One of the areas I ride my bike is Taylor Lake Village. It is an older community with lots of big trees. I have been riding there for years. Two things I notice now when I ride there now are it seems a lot brighter. Many of the trees were knocked down by the storm. And second I can now see into back yards that until now were out of sight behind wood fences.
It seems people have responded in one of two ways. For some people it is just all too overwhelming. They freeze and stand there waiting for some one to fix it all for them. Typically they expect that some one to be the government. We have seen many news reports from various relief centers where people are angry because the government has not come and fixed their house. I hate to stereotype people but I think this is the mentality we instill by too big of a government. The other group of people are those who take charge of their own life and situation. They look at things and say what do I need to do to fix this. I am proud to say Elizabeth and I are in this second group. There are people who feel when dealt lemons, make lemon aid. The owner of the house pictured below is in that group. This huge tree fell directly on his mail box. Since Mother Nature had provided a nice new mail box stand he used it. I talked with the owner. He said they were blessed that they had no damage to the house itself. I said it must have been loud when the tree fell. He said he did not know as they had evacuated. I asked where they went. Usually people will then name another Texas city like Dallas or San Antonio. He said to his sister's house in Camino South. That is the subdivision we live in. I asked where and said Sea Foam. That is two streets over from our house. So this guy evacuated TO our neighborhood while we were evacuating FROM it. I guess it is all a matter of perspective.
