He's OK

Brian flew down to Chile on Thursday to look at his winter nursery. He was suppose to email me his contact information but didn't get around to it before the earthquake struck. I was freaking out for an hour and a half this morning after I saw the news on yahoo, but one of the Monsanto higher-ups called and let me know that they had been able to text out and everyone in the group is ok. They don't have power or running water right now but the Monsanto station they are at has drinking water stored there. Another plug for emergency preparedness. They are out in the field right now looking at plants - don't need power for that. It sounds like they will have some "roughing it" type adventures but nothing dangerous. He flies home next Friday/Saturday so hopefully things will be stable enough by then that he will even be able to take his scheduled flight. Yeah! I can stop planning out my life as a single mom and get back to business as usual. :)