Rita ditched Houston

The bottomline is - Rita promised a lot, delivered little. And thank goodness, we decided to come back to Houston without spending time on the road. The evacuation was a big mess. Anyways, we had loads of fun on friday with everybody being at Rice. I took a bicycle tour around town on fridya late afternoon and came by many interesting views.
It started drizzling lightly from evening, and light winds too. Around midnight it was still the light drizzle and moderate winds. Felt nice after days of stiffling heat. Played lots og bluf at student centre with all. I had decided to stay in Duncan Hall, but decided to move to Grand hall where all the fun was going on. Valhalla was giving away beer at 25c, with the logo "eat, drink and be merry. you might die tomorrow". Played some football and frisbee. There was a glorious sunset with a full half circle of rainbow. And I slept through the whole night, woke up in the morning to find only some fallen twigs, leaves and branches.


Check out both pre and post Rita pictures at:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~santa/pics/05Rita/