Family News

Here is a comment from my Mom, Linda. I will start this as a seperate post so that we can all comment for each other on it. The rest of you are welcome to read on and find out what the Blocks, Freedmans, Yambras, Snidemans, and others are up to:

Just an update from Adam's mom (Linda)- Uncle Duck and Aunt Martha, Sam & Ilana and the New Orleans family of 6 who were staying w/ them left for Ft. Worth this am, where they have friends w/ an extra house. They left at 8 am and were at Spring (50 miles away) at 11:30.Monica & Warren (Adam's first cousins)& their 2 little daughters left last night at 3:30 am for Austin and arrived safely before noon - a little over 8 hours (usually done in 2 1/2 hours).

Our neighbors who will be staying w/ us bought a generator and set it up this am at our house, so we will have refrigeration. So, I went to the grocery store for a final run. I had to walk w/ someone who was checking out to their car to get their basket. It was a zoo inside w/ empty shelves, crowded aisles and boxes of food that were on the shelves left for the customers to open and take. The wait in line was a pleasant 20 minutes, spent hearing and sharing Rita "preparation plans".When I came home, I felt like I had been on a hunting trip!

Our street is eerily quiet w/ people either gone out of town or inside their homes preparing -moving books, albums and valuable items to higher shelves. And the street is very clean - no trash cans, no recycling bins - even all the political signs have been temporarily removed. No doubt the proverbial calm before the storm..............

We expect several neighbors (20 - 35??) to come to us since we are 6 1/2 feet off the ground. I just hope I can get a good mah jongg game out of the group! (Always important to keep a good sense of humor during stressful times!)

Linda Block
12:58 PM