You could see the high-water mark on the side of the house. Anne Marie went to look at it and came back to the car in tears.

By the end of our time here, saying goodbye, Lynn and I were clinging together, crying. It was a horrible thing that happened, this hurricane, but something good came out of it. We got to spend time with a near-and-dear family.

I talked to an Episcopal priest who said everyone's lost something. We're all in grief together. To try to compare one loss with another is not a useful activity.

How do you get parents to pay for their child to come study in a city that was so badly damaged?

The predominant emotion here, I think, is one of great sadness. The city is never going to be the same.

A lot of water can flow down the west Florida shelf and pass through the passes in the Keys. But I haven't seen anybody in the scientific community suggesting that's the cause.