The latest email from my friend in Lake Charles:
“Orange County Texas - The people are now being rescued off of their roofs and attics. They took a terrible blow in Orange (about 30 minutes from us) I have not seen these rescues on the news. They tell us on our local news rescue help did finally arrive.
They finally let us off curfew today but only until 8:00pm this evening when we are back under curfew (very serious fine after 8:00pm if you go out). Now if we do not go where we say we are going (something important) then they will come an arrest us ... daytime.
This is how it is done. I am stopped (check point) I say I am going to my home, to work or to church (the policeman files this info in the computer at that checkpoint). Now if I go to another part of town instead for any other reason (that is not important) then when I am stopped again (another check point) they will run my name through the computer to check me out to see if I am in the right place. They run our names in a computer, if we are not where we are suppose to be they will fine us $6000 or we can serve jail time. We are only to go out for a very good reason but we have to do what we need to do and return home. High tide was this evening. I heard water was coming over alot of the levees. I have a strange feeling.”
I’ll be praying for your friends.
What they said about the checkpoints and the strange feeling was a lot how I expressed coming back home after the wildfires in October. I left with flames about 15 feet on the west of my house and just a bit further on two other sides and was one of the blessed ones that God so graciously spared losing everything.
The first several weeks were just so surreal, but the first night or two is almost impossible to convey. Looking around and it being utterly silent and completely dark for as far as you could see and seeing only destruction in the day time. Definitely an unsettling feeling, evenwhile feeling so blessed.
Yes: we were observing today earlier that we’ve heard absolutely nothing from coastal areas other than Galveston area. I’m concerned about everything from 50miles west to 150 miles east of it.
Thanks for sharing...someone had said Orange, TX was gone. Guess that was bad information. I’m so happy Orange isn’t gone. ;o)