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All my ex-inlaws live right on the coast. My son's mother lives on
Ocean Springs which is the other side of Biloxi Bay from Biloxi itself.
I finally heard from her. She rode it out at her mother's house in
Grand Bay, Alabama. The land lines were still out, but she finally go
through on her mom's cell phone. Her mom's house was only 2.5 miles
from the Gulf, but her elevation was 77 feet, so they didn't get hit
with the storm surge. My ex father-in-law's house is less than half
mile from the Gulf just east of Pascagoula. His house shows to be at 7
feet elevation, so we can pretty well assume that it was inundated. The
ex's house is at 17 feet elevation and 2.5 miles from the coast, and
the surge was 30 feet there. Not much hope that her house made it
through unscathed either. Her sister works at one of the casinos in
Biloxi that was not floating on the water, but that didn't matter much.
She said it will be a LONG time before she will be going back to work.
The ex works on the air force base (Keesler) in Biloxi as a contractor
for Northrup Grumman. Most of the base infrastructure is damaged, and
she is sure that all their computer equipment is gone or destroyed, so
she has no idea when or if she will be going back to work. The bridges are out between where she is and her houses, and the authorities will not let anyone back into the area. In the mean time, they are going to have to worry about things like how they are going to get food and water. You know, the basic essentials. I am glad I dragged my feet and didn't move down there when she wanted me to, and glad my son told her he wanted to stay up her another year, otherwise we would be down there handling this stuff. By the way, on our web site under Caching Info are two links on tips on hiding caches that were done by Dave (drat19). He lives in Biloxi, so if any of you are into prayer, you might want to mention him too. Mike Griffin wrote: **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field |
