Hurricane Relief

Texas Baptist Men - Disaster Relief Group. I hope I got the name right. I am a Texas Baptist, and I am a man, but I am not an official member of this group of dedicated men, and their wives, who respond to help others whenever and where ever disaster strikes. These are volunteers from all over the State of Texas who donate their time to help those who are in need of necessary services after disaster strikes. This group is preparing meals to be distributed by the Red Cross to folks who are still without power, funds, and necessary services following hurricane Dolly.

If you wondered why you were not receiving the usual return banter in the comments section yesterday, it is because I was being worked into a salty puddle by these good folks who were set up in the parking lots of our church. They have cooking teams from all over the state who have their own equipment and who set up to cook when others can't. These groups were from East Texas, and the Dallas area churches. They will be here through this weekend and maybe into next week. In addition to cooking teams, they have teams to do crisis counseling, debris removal, flood cleanup, and a variety of other needed services. Many are retired, but some take vacation time from their chosen vocations to help out.

I volunteered to help for about four hours yesterday, and I had no trouble going to sleep last night. Outside temperatures here are in the high nineties with major humidity and mosquitoes. They served 16,000 meals from this location the first day. I'm not sure of yesterday's count, but I'm sure it was close to the same number.

They are about to start this morning preparing for the noon meal. As soon as I finish this and get some coffee and a breakfast taco, I intend to return and give them some help. We can say "Thank you God for saving us.", by giving back to our fellowmen in time of need. This is one of the most valuable services provided by our denomination.


Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather

Sky Watch Friday - New Format

Hurricane Dolly pounds us with near 100 mph winds and twenty three inches of rain.

Goodbye Dolly!

Greetings friends and fellow bloggers everywhere. Your prayers and well wishes were greatly appreciated. We just got power back about an hour ago and I just downloaded a couple of photos of during Dolly and after. Miss Dolly decided to come to Pappy's house. I was trying my best to wish her on to the unpopulated King Ranch, but Noooooo, she had to come right over my house and stay for a while. She started huffing on us at about 10:00 A. M. yesterday. By noon, we were experiencing her 70 to 90 mile per hour winds and torrential rain. This lasted until about 2:10 A.M. this morning. We lost power just after my last post yesterday. It came back on about an hour ago. Bebe and I suffered minimal damage at our casa and the same with the kids. We were able to get coffee this morning and that made my day.

I had a lot of debris in the pool, but I found the skimmer covers and it looks like we'll be back in business by tomorrow. Pappy didn't get much sleep last night and I was just about out of gas when Bebe snapped this flattering photo. I have since shaved, showered and splashed on some smell goody. Life is sweet (Buff). Bebe and I really appreciate all the thoughts and prayers of those of you we blog with everyday. I personally put a lot of stock in prayer and I am always impressed by your faithfulness to do so. I'm not clicking on all cylinders today, so I am not going to attempt anything clever. I'll work on that for tomorrow.