My nephew (really, my step-nephew ) has made it to Dallas from NO and should be boarding a plane right about now to get to his mother in Washington! Yippee! I'm so relieved! He had a hard time getting out of NO (not as hard as some, though), and ended up with nothing more than the clothes he was wearing. But the family is pulling together to re-outfit him for work. He's lucky in another respect, in that the company he works for has promised to put all of their displaced employees to work in one or another of their locations nation-wide. Whew! Things could be so much worse.
And now, someone please tell me why *my* phone isn't working when I'm nowhere near the hurricane??? ;) I'm lucky that my DSL is working, though I can't understand why, since the phone isn't and they use the same lines.... At least the phone company is forwarding my calls to my cell phone, largely because we've been waiting for word of my nephew. As I said, things could be lots worse. :)