A family forced to flee their home because of Hurricane Rita have been told they can go back to Houston on Tuesday, however, were also told not to expect electricity until Friday.

Catherine Robinson, who has family in Bermuda, helped frantic mother Jean La Montagne find her two boys by offering her a place to stay while she looked in shelters in Texas for her boys.

Now an evacuee herself, Mrs. Robinson thanked the Bermudians who had called her this weekend to make sure she was safe.

"The Bermudians were so concerned. Jean called me and it was so wonderful," Mrs. Robinson said yesterday. "I think you are all super people. Little did I know I would be an evacuee like her sons."

Mrs. Robinson has a niece, nephew and sister-in-law on the Island, Rose Vickers and David and Shanea Strong.

And she was thankful her house was not damaged by the category three hurricane which came ashore 80 miles away from it on the Texas / Louisiana border early Saturday morning.

"Everything is good, we did reach our destination in 15 and-a-half hours," Mrs. Robinson said.

She and her husband James arrived in Texarkana, Texas in northeast Texas late on Saturday, however, was only affected by a little rain from the giant Hurricane Rita.

They spoke to on Thursday as they were stuck in a 100-mile traffic jam on a stretch of highway with no fuel and little food and water.

"At most gas stations, people could not get gas and people lined up for two to three hour just to get it," she said yesterday.

But the US Government responded quickly and replenished the empty tanks of cars stranded on the side of the highway, she said.

The city has been split into different zones, each with a different return date.

Her home is in "Zone D" which was not scheduled to return until tomorrow however, a dam had overflowed on the road upon which they were planning to return home so they were afraid they would have to re-route and go back via Dallas, she said.

"We are very, very tired. My son made it halfway home, 150 miles from where we stay and it took him 22 hours. He had his three little girls with him," she said. "People are very tired but people have been so kind and nice. All we had to do was show our drivers licence's to show we were from Houston and they gave us food at Walmart. They were giving out free stuff to help the evacuees."

Undeterred to be living in the new age of evacuations, she said ? "If it rains again we will have to leave again, but this time we will leave earlier."