April Showers in Texas

Eric is going to Dr. Burzynski's Clinic in Houston, Texas. He is doing so much better in such a short time!!

While we are in Houston, we decided to take a trip up to Conroe and see if we could find any information in their Courthouse. While doing genealogy over the years we found a document which named my grandparents and her sister and brother in-law as heirs of property. However, something happened, and they never received anything from the estate. In fact, my mellow uncle traveled there once trying to find out what became of the estate and was arrested. It was interesting to drive up there and to try to put two and two together. We believe that we have a really good idea how it vanished but we need to find the documentation that was altered before we can really pass judgement. We definitely will have to return to do some more research if Eric is up to it.

The weather has been crazy here. I grew up with hurricanes in Florida but the rain we experienced the other day was even worse than I have ever experienced during those. In fact, just around the corner from our hotel 8 cars and an ambulance were totally covered in an intersection of a major highway. It appeared as if they were traveling and suddenly there was a flash flood. Just up the road in the other direction, a car was swept into a drainage ditch with the driver in it. The following day, after the crews of divers could go into the drainage system under interstate highway 10, they found the driver and car. Unfortunately, the driver had not survived.

For more excitement, there is an alert out for the Swine Flu in this area. The first USA death was right here in Houston. They have closed many of the schools in the area but there still seem to be many people out shopping.

We've met many new people here. There are George and Barbara from North Palm Beach. They use to live in Manhattan, Long Island, now they live right across the inter coastal waterway from where my aunt and uncle use to have a condo, and property in Ocala, Florida and Vermont too! We have had many interesting conversations with them. Then there was a great Amish Family of seven from Ohio that we really enjoyed visiting with. In fact, on the night of the torrential rain storm three of them rode with us to the Clinic for an evening group meeting. The storm started as we were in the meeting and when we went to leave we had to wait a while to be able to access the car. Mind you, we were driving a Toyota Prius as we began our journey home.
I am afraid that these poor souls will never ride in a car again since we literally plowed through the swelling streets. The grand-father told us, that in their carriage the horses could go through the water with the high wheels easier than all of us in the car. I am sure that the grand-mother in the back seat was saying many a prayer!! I have no doubt that her prayers were answered and that is why we didn't go our normal way back to the hotel where there was so many serious situations and so much intense flooding. All these memories of our new friends will always be treasured.