Steffi...I MUST add to the other posts, here, and feel that I need to "speak" to you, too. Your home...your beautiful gardens literally swept away before your eyes... One moment, these things were there in all their beauty...the next, there was absolute devastation. It must almost seem unreal to you...yet you perceive all this as a "life lesson", i.e., what really is important in life....something we can all take away from your terrible experience...and something that we all need to remember in our darkest moments. This will be firmly etched in my mind so that when adversity may "strike", I hope I will be able to remember, well, your "life lesson".

God Bless, Steffi...
Therese