Deep East Texas

If you're looking at buying or selling some property in this area, now there is another option for you to choose as you look into real estate companies!

Here, nature provides us with something you could call "natural privacy fences". In other words...trees.

If you thought that we were through with hot temperatures here in Deep East Texas for the year, think again.

So today, we're going to start off with this: One of the things that makes Deep East Texas great is...NO TOLL ROADS.

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.