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.
Yeah, our family evacuees are actually in some little town called "Zwolle, La", which is (near as I can figure) about 50 miles due east of Nacodoches, just on the Louisiana side of something called "Toledo Bend Reservoir". I never heard of it before, but it looks like a big long lake on the Tx/La border, just south of Shreveport. Phone communication with them has been difficult, but when we've made contact, we've been able to determine that everybody is OK and that their biggest concern is how soon they'll be able to leave.
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.
Sorry to hear that.
I hope the damage isn't as bad as it sounds.
I assume you'll at least need some roof repairs, but I hope it didn't crash all the way through and take out the walls and everything else in that part of the house.
It's weird, but in addition to being thankful that we were lucky, my brothers and I are also feeling guilty about being "disappointed" that we missed some of the excitement. It certainly isn't the type of "excitement" that we'd want to wish on anybody. But at the same time, after I get done raking up all the little loose crap that blew out of the trees, I'm gonna have to turn on the lawn sprinklers so the grass doesn't completely dry out and die. Jeeeez, I certainly didn't want to get flooded, but we really could've used maybe an inch or two more of rain than what we got.