My mom lives in southern NJ, in the Pinelands area just east of Cherry Hill, and she was saying that they've been okay with the flooding there (all of the houses in her retirement community are all built on slabs, so there are no basements to be flooded), but the flooding in PA is just horrible.

Timelies all!

{{{Maria}}}

I have a bit of grey/silver/white hair, but it's not too noticible unless you're really close. I'm surprised I don't have more by now, considering that I found my first grey hair at age 13.(To be more precise, the girl behind me in class found it, and yanked it out.)

Unless you are like me and are comforted by plotting strategies and contingencies for the worst case scenario, try not to drive yourself crazy imagining the worst. They'll be plenty of time to cry armed with shovels and squeegees, and you won't be alone. And if planning does actually help you, know that it is doable.

Maria, I just want to say again how terribly sorry I am for your sister's restaurant.

And thanks for any info you can give me! I've got a 2006 Honda Civic EX (auto trans.), which Edmunds is telling me is worth around $11,000, and Blue Book says the trade-in value is around $13,000.

I'm going to see what I can find for around that price that's a good-quality 2008-or-later car with under 40K miles (mine was 41K). As long as it's a safe car with automatic transmission and the ability to play an iPod through the speakers, I'm fine.

OMFG! {{{{{{Maria & Family}}}}}}

What a craptastic year this is turning out to be.

I'm ready to cry just thinking about it; I cannot imagine what my sister is feeling. And not to mention people in the region who are losing everything they own, including their houses. It's unfathomable.

Oh, Maria. I'm so sorry. It's so hard. I hope and pray that the community can band together and get through this. It's all you can hope for when nature devastates everything in its wake. Ugh.

Oh Maria, I am so sorry for you and your family.

Ditto the car, Kathy, but I am glad you are okay,

Kathy I do love my ford focus and a 2008 should be on that range.

Also, Kathy be sure that you are okay. Don't assume that you always have headaches and can ignore the bruises only to realize several days later that you were big-time concussed. *cough* For instance.

Your safety and health is the most important thing.

I feel kind of like a dick. MRJ just emailed me.

I think I'm kind of not-in-my-right-mind, lately, when it comes to reasonable expectations of other humans. Was I ever in my right mind, though?