For the longest time we couldn't tell what was going on (without electricity). We had no information coming in at all, |
I'd say in the past week things have felt like they're getting back to normal. We don't have street lights yet, but you get used to dealing with it by now, ... When you hear about the Gulf Coast, it just breaks your heart. It makes you feel lucky compared to the Gulf Coast, which was completely wiped off the map. |
Our main concern for us is that the way we live is through our business. We need it to move on, |
The thing that struck me the most about the situation was that if we had been about a mile and a half to the west of my house, we'd be in the eye of the hurricane, |
There are a lot of people here that lost their homes. We were lucky and spared, but every day you go to work, there are a lot of people without homes, without cars, |
We did have a tree snap that hit our house and knocked a few shingles and tore our gutter down, but I wouldn't consider that damage, relatively speaking, |