Houston Chronicle:
Amid the glamour of big money and adulation from the masses, it's easy to forget that professional athletes aren't immune to the hardships of life.Spending Hurricane Rita Watch on the road with the Astros, you couldn't help but feel the tension every other Houstonian away from home felt while watching loved ones try to flee the city.
The players' wives, children and parents were stuck in the same bottleneck traffic, the same busy airports and the same gripping fear of the unknown. In Pittsburgh on Wednesday and Thursday and in Chicago on Friday into Saturday, the Astros couldn't overcome the frustration of trying to call home, only to hear for the 1,000th time — "All circuits are busy!"
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For Morgan Ensberg, solace was knowing that former Astros reliever Scott Line-
brink's wife offered refuge to his wife, Christi, at the Linebrinks' home in Round Rock.Brad Lidge called on two people from his Astros past. The first call went to pitcher Jeriome Robertson, whose wife offered refuge to Lidge's wife, child and dog.
But as many Houstonians found out, Lindsay Lidge didn't have much luck driving out of town. Lindsay and Avery Lidge then got a hand from the family of Class AAA Round Rock player Royce Huffman.
Fourteen hours after she left home, Lindsay Lidge was in Brenham. She was running out of gas and the car was overheating — not ideal circumstances for anybody, much less a 10-month-old baby and a scared woman.
That's when she called Haley Huffman, Royce's wife. Haley told her father in-law, Royce Huffman Sr., of Lindsay's predicament. A family friend of the Huffmans secured a plane, which was flown to Brenham to pick up Lindsay and her daughter for the trip to Dallas.
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