My best friend from childhood lives in Ponchatoula.
He's been working up in Pennsylvania since before the storm, but was supervising construction at SE Louisiana State in Hammond prior to that.
His wife & kids were fine - evacuated to Opelousas during the storm.
They had no damage to their place in Ponchatoula.
That's good to hear. I lived in Ponchatoula while I was going to SLU. I loved that town. The Strawberry Festival was like going back in time . . . I guess the strawberry crop will be ruined. Oh, no. You know how suddenly you reach another level of realization . . . I just did.