Not many fires in downtown Conroe....but in the rest of Montgomery county over a thousand fire responses this summer already.
It’s still really, really dry here.
It had been that way here at the house. Only rained 3 times since last Aug until a couple of weeks ago.
Like I’d said on the other (”TD FOUR has formed”) thread, we’re headed down to Texas for a vacation. And yes...we have relatives down there.
Right now, the plan is to drive from where we are (Seattle) to Cleveland, which isn’t that far from Conroe. My in-law’s place (where the kids have been the last month) is smack in the middle of the Sam Houston National Forest. The timeline puts us in Albuquerque just after midnight on Monday 8/1, with us reaching the NM/TX state line at around 6 in the morning. We were planning to meet with the in-laws and the kids in Huntsville (after driving all day) for dinner that night and then do the last hour to their place.
The thing that I fear is just what others have said...Don slowing down and intensifying like Alicia did. Driving a minivan in a possible hurricane is NOT something I made a contingency for. This is something I have NO experience with.
Trust me...I want y’all to get the rain. Lord knows you need it. I just don’t relish the idea of frightened kids and a possible ruined vacation.
(Maybe it’s God’s way of providing a check-off of an item on my bucket list...”Experience a hurricane in real-time”.)