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Last night around 8:30pm I called our house in New Orleans and after the fourth ring, our answering machine picked up. We had power!

I immediately called Steve and he confirmed later that we did indeed have power. If it had not been so late, I would have packed up and driven home last night, but I waited until this morning. The ride home took me 3 1/2 hours, much better than the ten hour ordeal I experienced several days ago.

On my return home I listened to the various news shows on the radio. I heard a few returning residents refer to this evacuation as a "false alarm." That statement suggests that a much larger number of people will stay for the next storm threat. That would not be good.

Steve read this blog when he was finally able to and one of the comments he made was, "I'm glad it isn't as exciting a read as the last one." It wasn't meant as an insult. He was referring to the blog I kept during our evacuation for Katrina three years ago. I had to agree with him. I'm glad this one will come to a close much sooner and with much better results.

It is good to be back home.

(This will be my last post. After a while, I will remove the contents of this blog.)