MOM AND DAD

My parents just got through on the phone! Dad is talking to Sa right now. He's saying they need water and a bunch of supplies. Good thing we just found out that the roads opened up going south. Sa is trying to convince Mom and Dad to come back to B'ham with us.

Jenny's Grandparents finally got phone service and called Jenny's mom to find out why nobody had come looking for them. We tried to explain that nobody had contact with their entire town, and that nobody could get in or out, so we didn't know what had happened to them and were more worried than they were.

Steve used a pay phone in New Orleans to call us yesterday! He was down by the Aquarium of the Americas. He had no idea that the MS Coast had been hit. He'd gone straight to New Orleans before the storm hit there when his Nat Gaurd unit was activated. It's so weird to think that I stood by that same payphone on July 4th watching fireworks and listening to a brass band. Now he's there surrounded by floodwaters and troops carrying machine guns!

We had been planning on checking out the damage at Jenny's apartment in Hattiesburg tomorrow morning, but it looks like we'll be going a little further south to Mom and Dad's instead. It will be good to see them. I hope that we can convince them to leave and come back with us until power and water are restored there. Wondering when I can try to salvage some things from my apartment. I am sick of wearing the same clothes day after day, but I don't want to buy new ones if I can salvage some of the ones in Gulfport.

Still no word on Christen. I put her name on all the missing persons lists that I could find online today. I am not going to give up hope!