While WVU fans are fretting over whether the hurricane will cancel or postpone Saturday's North Carolina State football game in Raleigh, the Ahouse sisters, Mary “Kitty” Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968, and Sue Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971, are safely ensconced in Aruba, an island 15 miles off the coast of Venezuela and 1,400 miles from Florence’s fury.

Kitty reports:

“We are in Aruba and below hurricane zone, so we are fine. Just a little worried about flying into Newark Saturday, then me flying out of Newark Sunday to Pittsburgh.

“Best place I have ever been. Only thing hurricanes do here is suck the breeze away and makes it hotter but right now we have a great breeze.”

“Best place I have ever been” is saying a lot. The Ahouse sisters have traveled to Daytona Beach, Florida, New York City, Key West, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, artsy Sedona, Arizona, Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Mexico and dozens of states.

Brother Mike Ahouse, 1985 North Marion graduate, is a mailman out of the Worthington post office but living in Monongah where the late Byron Birdsell once delivered mail to the Olesky Church Street home long after I left town and before he became the postmaster in Rivesville so that he could be in charge of the mail to my sister, Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of 1955, who lives just off Paw Paw Creek.

Mike is no slouch either. He’s traveled to 46 states. Only Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon, North Dakota and South Dakota are left. And you can bet they are on Mike’s bucket list.

Only Kitty and Sue sailed in the Caribbean to Aruba.

Sue lives in Piscataway, New Jersey and Stoney Lonesome, Monongah; Kitty in Monongah; and Mike in Monongah, when he isn’t delivering the mail in Worthington.

Joyce Ahouse Blake, who joins them on some of the trips, is their cousin. Joyce is a Doddridge County High grad who lives in Salem. She is a widow.

Rick Morrison is a son of Kitty and former husband, Jim “Skip” Morrison, Class of 1965.

Ay, ay, ay, I’ve been to 56 countries and 44 states but the Ahouse siblings give me a run for my money.