Hurricane refugees...

Just a quick update, if you don't know already about 90% of our families live in and around New Orleans. In total that is about 30 family members. Well, five of them woke us up this morning by throwing sticks at our windows. We had invited them to come up earlier in the day but after boarding up their windows they thought they would ride out the storm. At around 4:30 yesterday afternoon they realized it was a good opportunity for them to get out of harms way and to pay us a visit, so they headed our way.

The thing was Leslie's ringer was off and we never got the message. So, this morning early I started hearing what I thought was rocks hitting the window. Being that we have no family or anyone hear that would feel comfortable throwing rocks at our windows, it kind of freaked me out for a minute. We are glad to have them here and safe. It took them 12 hours to do the normal 7 hour trip. The traffic was so bad that they were going 10 mph for about 5 hours, and that was with both sides of interstate traffic headed north all the way from Slidell to about 60 north of Hattiesburg MS.

We have not heard anything for family members that are down there. We have been trying to get in touch but all land lines and cell towers are down. It could be quite some time until they could get through. I am sure they are okay. We are most worried about Leslie's grandmother because she refused to leave New Orleans. She is a very strong and hard headed woman that is in her 80's, but we are sure she is fine. I hope I don't step on any toes with that last sentence.

Well, I need to get going we have a full house.