Oh, goody... a Texas thread! I can never get enough. Has Pardeck shown up yet to bash us? ;-)
(BTW, anyone wanting to read more about the Lone Star State can find more Texas threads on my Links page.)
The part about riding out the hurricane is at the bottom of the page, titled "Hurricane Rita - 2 days later."
BTW, is there any way to make a blog read from top to bottom chronologically? Starting at the bottom of a page just seems so weird.