All my evacuees are fine

All "my" evacuees came through Rita in style. They were in the northwest part of Houston, and they were far enough west that they didn't even lose power. The big grocery stores start opening up tomorrow afternoon, and they all have food, water and gasoline to get them through until then. So the crisis is past and they all made it through.

I'll sleep easy tonight.

By the way, this all worked out just beautifully for us -- we get full credit for being willing to take an extra sixteen people into the apartment where we already keep our family of eight, and they are all quite absurdly grateful to us...but since none of them made it out of Houston, we didn't have to put up with any of the annoyance of actually having them in the flat. I highly recommend that, whenever possible, you arrange to get credit for generosity without actually having to do anything. Very highly efficient way to rack up relational capital...