As the heavy rains on Sunday and drizzles and cloudy weather stall the NSU baseball team, here's one more story related to travel in East Texas amidst Sunday's vicious storms.
Lady Demon volleyball head coach Brittany Uffelman was returning from Houston Sunday afternoon and was caught in the flooding east of Houston. Incredibly, in the same traffic jam on a pine-tree lined flat stretch of Texas 103 was Lady Demon basketball point guard Tweet Williams and a few more cars with NSU students -- all returning from spring break.
The flood waters were fast moving and daunting, Uffelman said. The word was that a dam near San Augustine burst, resulting in a lot of the trouble, she said.
Ever the resourceful one, she leaned on one of NSU's great friends, the Super Trooper, Louisiana State Policeman Steve Pezant. He was working back on the east side of Toledo Bend as the wicked weather attacked Sabine and Natchitoches parishes, but he was able to give Coach B and her friends some driving tips.
Getting a cell phone signal in the East Texas piney woods was no small feat, she said, but she got one bar in one spot, enough to dial up Pezant. Authorities along the highway were directing folks south toward Jasper, but Pezant recommended trying some smaller roads for a shorter trip back, and the strategy saved some time for the NSU crew.
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