Respects and prayers for your extended family in Ukraine. As you have family there, can you tell us, are you still in direct contact, can you still phone or text? Just wondering if the comm infrastructure still exists and if you get reports beyond the minimal number of reports that we see repeated all day long on the major media stations.
We are still in communication with most of the family and friends in the Ukraine. The most concerning exception is an area just northeast of Kiev where a friend’s elderly mom was in a damaged apartment building all alone on her floor. We finally got word that she was now at another friend’s apartment. The good thing about modern switching equipment is that is automatically reroutes communications around legs that are out. We have a young nephew who left Kharkov and traveled to L’viv and he is still able to sign-in and do work remotely. We have a cousin who still lives in Alchevsk, near Lugansk, in the Donbas, where the situation with water and electricity was already very bad under the “People’s Republic” administration. They get tap water two afternoons per week on a schedule. It is a chemical plant and steel mill town that is failing because the two giant operations are not producing (it is impressive to view the industrial area on Google Earth). Thank you for the prayers. Many prayers have been answered.