Last time I was here Allison flooded my car!!!

I was supposed to publish this post before we moved but its better late than never right!!!

So if you are confused by the title of this blog, I will explain!!! In June of 2001, a little over 10 years ago, Eric and I were on our way to visit family in Houston for the weekend!! We were very watchful of the weather because there was a Tropical Storm in the Gulf of Mexico! Before leaving for our trip, we took one last look at the weather and it looked like Allison was going to head north and dissipate before we were to arrive in Houston!!! So off we went!!! Once we got to the stretch of interstate 10 past Beaumont (where there is 3 lanes each way and absolutely nothing in site), I noticed that it was much darker ahead of us. Very black and eerie looking!!!! Before we could make it to the Beltway, the cars on the interstate came to a stop!!! We exited the interstate and took shelter in a store called Garden Ridge Pottery!! We spent our entire night there because not only did Allison head north like it was supposed to but it stalled for most of the night and then headed SOUTH and dumped even more rain on the exact area that we were in!!! We spent all night in that Garden Ridge Pottery with water slowly rising until it got up to our thighs! We were not there alone...there were plenty of people there!!      One man in particular we remember had fallen asleep on a display of pillows. He must have been having a dream because his hand reached out like he was grabbing something!! It is now an ongoing joke between me and Eric!!!  We even looted (is that a word?).  Since we were wet, we each grabbed a beach towel and the towel ended up keeping us nice and warm.