We live in Southeast Texas, (near Beaumont which is an hr. and a half from Houston).

From the "projected path" of the hurricane, we will be on the bad side of it.
They haven't told us to evacuate except for a "voluntary" evacuation, but several counties around us are already being told that they have a mandatory evacuation..

I'll be praying for everyone else in Rita's path. It's already a Cat. 5.

I have a lot of relatives that live at the beach where its supposed to hit pretty badly... We haven't been able to get a hold of them, but I really hope they evacuated like they were asked to do.