vicki is fine, piglet is fine, patrick and teresa are fine, nick and cat are fine, seth is fine, elissaann is fine, helen and harry and brigid are fine, cousin john is fine. rose's liam is still missing but presumed okay at this point.

jules is on vacation, so she wasn't working, sigrid had just started her days off for the week so she wasn't working either.

the newspaper websites are starting to have partial lists of the dead. i have been reading them. the only thing that i can do for the dead is to know who they were, it seems.

for the living, i'm trying to figure out if i can donate blood or not, and if there's anything else i can do.