Thanks for the encouragement. About the vulnerability, despite everything else, its a natural reaction for me to be sympathic and helpful when someone close to me is hurting. Seems that I've received a lot of extra long hugs from my W over the past two days, "just because".
I am so sorry about your home disaster and glad on one was hurt. I do hope that things are taking shape for the restoration. I'm sure that there will be a light at the end of that tunnel very soon.
I can relate to your difficulties with a home disaster and the insurance companies at a time like that. We are located in what became ground zero for last year's hurricane season. Hurricane Charlie, Francis and Jeanne had all really unleashed their power on this area. Charlie was the worst for us. The storm hit our home late that Friday evening (the 13th!). I had been attending a conference that week in San Diego and couldn't get a early flight back home ahead of the storm. So, the only help I could offer my W and D10 was to talk to them while the storm ripped through our neighborhood was over the cell phone, while they were huddled in a closet in the safest part of the house. I talked to them once after the storm has passed and I knew that they were alright. Then after that nothing, the cell quit working. I felt totally helpless a thousand miles away. It took me days to make my way home and I spent several of them sleeping in the Denver airport.
There was no structural damage but trees down and the roof was peeled down the plywood in many areas. The next few weeks has us dodging the other two storms. After that we lived with a blue tarp roof for many, many months. I still occasionally find a piece of roofing shingle while out working in the yard. I now look back at all that happend and think how blessed we are for enduring that and how it brought everyone, my family, my friends and even my neighbors all closer together.
Hang in there, it will get better.
Snook.
"And wrinkles only go where the smiles have been." J. Buffett
