[They arrived to open arms on Friday, Sept. 1.] Everybody is so good to us here, ... It's marvelous.

My brother put us up for two weeks and the kids started school the day after Labor Day,

Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.

Our charge is to review any recommendation they have, but then we are also to review funding sources. We have to maintain balance, and we don't want to be in the same situation pension funds in other big cities have found themselves.

We have evacuated once this year already,

[Living near the Gulf Coast in Ocean Springs, Miss. Dorothy and her family was used to storms.] It happens quite often, ... usually within two days everything is back to normal.