8:00 p.m. update

This evening things are looking up from a personal perspective even as the news continues to be bad. We bought a cell phone and have charged it so we can use it in an emergency. I spoke with Lonny Tibbetts, one of our instructors who is a contractor and he is coming over tomorrow morning early with some men to help us with the windows and hopefully with solutions to our lack of plywood and inability to do something about the upstairs window. I also spoke with our neighbors Keith and Kathleen (nice coincidence) who rode out Ivan here. They said that the structures are fine and the windows are fine (boarded up) but there will be flooding. They suggested moving our car on Sunday to higher ground and when they move theirs we will do same and carpool back. They also suggested getting Katie's bike from the college in case we have to be without a vehicle for a while either because of flooding or because there is no gasoline. They also have a good generator and 15 gallons of gasoline so our fears of using the generator without supervision can be set aside. They also said that the neighborhood basically watched after everyone post Ivan and that it would be the same. Based on what Lonny can do and our discussion with the neighbors we may ride it out here.

Tomorrow early we go to the college and get Katie's bike, then back here to meet Lonny and board up windows etc. Then we help our neighbors do their windows and batten down the hatches. Will do another update as information arises or by tomorrow mid morning.