I live in Longview. Any other reports about East Texas other than Palestine?
If you're talking about hotels, I called several here in Lufkin yesterday and none had vacancies for this weekend. I would assume the same is true for Nacogdoches.
If you're talking weather, our weather guy has said we can expect winds of 45MPH or more, depending on where Rita goes. And of course the whole tornado/thunderstorm thing and flash floods.
I live in Palestine and I'm worried about the high winds and flooding. I've got a tree surgeon on the way to do some tree trimming and other work, long overdue. I was wondering about Longview myself just up there last Sunday. We need the rain but not like this. They say that the extended drouth we have been in makes the trees more suseptible to toppling over with the sandy soil we have down here. I was told that Sutherland's was having emergency generators jumping off the shelves last night.
I think this one is going to be very bad.
If I can get out of Magnolia, we're headed to Tyler. Son in Carthage. Small world, eh?