[Coco] After Rita

[Dave Kelly]

Well, I guess an update for Sunday September 25, 2005 is in order. 
Sorta.  Rita has  passed and the world around  here is returning to the 
land of the sane.

Drove into Magnolia a while ago to eat. Hurricane rations get old quick. 
One steak house open, McDonalds and Burger King open. Gas stations still 
out of fuel.

Here in Todd Mission I could find no damage. One person on our street 
said he had a tree come down. Only hiccups in the power. Enough to reset 
your clock or your computer.  No outages.  Not enough rain to wet the 
ground good.

Todd Mission is in the lower SE corner of Grimes county. Magnolia is in 
the upper NW corner of Montgomery county. Six miles apart. In between is 
a mile of the western tip of Waller county. Both Grimes and Montgomer 
counties are dry to on premise alcohole. That mile of Waller county on 
Hwy 1774 has 2 salloons. One has been there since 1937 and I have talked 
to 3 generation that frequent the place. Both were open and very very 
busy Saturday.

Lets see. The newspaper started back this morning, so I can read the 
funnies. I see butterflies out in the weed patch. My old tom cat is 
curled up under the work shop. The calender says it late September and 
the thermometer registers 103 degrees.  Yes, everything is as it was.

Dave