All for nothing?
Now the news tells us that Houston will miss the brunt of it, and the eye will pass over the TX-Lousiana border, instead. Which is good for us, but frightening as hell for all those people over there. The news anchors on KPRC 2 or whatever are making a big show of shock and outrage over the lack of gasoline. My bf’s brother-in-law pointed out that they’re also backtracking from the hysteria they were pushing yesterday. Yesterday, they made people believe that all of Harris County was doomed. Today, they’re saying only some of us should have tried to leave. They say soldiers from Fort Hood are coming to fill the tanks of cars stuck on the freeways.
My boyfriend’s brother and wife are going to try to join us today. I have no idea how bad the roads are.
I’m worried about my friend Dot, who lives near Lake Charles. I talked to her yesterday. They were actually in Missouri, but determined to make the 8-hour drive home in order to secure their belongings. Now the storm’s headed right for them – if it stays on its current path, that is. No one can really know what it’s gonna do. I’m going to try to call them and see where they are. It’s hard to call people and has been since freaking Wednesday. To call anyone, I have to try at least four times. It’s easier if you use the landlines, but hardly anyone has those anymore, these days.
I called my ex-husband this morning to tell him not to come (as if he could make it through) because it’s my weekend with the kids, dammit, and I’m not going to be able to pick them up on Sunday, what with the gasoline being non-existent and all. He said he wasn’t coming, and then actually apologized for his words yesterday, explaining that they were due to nerves. Shocking. I don’t think he’s apologized to me for anything in seven or eight or ten years. I thanked him for his apology, said that, yes, I would move us farther north if the storm came back this way (as if I could) and that was that.
There’s not a lot to do. None of the stores are open, and, as usual in a Houston summer, it’s too hot to hang around outside. We’re about to watch Batman Begins. I’ve already seen it twice. We were going to drink a bunch of beer last night, but we were all more tired than we thought and fell asleep early.
I have to go because the kids are using this computer to take turns playing their own personal World of Warcraft marathons. If there’s nothing else to do later, I might play, too. I’m on Skywall. I’m a human named Sabreena, or else a night elf named Xora. If you see me, say hi.
Continued good wishes to everyone, and thanks to y’all for yours.
