<p>I’m out of the country for a few weeks, but trying to check up on folks I know. Did you have any damage?
Ross & Lindsey</p>
<p>I pm’ed Simba a day before (Friday) the hurricane. He said he planned to evacuate to College Station, Texas. He did. When he came back he pm-ed me about no significant damage etc. But he said he was stuck in traffic for hours. He said he is ok and back.</p>
<p>Thanks for the update, Achat. I had not realized that Simba had been in the path of Rita. I just talked to a young colleague of mine who is from NOLA and whose grandmother was evacuated to Houston. It has been a real anxious time for her, being so far away and unable to really help. Luckily the grandmother is fine.</p>
<p>ros, marite, achat thanks for the concerns. We are fine, and no we were not stuck in the traffic. On Thu. we tried, but could not get out of our neighborhood. We tried again on Friday to College station (75 miles) and the traffic was less than normal - we made it in 1.5 hrs door to door.</p>
<p>From College station we left Saturday morning, the traffic was heavy - it took us 2 hrs. There was not a drop of rain, except for few tree limbs and some tall plants everything was normal. After we came back, we lost power for about 3 hrs.</p>
<p>But, it was an emotional roller-coaster ride. Only a week ago we had come back from NJ. We did not have time to miss our son. But, now the departure has sunk in and we DO miss him a lot. He has a wonderful roommate and they seem to like each other. The room is pretty decent - was rennovated last year. He is in basement so the cell phones don’t work. He has joined the wind ensemble, but says that high school band was more fun and interesting. </p>
<p>His food (milk) allergies are fine, it seems that now there are many kids who have them and the dinning service makes every effort to have something for those kids. We had two meals in the cafeteria and we thought it was pretty decent.</p>
<p>We have begun to watch TV now !!!</p>
<p>BTW:</p>
<p>bandit, and marite: how are the kids doing at H ?</p>
<p>Simba - BTW, D is v. happy at Princeton so far too. Her only academic concern was that her math teacher is not as good as the one she had senior year for AP Calculus! But I think that’s because the advisor really encouraged her to take Multivariate Calculus instead of Advanced Multivariate, even though AP scores and SATs would have put her in the higher class. They seem to want to err on the side of caution for the kids’ first semester course load.</p>
<p>She’s even enjoying Prospect Street, something her erstwhile hippie Mom never got used to.</p>
<p>And you will see from my thread below, “I miss her!”, that I’m in the same state as you but luckily without the hurricane adrenaline. Hope all goes well.</p>
<p>My S is very happy, as far as I can tell (since he is not much of a talker!) His largest course has 29 people in it. His other courses have 15, 12 and 12. Like Alu’s D, he has one course that may not be as challenging as he would like it to be, but the others sure are. There are 2 graduate students in one of them. His roommate, btw, is from TX, and they get along very well. Roommate will probably spend Thanksgiving with us.</p>
<p>simba~</p>
<p>I am so very relieved to hear that you and your wife fared well with regard to Hurricane Rita. That whole thing definitely added a different sort of element to your return from dropping your son off at Princeton!</p>
<p>I am so glad to hear that your son is happy so far…it is always a big relief and takes a tiny bit of the sting out of the sense of loss parents feel. I know exactly how you’re feeling though…we have that going on here as well.</p>
<p>And as far as TV…what’s THAT? <em>lol</em> I don’t think I’ve actually sat and watched a program since 1987…<em>sigh</em>. I’m definitely missing out hugely on contemporary culture. “Friends” came and went and just passed us by…<em>lolololol</em></p>
<p>Sending my best to you all. love, ~berurah</p>
<p>It sounds as though all the CC’ers came through well. However, there are many that didn’t. Our neighbors are at family’s in Vidor, TX, clearing the tree off the garage, and delivering food, etc., because they don’t expect power for another 3-4 weeks. They don’t want to leave, because they are on 3 acres of land, and isolated. Worried about keeping what they still have left. Others have nothing left. Our thoughts and energy must be with those people now.</p>
<p>Lindsey seems to be doing well. Great roommates as far as I can tell. She likes most of her course, including 8:00am Arabic. She has already submitted an article to the Crimson. I’m working in Lincoln in the UK for a few weeks. I’m staying right across the street from the University here, so I can get a remote ‘college fix’. Best to everyone across the pond :)</p>