More Good News

I finally managed to reach Goodie this morning. She can receive calls on her home phone but not her cell and can't call out on either one. It's very odd. Needless to say, she was very glad I was finally able to get through to her. She and Jim got home Friday night to minimal wind and rain damage and no break-in, so they feel incredibly lucky. Of course there is a lot of debris and trees down so they and their neighbors have all been cleaning all of that up, but they have electricity and everything they really need. And incredibly, even the parish where she teaches, a few minutes closer to New Orleans, which floods, according to her daughter Sarah, "when you spit," wasn't hit that hard, either. So her school is looking at trying to get started by next week, the 12th. As for the travesty that is New Orleans and the bungled relief effort.....