Hey - we left home around midnight last night for central LA. The evac up 146 to Livingston moved well for the most part. Course it was the middle of the night. I have nothing but praise for the LE that waved us through each small town. We cut out of the convoy @ Livingston to go east - my self-made evacuation route. This took us across Indian Reservation and over the state line into Leesville.
So here we sit @ relative's house - kids are in the pool and someone said Rita is taking a northernly turn for LA. Is this so? Anyone know? We don't have cable here and internet is dial up.
If you're in Leesville, you're in my town. We live in the rural outskirts of town.
Our Mayor was just on the radio. He said if the information he has stays the same, we're in for the worse storm in our towns history. They are going to have a meeting at 2:00 with all the officials in town for last minute brain storming. Listen to radio station----105, fm. That's a local station for here in Leesville. They keep having updates till we lose power.
Rita is "wabbling" east, toward the TX/LA border, putting it directly over the refineries. But who knows what will happen tomorrow??
Dr. Neil Frank, our hurricane guru, says it wabbled to the west, now wabbling toward the east. But at least she's losing some of her punch. Stay safe!