The update on my grandfather is that FEMA got to his nursing home but couldn’t get into the apartments where he lived. There was about three feet of water left. The guy said he had heard from someone who was near there during the storm who claimed to have gotten the 6 residents who stayed (including my grandpa and his wife) to the third floor before the storm hit. They now believe they may have been evacuated to a hospital in Baton Rouge.
Of course I am pissed off at him for staying, but there’s hope that he’s alive. As always, I want to thank my friends who have IM’d and I also want to thank my friend Brandi who went over and above the call of duty by tracking down numbers for hospitals.
Right now I’m typing from bed. Well my new bed. When we moved up here my parents found out that my dad needed to sleep in a hospital bed. So they put their brand new queen sized bed in storage and have slept in separate beds since then. When I was going to buy a queen sized, my mom told me to take the one in storage.
It’s taken about a month for us to find the time to move the bed up here. Tonight we were sitting around waiting for news on my Grandpa so we had the time and now I’m sitting in bed (I rest my keyboard on a TV tray), tomorrow I’ll find another project to occupy my time while we wait for more word.
On that note,
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