It's a Texan thing y'all
What is it to be a Texan? No, it's not because you simply live here. It is a set of values and guiding principals that led to the creation of this great state. Let me give you a couple of examples.
Friday morning at 1:00 a.m., the only grocery store in San Saba, Lowes, caught fire. At 7:00 a.m., the fire was still burning and firefighters from multiple towns were still fighting the blaze, despite the fact that ammunition and propane tanks were exploding.
Brad Williams and other members of Hunters for Heroes put together a group of people and trucks and headed to Austin to purchase supplies for the residents of San Saba. By the time the fire was extinguished the building was a total loss.
Saturday morning, the Lowes management team arrived from Lubbock to assess the damage. Albert Stowell and Kay Smith Stowell who had just purchased a building on the square offered their building to Lowes and on a hand shake, sealed a 2-year lease while the other building could be reconstructed.
Lubbock based Sanders Mechanical put a crew together, drove through the night and arrived at the new building Sunday morning and began construction. Monday, San Saba Utility department placed a new power pole, 600 amp, 3 phase, electric service into the building along with new sewer and water.
Store racks arrived, telephone and Internet contractors from around Texas arrived, and electricians brought in rolls of new cable. And as night settled in, the contractors continued to reconfigure a vacant space into a new grocery store. Products are already being staged and are scheduled to begin arriving on Wednesday.
The official opening of the new store is scheduled for Saturday morning, March 28 - one week and one day after total destruction.
That's what Texans do.
--author unknown
Friday morning at 1:00 a.m., the only grocery store in San Saba, Lowes, caught fire. At 7:00 a.m., the fire was still burning and firefighters from multiple towns were still fighting the blaze, despite the fact that ammunition and propane tanks were exploding.
Brad Williams and other members of Hunters for Heroes put together a group of people and trucks and headed to Austin to purchase supplies for the residents of San Saba. By the time the fire was extinguished the building was a total loss.
Saturday morning, the Lowes management team arrived from Lubbock to assess the damage. Albert Stowell and Kay Smith Stowell who had just purchased a building on the square offered their building to Lowes and on a hand shake, sealed a 2-year lease while the other building could be reconstructed.
Lubbock based Sanders Mechanical put a crew together, drove through the night and arrived at the new building Sunday morning and began construction. Monday, San Saba Utility department placed a new power pole, 600 amp, 3 phase, electric service into the building along with new sewer and water.
Store racks arrived, telephone and Internet contractors from around Texas arrived, and electricians brought in rolls of new cable. And as night settled in, the contractors continued to reconfigure a vacant space into a new grocery store. Products are already being staged and are scheduled to begin arriving on Wednesday.
The official opening of the new store is scheduled for Saturday morning, March 28 - one week and one day after total destruction.
That's what Texans do.
--author unknown
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