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T he day after Hurricane Ike felled trees throughout East Texas, two big ONCOR bucket trucks drove through downtown Rusk on their way to the electrical substation on U.S. Highway 84 east. I stood on the street corner with a goofy grin on my face - and I just waved and waved until they turned the corner and vanished from my sight. More ... F olks along El Camino Real are busy getting things back to normal after the visit from Hurricane Ike. I wasn't able to do a column last week because the electricity was out and I don't do very well with paper and pencil anymore. I blame it on all the teachers who made me write hundreds of times, "I will not or I shall not do something." hundreds of times. More ... W hat a week. This issue marks the last for the month of September '08. Saturday as I tried to relive the week before, it was very difficult. How quickly the sounds of a storm can subside in the mind. It is good that the bad fades quickly - the howling wind, the crack of limbs breaking. And yet, we know that it could have been so much worse. More ... |
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