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Hurricane Rita was a great awakening for me .. I was (and still am) living in Galveston, and the media was proclaiming the end of life as we had known it. Remember, this was just after Katrina. We got the Order to evacuate. 2 cats 1 wife and a sister-n-law. Probably at no time since the war between the states were there more guns, people and cats on the move.

We evacuted to a hotel in Dayton. I was working in Baytown .. So I was going back and forth. It was 100 degrees out, no gas and we had traffic jams that were legendary. Peoples tempers were flaring and when we lost power we had the choice of opening the doors and windows, or roasting like briskette in the smoker. As things turned out it we didn't make out too bad. Our home was fine and the evacuation was short lived.. But I got to realizing just how exposed we were. We had little means to protect ourselves.. Police response would not have been available, I needed to take steps to protect myself my family and the cats. I bought a nice pistol , some training and went through the CHL process..

A few years later we had Ike, It was much worse, but at least I was prepared.