Katrina Survivors

I'm not sure anybody reads this anymore and that's my fault. I've been busier than a one armed paper hanger. For some reason this system won't let me upload pictures and I've used that as an excuse to not put out anything. Some of you might have heard we had a little inclement weather down here. I was in Trinidad working for BP and flew home on the 28th. Well I didn't actually make it home. The New Orleans airport closed as I landed in Houston but I had called Katie and told her to pack up the kids and meet me in Houston. We spent three days there and then spent a night in Lafayette. The next day Katie and I and my friend Pat Jefferies drove into Madisonville not knowing what to expect. We hit the lottery at our house. Nothing landed on the house, shop or vehicles. I was walking around telling everyone that my boat cover didn't even blow off. Then I found out my good friends Ben Begley and Martha Bateman had come by to check the house and wrestled the cover back on. Many thanks to them. Madisonville is about twenty miles to the west of the eye but the damage was still pretty extensive. We were fortunate to get power restored yesterday. A lot of people are going to be waiting weeks and in some cases months. At least the ones that still have homes. I heard on the news that this is the largest migration of people in our history. I'm still having a hard time getting my mind around that. Phone service is spotty at best. We get more calls in than we're able to get out. So feel free to call. Ive got to get back to my yardwork. I've hauled twenty pickup loads of debris to the burnpile and haven't even finished the front yard. But we still feel like we hit the lottery!