Well we bugged out just in time.

[Texaswitchy]

Harris county went into lockdown.

Not surprised.

We left for the farm early this morning.

Just need to finish unpacking which will take awhile.

Feel better here two hundred acres to explore.

Cell phone service is good.


This is not my farm but a friends family farm.

Feel like I can breathe again.

Everyone take care and be safe.
.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. How lucky you are to have a place to go to, my dear Texaswitchy!

I hope it all will work out well for you and your friends.

[Texaswitchy]

2. I was getting buggy.

This lockdown is hard.

My nervous system could not have handled it .

Going fishing tomorrow.

[Mr.Bill]

3. I live in a resort/retirement area with a large lake.

The issue we are having is with us being about 100 miles north of San Francisco, people are fleeing the bay area and coming here to their vacation homes. The Director of Public Health has shut down all motels and all short term rentals like Air BnB. If you weren't already renting here on March 1st, you have to leave. All boat traffic on all waterways and recreational fishing is prohibited.

[GoneOffShore]

5. Same thing happened in Italy. And here in France.

There were signs that said 'Virus Parigo Home' - Parigo is slang for Parisians who have vacation homes in Bordeaux and had fled Paris before France really locked down.

[efhmc]

26. Heard on NPR that people are really upset that the outsiders are overlaoding their

health system. This was in Europe.

[Pobeka]

8. This happens over, and over in every epidemic/pandemic in history. Super spreaders of disease.

What's worse, the rich think they're safe, head out to the "remote" areas. For example Sun Valley Idaho. Now an outbreak is occuring there, probably carried in from LA or Seattle. I have read there is 1 ICU bed for the Sun Valley area.

[Mr.Bill]

18. We are a county of 60,000.

We have two hospitals with 25 beds each, but able to ramp up quickly to 100 each. Eleven ventilators in the entire county with five more that can be gotten from sister hospitals in their system.

My wife is a retired RN and she does quilting. She's organized a group, each working in their homes to make masks. These ladies, my wife included, are fabric hoarders. They could probably make thousands of masks. They've already made a few hundred for the local hospital.

My wife and I both are hospital volunteers but the hospital ran us out of the hospital a few weeks ago, so we are doing what we can from home.

[padfun]

11. Clear Lake?

n/t

[Mr.Bill]

19. Yes. Lake County. So far no positive tests here yet. About 50 have been tested, I think. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Thanks for that update.

I heard someone from the Oregon Coast having the same problem, an influx of people from the city.

Can't understand what they are thinking when they show up at a vacation spot....that they are the only ones who had the idea?
And maybe the virus too??

[Mr.Bill]

21. Well, honestly, for those that own vacation homes here

and are laid off from their jobs for now, I would be doing the same thing. The stores, while out of some items, are moderately well stocked, nobody's going crazy, everyone is pretty much acting decently and it's far more relaxing to be here than in a big city. It's why I live here. It's also cheaper to live here, but that doesn't make much difference when pretty much the only thing you can buy now is groceries.

No one is purposely coming here to spread the disease, of course, but with enough people coming it's inevitable.

[GoneOffShore]

4. Bonne chance et bon courage!

Stay well, stay safe.

It sounds like the US is going down the shitter.

[Texaswitchy]

14. You not kidding.

We will be the shit hole country.

[iluvtennis]

6. Enjoy the time on the farm and stay safe. nt

[Wounded Bear]

7. Sounds like a good place to hunker down and wait it out...

Hope you have plenty of supplies and the weather treats you right. Seeing some shit on Weather Channel going through Texas lately.

[Texaswitchy]

10. We have enough.

I started getting ready when.trump was.elected.

I knew some crap would happen.

Also for hurricanes.


Fresh fish tomorrow.

[customerserviceguy]

17. I've been reading your posts

they remind me of poetry in the pages of the New Yorker magazine, with the spacing.

[greenjar_01]

9. Lockdowns aren't really lockdowns

[Texaswitchy]

12. I needed out of Houston.

My friend needs to walk every day .

This was important.

[greenjar_01]

13. Fair enough

Just saying, you could have left at any time.

[Texaswitchy]

15. Not really.

Her son and family need to move into the house.

The timing had to be right.

They move in this weekend.

The kids need a yard.

Believe me I was more then ready to go.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. so helpful...

[Demovictory9]

22. sounds lovely

[StarryNite]

23. You're lucky!

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. Fort Bend too

Although my guess is that authorities were seeing way too many people not practising social distancing, whether it was teens out of school, parents taking their kids to playgrounds or RWNJs saying "Nobody tells me what to do" and hosting big barbeques, guns optional.

[Texaswitchy]

25. I know.

What happened to people being adults.

Kids yeah not adults.

I knew this was coming.

I am not going to die for these fools.

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. Well, I provide an "essential" service

so at least my job is secure.

[Gothmog]

28. Fort Bend is now under stay at home order also