I had moved to Houston a couple of months before that. We had boarded up and drove up to Huntsville and stayed at the Holiday Inn (at the time the storm size/track was ominous). That Friday morning, it was clear that Houston was out of danger. We went to the restaurant to get breakfast and it was full of Alabama State Troopers. As we checked out, the team managers were in the lobby and the equipment vans were in the parking lot. We learned the game was cancelled when we got home.
That Saturday they interviewed Jackie Sherrill from the pressbox at Kyle Field, with a blue sky as a backdrop. He was not happy.
