According to the news, it's very difficult to get contact with anyone in that general area. So I'm sure that's what your experiencing.
They have had had poor signal, but I got a surprise call from Liz on an unrecognized cellphone number (her sister's cellphone) just earlier when I was at the gym.
So for updates:
Their family is fine, they're all safe and their house isn't blown over or even touched.
The power is completely out in their neighborhood and only the one person down the street has a generator
They have some food and water and if they need to they would just head out to their grandfather's place to get food and provisions.
Liz and her brother are going to go out with their aunt and help in whatever way they can, handing out provisions, giving blood, anything.
She was describing to me how it was, and what she'd seen and I can't imagine it. She talked about how many helicopters there were, how many homes just got completely decimated (including one of her friends's) and she was upset that this had happened to the town where she grew up all her life.
I was sort of speechless but just cheering her on for going out and lending a hand. She feels lucky and she thanks everyone on the forums for praying for her and for everyone out in the affected area (yes I did tell her that y'all were praying).
In other news, the gym trainer got me worked out more in 5 minutes than I have been doing in 20-40 minutes. And she's cute as hell (looks like Gillian Jacobs). But she's married wif a kid. Lovely luck I have.
In other other news: I think Kate Middleton is cute but I can imagine if you see her face in the papers and on TV all the time that you'd get a bit bored of it?