Stormy St. Louie

Just a quick post to say we are among the half million customers in St. Louis with no electricity (61% in my zip code are unplugged) and no good indication of when it will return--they say 3-5 days. Blog posts may be scarce for a bit.

Our storm is obviously nowhere near the disaster that our Louisiana & Mississippi neighbors faced (and still face) from Katrina. Yet it is absolutely stunning to see how one quickly building, relatively small storm can pretty much shut down a city.

My daughter's Montessori was closed, my son's high school summer school was closed. Many stores and business are shut down.

Trees down everywhere, sirens sounding constantly, ice pretty hard to find. Temps well over 100 (113 with the heat index today).

Prayers needed for the elderly and young because some won't have made it through this brutally hot day. And for the workers trying to untangle trees from live wires have a terrifying and monumental task ahead.

My gratitude and appreciation mounts for all the fire, police and rescue workers as well as utility and city workers who are trying to put all the pieces together to keep everyone safe. It's no small thing.