We’re in the one of the counties in Florida that was hit by the tornados over night. We were on the opposite side of that county though, so we and our immediate relatives who live in the area are all doing okay.

We’re still waiting to here/get in touch with some friends who were on that side, but are hoping because they don’t live in mobile homes that they are relatively unscathed just perhaps without power. The problem is, of course, there are lots of people also trying to get in touch with their relatives and the phone system, especially as a lot of it in that area is probably damaged cannot handle it so we get the very stressful ‘all circuits are busy’ or ‘your call cannot be completed’ messages.

Hopefully this will help to ease people’s fears as we can’t get in touch with everyone.

The only dire thing that’s happened to us is that yesterday afternoon D’s car finally bit the dust. It’s been semi-lovingly and a bit grudgingly and with some ill will turned over to the tow companies junk shop as our apartment complex would have impounded it before we could have traded it in, or donated it to a workshop for students to learn on.