At first, they were headed to Texas, but the highways were jammed. So they turned around and headed toward the hurricane and kept driving, which was a good thing or they would have been stranded in New Orleans. |
I cried when I saw them at the airport. It felt like I was in a third-world country. They had dirty T-shirts, shorts and sandals -- the same clothes they wore when the fled from the hurricane. |
My ordeal began when I couldn't locate my grandkids for almost a week after the hurricane devastated the Gulf Coast. |