Some day when you have the opportunity, you can explain the reasoning for that decision to us.......LOL.
My sister-in-law grew up in Lake Charles.
Her folks still live there and have a big home with extra bedrooms.
And her sister lives there, with a big home with extra bedrooms.
They're good people and we've enjoyed visiting with them before, so it'll be nice to be with family. But Rita is a big storm, and even if Lake Charles is some 140 miles or so EAST of Houston, I figure they're still gonna get hit with some kind of bad weather because it's the strong side of the storm.
Going west, we don't know anybody.
But as long as you're totally out of the path of the weather, I figure even sleeping in the car in a Micky-D's parking lot (if all the motels are full) would be safer. Needless to say, Mom doesn't see it that way.