Heaven Is A Homeplace

On the morning of Friday, September 27, I sent a frantic text message to my cousin Paul:“Been thinking of Granny’s house and hoping it survives this storm! Let us know!”It wasn’t long after I sent the text that the lights went out, along with the internet. And cell signal, already spotty in the mountains, seemed to drop altogether. There we were: me and my husband and our two small children, alone with the wind, the rain, and our worry.I live in the mountains of Western N