Last Saturday, my SAR teammates and I had the privelege of attending the anniversary memorial service for hurricane victims at Crystal Beach.

We arrived by way of Winnie that afternoon, driving in from a fundraiser for the CHASER foundation in Conroe, to have dinner with a friend of my teammates before the memorial.  On arriving, we found a pair ( Read more... )

It's strange how memories embed themselves in a place.

I spent a *lot* of time on Galveston Island during my growing-up-in-south-Texas days.

Driving down Broadway last October, the ravages of Ike seemed surreal in contrast with those sunny childhood memories.  Mountains of debris the size of respectable buildings loomed in a couple of empty lots ( Read more... )