All safe here in my neighborhood, and almost all safe in the town. But everyone with a basement has lost everything that was down there, and are having to gut their basements, removing everything including the drywall. Mold is a huge concern. If there is a silver lining in a disaster like this one, it's that people really do band together. On our street we've been having dinners and showering and doing laundry at the houses of the less affected. Fortunately I'm one of those. On Monday I made dinner for 16, pretty much on the spur of the moment. A fast day, and though I ate a good sized dinner, I skipped breakfast and lunch, and ended up feeling like I'd done a pretty good job. Am accepting congratulations 
