On Wednesday, the 12th, all the residents were nervous about whether the tropical depression would come this way. As accustomed to hurricanes as many of these residents are, some lost everything in Katrina and came here after that occurred so rightfully they get nervous with an impending storm. Emergency shelter is limited to bringing folks to the Care Center facility and having everyone huddle in the center corridor between two doors at opposing ends of the hallway. Not a great place to be in a real bad storm but is the best they can do. Luckily, the storm went towards Louisianna and didn't come to north Texas. We are located 64 miles north of Houston, near Lake Livingston (in the town of Livingston).
As I mentioned in the my last entry, the residents here are awesome. Some are grumpy in that contankerous grandparent way that people can get but most are very sweet. I had a chance to chat with another gentleman the other evening. He worked for 35 years for NASA as an engineer and is most proud of the lunar experiments that happened during the Apollo space mission. He was in charge of telemettry and instrumentation. A fascinating guy !!
I will take some pictures today of the Care Center and facilities and upload them so you all can see where we are and what the facilities are like.
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