I'm sorry to hear about your friend's home in Jackson being wiped out. I wasn't aware that anyone lost their home in Jackson except for the elderly lady in Belhaven who had a tree fall on her house. Please tell your friend to post the information about his missing brother and sister at www.clarionledger.com. I live in an area that is about 200 miles from the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. We had hurricane-force winds here, but no real damage other than some missing shingles and a few downed trees. I don't need to be evacuated.
Thank you Polly. I THINK its Jackson. He said 15 miles from Biloxi and near the beach - I've never been to Mississippi and don't know the area - and he expects that the hurricane wiped it out because he did see pictures of areas he recognized on the highways near his area. I'll give him the information.
We are assuming that since he can't contact anyone at the house and that they haven't contacted his brother in Chicago that its probably serious.