[They arrived to open arms on Friday, Sept. 1.] Everybody is so good to us here, ... It's marvelous.

We have evacuated once this year already.

My brother put us up for two weeks and the kids started school the day after Labor Day.

Our charge is to review any recommendation they have, but then we are also to review funding sources. We have to maintain balance, and we don't want to be in the same situation pension funds in other big cities have found themselves.

They were letting people back in the day we left (Florida), but we didn't want to take the girls in there.

[Living near the Gulf Coast in Ocean Springs, Miss. Dorothy and her family was used to storms.] It happens quite often, ... usually within two days everything is back to normal.