OT: I'm running from Rita

Be safe and Godspeed to you and your mom.

Tricia - did you get my last email last night with phone number?

Kellie - I have yours and you have mine still, right?

Anyone else care to email off list with a phone number to be a point of contact?

Hugs to all, Tina - who tired as could be, didn't sleep worth a toot all night, up at 4:30! Yikes!

Prayers are with you Tricia......I feel so bad for what you are going through. Hopefully it won't be so bad......take care.

I'm not sure when I shall return or what I will return to!

If you have some extra prayers or good thoughts lying around, please pray for me. I have been very emotional all night. I am luckier than the Katrina victims I have been helping feed. I had/have a chance to load my car and get out of here. It is impossible to decide what to take. I am trying to just rely on faith and I keep repeating.... "it is only a material possession" but it is so hard. I am taking my Bible, family photos, important papers, and a few mementos that mean the most. I have gotten everything off of the floor that I can, but if the roof blows off, or the house floods twenty feet, that won't matter much.

Quilt something and think of me!!!

Tricia

Oh Tricia!! Big hugs and yes lots of prayers. Check in when you can.

Jan

"A&T" wrote in news:W37Ye.1129$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net:

I wonder where all of the people in Galveston & Houston are going to go?!?!? I just talked to DSis in Austin and she says that ALL the possible evac places up that way are already full of Katrina victims! The whole state of Texas needs a HUG considering what they have already done and are going to have to do! DSis says they are predicting 70 MPH straight line winds in her area as a result of Rita. And that's at the strength the storm is NOW. If she grows into a cat5 who knows *what* will happen?? I'm praying that the storm weakens (or at least doesn't get any stronger) AND that there aren't any spin off tornadoes. Tornadoes get started down there and the poor people who are a considerable distance inland will also be in danger! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

Prayers and dry thoughts on the way, Tricia!

Prayers, good thoughts, ((((hugs))) headed to you, your MIL and all your loved ones.

Mary

Tricia, I'm praying for you and everyone else in the area. Stay safe, and we'll all hope you come home to everything that you left behind -- safe and sound and *dry*!

Thinking of you and sending good thoughts, hugs, and warm wishes. Please let us know you made it through ok. ME-Judy

Saying prayers you and your family will be safe and your home will make it thru Rita. Michele in Ohio

Prayers on the way, Tricia, for you and your family and everyone threatened by Rita!!