You could see the high-water mark on the side of the house. Anne Marie went to look at it and came back to the car in tears.

How do you get parents to pay for their child to come study in a city that was so badly damaged?

I talked to an Episcopal priest who said everyone's lost something. We're all in grief together. To try to compare one loss with another is not a useful activity.

By the end of our time here, saying goodbye, Lynn and I were clinging together, crying. It was a horrible thing that happened, this hurricane, but something good came out of it. We got to spend time with a near-and-dear family.