Here's an excerpt from an email I got today. They are in Boone, NC back with our other relatives for the moment:

( Post Katrina Update )

-- Hurricane Rita reaches Category 5 status with maximum sustained ( Read more... )

The newspaper that she works for: The Sun Herald, has set up temporary housing for their employees.

http://www.kri.com/press/biloxi/photos3.html

They have left their doggie in North Carolina with the relatives as she's become one of their pack of whippets! (She's a cairn

-- Owners of flooded St. Rita's Nursing Home charged with 34 counts of
homicide, Louisiana attorney general says.

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Someone on another board that I'm on posted the link to this story.... about what happened to some patients in some hospitals during/after Katrina ( Read more... )

It shows how much of your major city would be under water if a similar flood hit of the same size as Katrina ( Read more... )

-- AP: Mike Brown says he has resigned as director of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Got an email yesterday that my Aunt & Uncle are heading back to Mississippi and leaving Boone, NC and my other relatives. My Aunt works in ad sales for the Sun Herald, and her boss has been hassling her for over a week to come back. Apparently he has arranged a bunch of RV's and travel trailers for his staff to live in while things get back ( Read more... )

-- FEMA director Michael Brown being sent back to ( Read more... )

Poor little doggie holding a vigil for several days near the body of its owner. :(

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/US/09/08/katrina.impact/story.dog.vigil.jpg

So sad! Poor Doggie!