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It's been a long day, but we made it home safe and sound. One of the kids noted as we pulled into Atlanta how odd it was to see a city intact - no great swaths of crumbled buildings split by trees or wet gooey junk piled up along the streets. We all take too much for granted. But you can't live your life frightened of instant destruction or second-guessing how you'd react if your life and the life our your community had been swept away. Life continues. Intact. For now.

We will continue to post experiences and feelings of our week in coastal Mississippi because it will take some time to sort out. We saw too much. We heard too much. It would be impossible to sum it all up neatly and sign off.

Photos and thoughts will fill this site for a while yet. I hope that what we tell and show here makes the impact of Hurricane Katrina more real to you. I think each of us - Lucas, Amanda, Ella, Robert, Peter, Noelle, and I - would encourage you to go down and see for yourself what happened last fall and what is happening now. There are so many ways to help. There is so much need.