Our dance with Rita

Wow, Rita is gone. Like the whirlwind she created, she scared the hell out of us, brushed us with her presence, and slipped into the night. In the end, the city of Houston was left deflated with the expectation of devistation, and thankfully so. Our hearts go out to those who felt her wrath. Those towns and cities just to the east of us will be recovering for quite some time.

On that note, I decided during that period of waiting for Rita to make landfall to do a little analog blogging with the intention of posting once life returned to some sort of normalcy. What follows are the events, and my reflections, that preceded Rita.