Best wishes to all of our southeast Texas members. I have walked a few centimeters in your cycling shoes, having been flooded out twice with water and twice with mud while growing up in west Los Angeles. However, ours were relatively isolated incidents, with business-as-usual in the rest of the city and a mostly intact and properly functioning infrastructure. It must be much more difficult when the entire metro area is so severly impacted.

My younger son evidently brought the family flooding curse with him from his native southern California. He chose Houston as the location of the second internship of his Doctor of Physical Therapy program, since his girlfriend is doing her MS in bioengineering at Rice. He arrived about four days ahead of Harvey -- the things we do for love.

Houston area BFers -- stay safe and, when you can, let us know how you are doing.