3:00 p.m. update

Its encouraging that in 24 hours this will all be over one way or the other. The news continues to be a southward drift of the eye. Lets all pray that continues.

We have truly seen the best in people in the last three days as our neighbors and friends have banded together. It started on Thursday when a small but concerted group of people got an entire college wrapped up and moved into three rooms. It continued on Friday with a donation of 46 pieces of plywood to cover all the windows when there was no way the college could afford to purchase it or the labor that followed. We saw it yesterday in Lonny and his men riding to our rescue when we had no idea how to put up the plywood at our place and didn't have enough anyway. We have seen it in our neighbors Keith and Kathleen who told us where to move our car, who drove us to get gasoline and additional groceries today when we were vehicle less and we see it in every place where people are banding together to help each other get ready.

If there is one thing that has made us totally at peace with our decision to come to Cayman and work at ICCI it is the way everyone on this Island has banded together to help each other get through this. What an extraordinary thing to see. It is as strong a reminder as we could get that community is very important here and that the decision to come here was the right one.

Windy now but no rain. We have put all the furniture on cans and will post pictures later if possible. We are eating lunch late. Everything is upstairs and the very final preparations are all that is left and those wont happen until late tonight. We love you all.

Scott and Katie