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spiff, thanks for your concern. i could not get any word from my son or others in Picayune so i started hurrying back from my vacation in calif on tuesday of last week. i arrived in picayune on friday. my son is ok except for a severe case of poison ivy from wrestling trees off his home. my neighborhood looks like a warzone with trees all over homes and powerlines all over the streets. but my home was spared except for some shingles blown off. i do have some pretty substantial damage to my barn.i got phone service back yesterday but the circuits are so busy that it is almost like having none. my dsl broadband is working however. don't know when we will get power back, looks like a huge job to restore it. shortages of everything here, especially gasoline and no diesel at all. walmart re-opened partially yesterday and said they expect to have fresh milk today and probably a load of cold-cuts tommorrow. we are getting plenty of ice and water but not nearly enough meals have been brought in. the line starts to form for them at daybreak (curfew is dusk to dawn) and if you don't get there real early, you miss out. we were lucky. i have a refrigerator in the motorhome and i stocked it well before i left texas.