She said his mom lived 5 minutes from the airport. I'd venture to say the house either isn't standing anymore or they were afraid of a short round taking them out.
But I seriously doubt they were on the street since she was talking as if they were communicating
Agreed.
Notice how the media is interviewing the American half of these evacuee families? The BBC did a story on two of them, and the Lebanese husband was nowhere to be found. One of them was supposedly stuck 12 miles from the Israeli border with small children, and moaning that they needed to be rescued. Good luck with that.
Maybe the hubbies were/are spending their vacations in a Hezbollah training camp?