It's been awesome seeing all of the stories of people helping one another this last week. We were blessed to stay dry in fannett, but most of our neighbors were not so lucky. We're doing what we can to help out. We've got a family of 5 from up the road staying with us right now. We only knew them to wave to in passing, but I saw them try to get out Tuesday morning and have to turn around and return to their flooded house. I told them to grab what they could and come on, and they've been here 4 days. Turns out we've made some great new friends. We're also having people come from Beaumont to get a hot shower, refill water containers, and wash clothes. We have 3 showers (including two walk-ins that are fairly handicap friendly, and two sets of washer and dryers. If any of my setxsports buddies need to bring your families out, get ahold of me tomorrow (today) at (409)781-3185. due to the uniqueness of my relationship with you guys, as we've mostly never met, this offer is only extended to people who've been well established on this board. I feel like I know many of you, despite not meeting face to face, but I'm a little leery of some stranger seeing this post and trying to take advantage of my generosity and trying something. Never hurts to be a little cautious.
As an aside, my wife got a little upset with me this morning. I had to explain to her that, although our freezers have a pretty good supply of meat, she needed to take down her Facebook offer to feed any and all people involved in the local rescue efforts. While I'm grateful for what they're doing, supplies are tough to replenish right now, and we're currently feeding 9 mouths a meal. She didn't consider the fact that if the Cajun navy showed up for dinner we'd be reduced to eating dry cereal and canned beets for the next week