Hurricane Update

Rita Heads North
Hurricane Rita has veered well to the North and East. Our refugette that has holed up at our place should be able to return to an intact home in Rockport in a few days, and it looks like Houston will miss the worst of it (God willing). Austin may not even get a drop of much-needed rain out of the deal. (Austin actually gets more rain per year than London, England – it’ just that they get a tenth of an inch a day 250 days out of the year, and we get all of ours in 1-2 inch chunks).

This sort of thing always leaves me in a quandary. As Father Don pointed out at Mass on Wednesday, “You want to pray for it to go away, but you don’t really want to pray for it to go somewhere else.” God’s protection and peace to all those around Beaumont and Port Arthur. I hope they are able to get out or ride it out safely, as they were not really in the initial evacuation zones.