Saturday morning -

Last night I actually had the best night's sleep in days. Turned off the TV around 11 and just went to bed. I did see one story about Houston's Mayor Bill White and a councilman going into Clear Lake to see if most people evacuated. They were told that a few apartment complexes had not evacuated. They went door to door to encourage them to leave and found that there were three major factors why they didn't leave: language barriers, not having a car reliable enough to drive out, and having no means to get out. They brought in three buses and were able to evacuate them. It just magnified the problem when disaster strikes that the poor and helpless suffer. They don't have some money saved for a hotel, or friends and family to shelter them. It is why God calls us to minister to the hopeless and the helpless. It made me thankful.

Today I was determined to get up and not watch the news first thing. So I took the dog out and then went to breakfast with the girls in the hotel. When I walked into the breakfast area the TV was on and it went to a live feed from a local Houston news station. That's went I broke into tears and had to leave. Not that I was overwhelmed by the images - it just came out of nowhere. I'm feeling better now - think I've been holding it in for a while.

We have a network of friends who are all going to share information as we hear it. It was good to see a report on The Weather Channel right on Clear Lake that they were not under water. We heard of someone that road out the storm not far from us that there is power. Our church has cancelled services Sunday and asking anyone (as of yesterday at least) to meet in the morning with work gloves, chain saws and anything else to come prepared to work. If you want to track our church's efforts visit www.gateway-community.org.

Not sure what the day holds yet. Will try to update later