Hi,

A few hours before Ida's eye was to hit us, it jogged east enough
to miss us by enough to prevent from being trashed by it. As a result,
doing fine with a natural gas-powered standby generator that is
happily purring along. Sadly, thousands of other people did not fare
as well and now have a hard road to travel.

In Ida’s Grip, Louisiana Struggles to Assess the Damage
About a million customers were without power as a slow-moving
storm inundated the region, testing flood control.
[www.nytimes.com]

Live Updates: Ida reduces buildings to rubble and leaves hundreds
of thousands without power,
[www.cbsnews.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)