Prayers for Rita victims

Alright friends,

My mom lives in Houston. She lives on the northwest side, but in Houston none the less. Yesterday, after much pressure from her daughter, she spent from 2:30 a.m. until 5:30-6:00 p.m. on the road and she only got 75 miles out of town. Calculating her mileage and her gas she decided that she didn't want to be alone with her puppies and out of gas on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere when the storm came through.

She made a calculated risk and turned her trusty car around on that little two lane highway and headed for home. She returned home in 50 minutes what had taken her nearly 16 hours to traverse earlier that day. Today she is boarding up her windows, wrapping up her glass and filling the bathtub with water for drinking should she need it. Then she's going another 30 miles northwest (if she can get there) to a friend's house who lives in a cinderblock apartment building to wait out the storm.

Please say a prayer for her.

jen