Checking on Friends

I have been trying to contact friends that were impacted by Rita.

I found out that Keith from Lufkin is without power. They think it will be a week before he gets power restored. He has a generator and is trying to support 25 homes by taking it around to let them have power for their freezers for a few hours each day. He was in Baton Rouge from Sept 9th through the 20th working to help New Orleans after Katrina.

David & Beth - Got hold of David this morning at Incident Command in LA. He and Beth are fine. He doesn't know about his home or businesses in Abbeville. He arrived in Baton Rouge to help with Katrina on Tues. Sept 6th and was still there on Sept 17th. Beth said they planned to go home for 2 days to check on their daughter and then return to Baton Rouge on the 20th to work at the Incident Command Center. They are still at IC helping out. He said AR is sending several pilots but they are in need of some WMIRS input help. Our aircraft left this morning at 6 a.m. with 2 pilots headed to BTR or I would go back to help.

Faye in Lonoke said the tornado missed them. They got over 5 inches of rain and a few limbs down but no other damage.

Still trying to get Henry.