PROVO, Utah -- Michael Reed had already called his grandmother twice and talking to her again was his first priority after practice.

The BYU wide receiver from Baytown, Texas, a city near Houston, was getting regular updates on Tropical Storm Edouard and whether his family would have to evacuate.

"I called my grandma last night and she said our lights were out for an hour and then I called her this morning and she said it was storming bad right now," Reed said. "She said it hadn't come to evacuation yet, but several of the news stations were giving a heads up and warnings."

Tropical Storm Edouard hit the Texas coast near Houston with 65 mile-per-hour winds, but the winds dropped to 35 mph when the storm moved inland.

Reed is one of two players on BYU who live in the Houston area. Linebacker David Nixon is from College Station, which is about 95 miles from Houston, and he said he didn't know a storm had hit.

"Did it really?" Nixon said. "I should probably call my mom."

Reed, who is cousins with Utah quarterback Brian Johnson, has been through an evacuation before. Three years ago this month, Reed was away at school when his family was evacuated after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.

"My grandmother and mom are all at home and I wish I could be there to do something," Reed said. "But if I was there, what could I do, you know? Besides help evacuate. Hopefully, things will work out and that weather will just go away."

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