Even though we closed the forest, (Rita) evacuees tried to find shelter in the campgrounds. At Caney Creek we are told there were 20 people in one of the buildings. |
Fortunately, no one was hurt which is very, very good considering the size of the storm. It could have been very bad. |
It's hard to keep hunters out of the woods. So we are trying to make everyone aware. |
These are really kind of isolated pieces of forest. Most of our forests in East Texas are public land surrounded by private land. |
We had prepared for a direct hit on the Sam Houston, but the storm side-stepped them and hit the Sabine and Angelina harder than we anticipated. |