October 2017 www.womanthismonth.com PEOPLE | interview 46 What brought you to Bahrain, how did you spend your time here? My husband, John Hague, is an SVP for Aspen Technologies, Inc. He came to set up MENA for the company. I had a weekly game of mahjong with friends and would donate to Tony the Dogfather. Otherwise, we travelled a great deal and enjoyed time with our friends. Whereabouts in Texas did you settle? We returned to the area we lived in prior to moving, Katy, TX, a suburb of Houston. Texas is our home state and we raised three children here. When did you first hear that Harvey was coming and what preparations did you make? We watched the movement of the tropical storm for a few weeks. We stocked up on water, food that doesn't need refrigeration, ice, plenty of batteries for flashlights and Linda Brown-Hague lived in Bahrain for five years before heading back to the US in October 2015 to set up home in a suburb of Houston, Texas. She shares her experience of the devastating Hurricane Harvey. High and Dry in Houston radio as well as keeping the cars filled with petrol. We had previously lived through hurricanes Rita and Ike. What was your experience of Harvey? You start off feeling prepared and know you are as prepared as you can be. We happened to have our friends Mark and Diana Hardaker visiting from Bahrain. They were in the US for the eclipse and making stops to visit their friends that lived in the States. They arrived on Thursday and, when the rain started on Friday, Mark asked what I thought he should do. I told him I believed he should leave and go early to their next stop in Delaware. They were able to get a flight out of Houston scheduled for Saturday morning. On the way to the airport the warning came out that one of the exits to the airport was flooded but we had another route to get there. But Mark and Diana were then given notice that their flight was cancelled. We continued on to the airport and they rented a car and were able to drive to Dallas and get a flight from Dallas to their friends in Delaware. When we arrived back to our house and John and Linda in Bahrain
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