We live in Buna Texas We evacuated and came back that evening after Rita hi,It was horrible,We could not believe the destruction,Trees were down everywhere on homes so many homes were destroyed,We were thankful how the whole community pulled together and helped each other,I don\'t believe anyone will ever forget Rita for a long time,I\'m thankful for Bunas Fire Dept,Forestryand mainly the Marines our thanks go out to them they stayed here the whole time we were without electricty,They were stationed at First Baptist Church in parking lothanding out water,ice and food I\'ve never waited so long for any of this we were in lines driving thru for hours, without gas we used our 4 wheelers to go there and back and we finally got gas coming in to some of the stores they used generators to pump the gas out,we waited in lines up to 6 hours, we really were blessed there is still homes without roofs blue tarps on roofs its said to see the people that can\'t get help especially the older ones that have no insurance like my parents, Fema turned them down but yet you have people that live in other states and came back and filed and got it these were say in their forties, whats wrong with this picture? But just the same we survived the Lord watched us and we have our lifes,when we came ddown 96 South of Buna it wasterrible we live off Hwy 1004 and we turned down that road it was like a pig trail,we lost all but two trees down our roof was put back on about 4 weeks after Rita thanks to State Farm which I think did GREAT jOB,had a lot of damageBuna was hit hard so was South East texas our surrounding towns, but all you hear about is KAtrina thats all you still hear on the news well guess what thier not the only ones who lost homes we lost alot too! But we survived and getting on with our lifes and blessed, theres jobs to be had aaround here aot of families left and never came back \'cause they have nothing to come home to my heart goes out to them we lost alot but we survived,and thankful to have whaat we have I wish others could have seen the other towns beside Beaumont there was more distruction in all of Southeats Texas ppeople are still living in tents up around the rivers where the hurricane took its path needless to say we have no trees left standing except the ones up rooted on the ground that Fema would\'nt pick up because they were to big so my husband is still chopping at them with his ax we have no way to move them Hey any one out there need fire wood just pick up the phone and call Buna bet you could get any type of wood FREE can you belive that (lol) thats all we can do is laugh or stay stressed out,no serious the Lord has opened alot Of eyes and were are blessed with what we have, I believe there was all kinds of heroes every where you lookwe where without eletricty along time hot yes hot it was and talking about the ole\' days i pulled out my granny\'s ole scrub bourd and tub and washed clothes and hung them out Thank the Lord for washer and dryers that got old really fast but we had to have clean clothes we learned to have lots and lots of patience. Thanks Debbie