Commute

This morning on the way to the bus stop, I noticed several motorcycle police giving some line of vehicles an escort. at first I thought it funny for a funeral to be headed west on that part of Westheimer. As they passed, the vehicles were obviously military. Humvees, Heavy trucks, those bend in the middle off-road trucks and more Humvees. They almost looked funny because they all had the European paint scheme, dark gray, as apposed to the desert paint scheme seen in the middle east. I stopped and just watched them pass. I waited until they were gone before continuing. I felt like it was what I should do out of respect. I probably would not have done it for a funeral.

The cops were doing the typical leap-frog block the intersection and let the trucks pass thing that cops on bikes do when escorting. It seemed like the trucks were in a hurry. The whole effort must have been planned in advance. I've not seen the place the military vehicles come from, but Nat tells me there are routinely convoys running around.

Several minutes after the convoy went by, the six or so motorcycles all came back east in a group. It was impressive. They still had their blue lights on. I assume they were Harris county. I could be wrong.

The walk in was very muddy as well. The hurricane didn't do much damage, but id did drop some rain. The area of construction I pass where they are putting up a much needed apartment complex is not quite under water. Lets just say it is sticky. The boots and walking stick carry separate clumps of heavy dense mud. I have a pare of shoos at work I change in to. There was to be more rain this evening, but I didn't notice any heavy stuff. Just a couple of scary clouds that floated by.

On the walk home, there were several police cars turning off Westheimer and nearly causing a bunch of wrecks. Someone nearly ran me down trying to get out of one of the cop's way.