Thank you!
You're better off in College Station; I wish I was there! My elderly parents still won't leave, so here we sit in 100-degree temps. We're supposed to be getting a cold front coming in tonight, though, so maybe the worst will soon be over.As for the "blaming" tone of this article, what does anyone expect? This is the AP. You won't hear about how people are out with their chainsaws, clearing roads and helping neighbors get trees off their houses. You won't hear about how communities are pulling together and watching their neighbors' vacant houses and making sure everyone has food and water. HEB grocery stores is trucking in ice and bread. The Salvation Army is here preparing meals.
From what I hear, the national (and even state) media has all but forgotten this story. That seems so strange. This is a HUGE story down here. There is no gasoline, so people are becoming stranded. People who are on medications have no way of getting them. The National Guard (or Texas Guard) has roadblocked most of the counties and cities, making it impossible to go anywhere. so everyone sits around all day listening to their only source of outside information and news: KLVI radio station in Beaumont. (They're streaming it on the Net, btw, at klvi.com). If it weren't for this station, people would be totally isolated from everything but their immediate neighbor.
For instance, a lady called in yesterday needing insulin syringes. Someone in the same town called the radio station, got her phone number, then took her a supply of syringes. And when someone finds gasoline that has been trucked in and is being pumped by generator, they'll call in to KLVI to tell everyone. Yesterday, there was a 5 hour wait in line at Walmart.
For some reason, I can't get a Waylon & Willie song out of my mind: "Let's go to Luckenback, Texas..." :-)