Folks where I live in the extreme southeastern corner of Texas aren’t indifferent to the suffering of others. Our area was the first to take in those neighbors to the east fleeing Katrina, and fled with Katrina evacuees when Rita rammed our area. But Southeast Texans and even some of those from Southwestern Louisiana grew …
Directions to Ford Park in Beaumont, Texas, a shelter for those fleeing Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. It is just heartbreaking to see photos and read stories about what Hurricane Katrina did to the Gulf Coast, especially to New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I was stationed at the U.S. Navy Construction Battalion Center …
Hurricane Katrina is a little more than 663 miles away from me right now, which is a comfortable distance. The National Weather Service keeps insisting they know which way the storm is going to track and the general vicinity in which it will hit (the northern Gulf of Mexico). But their estimates keep getting moved …
Hurricanes and other natural disasters often leave those people who are not trying to survive with little to do. Since I am off work until a week from today, I spent last night watching TV and surfing the internet. Thus, I went to bed about 1 a.m. I woke up at 7 a.m. and …
Do you know the latest about the continuing Russia-U.S. Election saga? Well, if you do know you are ahead of me. I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer. — Whoa. I’m channeling my inner Jim Morrison. All the cable news people were talking all this stuff about the Donald’s boys — …
