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I wasn't going to say this, but what the heck. It had always been a family "joke" that Houston never gets hurricanes when *I* live here.

All of my family lived here for Alicia and some other smaller TS's, but I was *away* in my other home, Oklahoma. Now, the family is all *gone* and here I am, with the lucky streak having run out, it appears.

My parents stayed home for Alicia and just lost a few shingles and 2 very large pine trees, which fell on the detached garage and thankfully, not the house. That was in the Memorial area of SW Houston and supposedly got 100 mph winds.

I had forgotten until *today* that they also told me they were without electricity for 5 days afterwards. This is the part that is freaking me out--extended power outage.

We evac'ed my mom out of an assisted living home near South Shore Harbor in about '90, I think, because it was mandatory that relatives come get the residents (as opposed, to say, St Bernard Parish, LA) -- but that storm never came this way. LOL, we only took her to the Holiday Inn at Hobby. But, see, I *lived* here then, so we dodged the bullet.