Deep East Texas

It's never a comforting feeling when The Weather Channel sends ANY of their veteran reporters to your area.

I woke up at 3:00 AM to the sound of water pouring down, rain drops being whipped against the window by the wind, and crazy loud thunder.

This logo went away when Temple-Inland was sold. You'd see the logo on boards that had come from the mills, but eventually it was all pretty much gone.

By Sunday, our high temperature is predicted to be 99°. But, that's two days away. What if that forecast changes a bit?

Before you get any joke ideas...it was on my windshield BEFORE I started driving, so it's not like I'm asking you to identify a smashed bug.

We haven't seen Guy make his way to Deep East Texas. He's been through Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and others, but not over here behind the Pine Curtain.

Most people that I've spoken to tend to believe that we won't see things go back exactly as they were.

Just this weekend - on Saturday to be exact - I was driving back home, and something in what used to be a parking lot of an old abandoned store caught my eye.

I realize we don't have a professional-sized stadium to use as a drive-in here in Deep East Texas...but, we have a state university with a football stadium...

So, that made me start thinking - because that's how my mind wanders randomly - what would the most Deep East Texas tattoo look like...?

There are things things that we keep in our trucks - or cars - that we consider essential. If you don't have them you may want to reconsider getting them...

I can hear you now. "Mark, that's not a big deal." No, maybe it's not. However, it's enough to make me nervous.