Amber burned some of her hair today.  After the initial freak out, it seemed kind of funny.  She just got to close to the fire when she was cooking.  The burned hair smelled nasty.  Probably because so much was burned.  Belinda helped her trim it up so that it could look more even on both sides.  But it still looks bad.  We are just being polite about it.  Poor girl!  We still catch her crying at times, especially when we notice dust being kicked up on the road because someone is coming down.  She gets her hopes up and then you see her shoulders drop as if all her hopes leave her body.  It’s been four months now and her parents still haven’t showed up.  We can only imagine the worst.

But really, we are all expecting people up here.  My dad and mom, my brother and his wife, my in-laws and Amber’s family.  We wouldn’t have room for everyone in reality, but when the SHTF, we started calling all her family and told them we were headed up to our place in the country.  Everyone knew how to get here but Amber’s family.  We gave them good directions though.  All I can think of is that everyone waited so long to get out of the city.  A few weeks back a passerby told us that he had heard the military had made Houston a base and weren’t letting anyone in or out.  We can’t confirm that though.

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