Moving On

It was late Saturday afternoon before I got the word that hubbie, sis and mom are OK in the Houston area. Sis has electric phones, so of course they don’t work. Hubbie’s cell phone can’t get a signal, but sis’s can. So they are charging it up in the car to be able to continue to use that one phone.

Without power, hubbie is planning on making a run up here to do some shopping for a generator and to get some clothes washed. He has not been able to make it to our Pasadena home yet, but is planning on trying tomorrow. Neighbors who were contacted by phone, say it is OK and that the neighborhood did fine.

I am concerned about Mother and am hoping that the residence that she lives in will be able to get generators to be powered up soon. She needs to be where things are configured for people with wheel chairs. Plus, it would be much more comfortable for her if she could get somewhere that is air conditioned. After leaving the hospital she had been checked into a nursing home for special nursing care for an infected bone in her ankle. Hubbie and I were under the impression that if they had to evacuate the nursing home, she would be bussed to Austin. But, on Thursday, they discharged her early and she became the family’s responsibility. By then it was too late to get her anywhere but to sis’s home in Crosby. The traffic on the road would have made a trip in a regular vehicle too strenuous for her. Of course, in my mind, undergoing the storm and its aftermath is too strenuous for her!!

But, they are all OK –no electricity and none expected for weeks. But, at least they are well, and not sick or injured.