OK I talked to Hoop again this morning at 7am their time. It was a long night, the storm is very slow-moving but he is OK. His area and property are not flooded, he had a tree come down and a phone pole break, and there is debris in his yard. They have no power and no running water, but he's got the generator, and stores of water, food and fuel.

There is debris, power lines down, trees down etc all over the road so there is no going out and no one can come in, so he's isolated presently - he's expecting a week - two weeks to restore power and water. He'll be up all day and finally get some sleep tonite.

Apparantly some levees farther north did overflow, but in his area things are OK. He'll go out today to take a look around the area and do more assessment. It was a long night but so far he made it through OK thank God.