4 PM Sunday Rita Update

Major grocery stores open in Deer Park and La Porte and Pasadena. Home Depot and Lowes open for home repair supplies. Around noon gas stations at HEB and WalMart as well as a Citgo opened.

Our house in La Porte still without power. Hot and humid - inside downstairs 86 F., upstairs 90 F. but breeze from windows open. Cats have been left there and are not too happy but busy catching up on sleep.

I made trips unloading refrigerators and freezers. Opening freezer to unload accelerates the warming process.

At Dad's house in La Porte have been cooking things like hamburger and chicken buffalo wings that became defrosted.