before yesterday and the flooding was just too extreme, and we talked to other ezresidents who know this island better than we do. yesterday when we heard these flights i thought maybe they were landing and we were going to see palettes of aid, water, gas everything coming off. the fences are pretty much all knocked down and there are several terminals there. one we entered because it doesn t have any walls on it, and the others are still all boarded up, but they have been under water for days. they are still standing but perhaps they are damaged even worse. we walked down the runway. at the very end we could see a helicopter in the distance that landed. i couldn t tell what they were doing. they were not unloading anything. the runway is literally shrapnel, pieces of metal, pieces of concrete, there are pieces of a plane that had come apart. everywhere you looked there was