The riders followed FM 521 through Rosharon and luckily missed an afternoon thunderstorm that hit Hwy 288 at mid-day. "God blessed us," declared Alex Prince, a resident of Houston's Fifth Ward, president of the Southwest Trail Riders. There was a SNAFU, though. The Brazoria County Sheriff's Dept. provided no escort. Prince said letters were sent in advance and that the S.O. always provided an escort in the past, but said he was told sheriff's deputies had something else important they had to handle. Deputies and constable's officers in Fort Bend County provided an escort once the riders left Brazoria County.