I’ll be praying for your friends.
What they said about the checkpoints and the strange feeling was a lot how I expressed coming back home after the wildfires in October. I left with flames about 15 feet on the west of my house and just a bit further on two other sides and was one of the blessed ones that God so graciously spared losing everything.
The first several weeks were just so surreal, but the first night or two is almost impossible to convey. Looking around and it being utterly silent and completely dark for as far as you could see and seeing only destruction in the day time. Definitely an unsettling feeling, evenwhile feeling so blessed.
Thanks for your prayers on behalf of my friends. So far they are fine. They are talking about how fungus can set in with all these floods and concerned about rats, snakes, etc..
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