LEANING INTO THE WIND.
"If you didn't leave," says the news reporter, "it's time to hunker down."
"Everyone trying to do the right thing -- go somewhere -- and getting nowhere fast."
"Stay calm," says the Texas governor, "stay patient. You've done the right thing."
"YOU'VE GOT YOUR MEMORIES ... YOU KNOW ... HERE (pointing at head) AND HERE (pointing at heart)" (Galveston resident talking about his preparations to get out of Galveston in anticipation of Hurrican Rita)
As Hurricane Rita heads toward the Coast of Texas -- Galveston and Houston -- the heart of the country's oil industry, we here in San Antonio, already housing thousands of evacuees from San Antonio, Texas, are waiting.
The big questions ... where ... and when ... will Rita hit. And, of course, what will it mean to us here in San Antonio, and to the poor people more clearly in the path of the storm.
As we talk about it here, asking, "Should we be worried?" we don't have enoguh information to know. Some people in SA are hoarding supplies, some are topping off their tanks (surely gas prices will go up again), and the question that often comes up -- "If it happened to you, what would you take with you?"
Most people say "photographs."
The memories that live in our hearts, and in our heads.
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