We are out of town for an evacuation and I some how managed to track down my 19 year old son to take along with us to keep him safe. Well all that worked out great in the end. But now here we are after a 10 hour drive to get to Tyler TX, we spend one night in a hotel not far from here. Ashley picked up Molly and Busta and they are doing wonderful. After one night in that hotel we had to transfer to another for out week long stay at another hotel. We arrived today and has a little party due to the hurricane weakening and we seem to have faired very well according to neighbors that have stayed behind. We were able to talk to them this afternoon and they had gone and checked our house after the eye had passed through and said that we had some tree lymbs down but no major damage to our home other than chingles which we expected. The other thing was that we have no power which we expected too.

So al in all we came out of this in a wonderful way!!!!!! It was suppose to be so much worse. Thank god it was not!!!

So not that all sems to be over, We are now awaiting updates as to "when" we can return to home which we hope to find out tomorrow. Things depend on what happens to the storm now that it has passed our home with minimal damage as we know of it for now. We will have to deal will with impassable roads all the way there so much of our return will be relied on "our" local news for updates.

But now as I am sitting here typing this, I have just come in my room were my husband and Kasey are sleeping, other family members are all along the same floor in a row with us. Well my 19 year old son decided to disappear tonight. I have walked this parking lot and the surrounding wooded area and he is no were to be found. It has been a few hours since anyone has seen him last. I had paid for a room to put all of my kids in one room in the middle of everyone else and they are complaining that they want to go to bed but Tyler is missing and they do not want to stay up and wait for him. Well I have been sitting outside for over an hour and doing some searching along the way. I can't find him and he has not returned to any of the five rooms that we have.

It is now almost 1:00 am, do I continue to sit outside and wait? or should I just go to bed and wait for him to knock? We are all very tired after the last few days and are all ready to crash and burn now that we are all settled into a hotel that we will be staying in for a few days. Not like we drive for 10 hours and then have to get up early and put everything back into the car and move to another hotel just to unpack and get settled in all over again.

I/we are so frustrated tonight that my 19 year old would just take off like he did. No one wants to sleep with their door unlocked in a strange place. So this is why I am still up and debating on what the heck I am going to do. I mean, I need to get some sleep!!!!

If hes 19 hes an adult. .But still I would be worried. Especially if he is not familar with the area. I hope everything works out and your son  comes back to the hotel where you guys are staying.

 .  Did your son not take the key to his room when he left? If not maybe when he comes back he can go down to the front desk and they will give him a key so he can get in. 

No he should not have just taken off like that with out at least letting someone know. That would be the right thing to do. Do you think maybe he would try to go back to your home?  Does he drive? Is there anyway he could rent a car and drive back to LA?  I sure hope everything turns out okay.

This may sound silly, but with so many people traveling togather, are you sure he made it to the new hotel? I mean, there is not a chance he got left at the other one? Do you know who he rode with? Was it you? You know, kinda like "Home Alone", movie?