Hurricane Rita: Evacuation

As I am writing this we have had a couple of days of holding our breath. This has to do with Hurricane Rita because Dickinson, where Lisa's parents live, is right in the affected area. Initially the predictions were for the eye of Rita to pass straight over Dickinson, but "fortunately" (if I may say that...) it hit a little further east in a much less populated area. Lisa's parents, her brother and the cats evacuated on wednesday to Lisa's sister's place to the north west of Houston. We spoke to them this morning and they are fine where they are. They had a brief power out and lots of rain, but that's it. Of course there is no way of knowing what shape their house in Dickinson is in at this time, but judging from the path Rita took is seems that it could have been worse... We're still holding our breath somewhat until we find out.