[laz]

When I drove cross-country last year from Los Angeles to Miami along I-10, exactly a year before Katrina hit, I spent three days in Texas and four days in Louisiana. Four days in Louisiana because I had to wait for Hurricane Frances to move out of Florida. Three days in Texas because it's so big.

While driving through Texas, I could feel a sense of American majesty and history. When I crossed the border into Louisiana, I felt I had entered a Central American country.

After reading the last several posts made here by Texans, I have to stand up and say, "I salute you, Texas".

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Here is a lamestream quote for you. AP is p!ssed that this did not fit their agenda:
"Not all Texans were happy with a slow return home. John Willy, the top elected official in Brazoria County, southwest of Houston, said he would ignore the state's staggered return plan.

"I am not going to wait for our neighbors to the north to get home and take a nap, before I ask our good people to come home," he said in a statement. "Our people are tired of the state's plan! They have a plan too and it's real simple. They plan to come home when they want."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/rita;_ylt=Ak7yfOtQjfEDlzg.W8vy4HuCbpwv;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl