Thank you for your prayers. We are hoping/praying they decided to leave at the last moment and just didn't call anyone thinking they could make it to Baton Rouge - but got hung up somewhere. Any kind of phone service in that area is dead.
After 9/11, my family designated a "meeting place," should there ever forward be a situation of tragedy in which we either lose communication with one another, or quickly need to be all together for any reason.