Mom said that even where they are in Lufkin they didn't have water or electricity on Saturday but finally got water on Sunday. Aunt Carolyn has a two burner butane hot plate so they've been cooking on that. After hearing that Mom had taken a shower but couldn't use her hairdryer OR her curling iron because there's no electricity (oh, the injustice of life) and about how bad the house is going to smell because all of the meat in the freezer is going to spoil (if there's a house left), I talked to Dad. They had tried to go home but had been stopped. The authorities aren't letting people back into the areas most affected yet.
Luckily Dad is part of 'the authorities' and he was going to use his badge to get home and see what was left of the house. I think the not knowing is the worst part. There's also a big problem because two of the prisons in Beaumont were destroyed and they've got to move the prisoners into a more permanent situation. At the moment they're extremely overcrowded into one prison that was already full. Soounds like a very bad situation. So, Dad headed back yesterday afternoon to check on the house and help sort out the prisons.
It's hard to get a good picture of it all. Mom is all doom and gloom and Dad is just waiting to see for himself. Hopefully I'll be able to speak to them again this afternoon and find out what's happened.
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