cypress) to hunker down. We didn't have to hunker much. All we got was a lotta wind and a little bit of rain. No damage to anybody's properties, just sweep up fallen leaves, pine needles, twigs (too small to call them "branches") etc. I could've been back home yesterday morning instead of today, but we all stayed at my brother's to watch football on the TV. The electricity flickered a little Friday night, but nobody lost power (although nearby neighborhoods did.)

Family members who evacuated Wednesday night to Lake Charles wound-up in somebody's home south of Shreveport. (Mom, nephew, niece, sister-in-law, sister-in-law's folks and family). They're all OK, but got the worst of the wind and rain. Not sure yet when Mom and sister-in-law are coming home. Needless to say, they're all concerned about sister-in-law's family's properties in Lake Charles.

Sounds like your family had an adventure they'll be talking about for years!

I hope your SIL's family home escaped damage. They were showing pictures of Lake Charles this morning some things were completely wiped out and some were untouched. Let us know how they fared as soon as you hear Willie.

Willie, glad you made it okay. I knew you should be okay as my daugther lives up in the Spring area and they didn't have any damage. Everything was east of the Houston area.

For some LA info and especially the Lake Charles area nose around the links in the following article. Especially the Lake Charles link in the posted article, the MSNBC link, and few of the others have some photos to show what that area experienced. Needless to say it wasn't good.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490933/posts

The media isn't showing this maybe because it is a smaller more rural area, I don't know. I got an email yesterday from a friend down SE La way and their is major flooding down there and it's not getting any coverage. NO is still the MSM focal point.

Anyway take care. I got a huge oak across my house and haven't been allowed in yet to see what I'm going to have to deal with. But tomorrow I'm going to find a way in if I can get back to the area.