CRAWFORD Flakes of white fell quietly on the prairie as black-clad youths danced in the mud. Nobody could remember a time when Texas was snowed in for Easter. But it happened in 2007.

In the summers of 2004, 2005, and 2006, Crawford was practically hell; or at least purgatory. Thousands of Bush supporters, near constant harassment from the locals, overbearing temperatures, and, to them, The Devil Himself living right next door