Georgia Update

As Brenden's note on Facebook said, things seem to be getting worse rather than better. Gori, where Brenden and I lived last summer, was hit by seven more bombs today (there were six yesterday), and the neighborhood of Kombinati (our neighborhood) was particularly hard hit. The bridge between Kombinati and the rest of the Gori is apparently damaged, so you the main east-west highway is closed down (the main east-west highway doesn't actually go through Gori, but since the bridge on the main highway has been uncrossable due to flood damage for several months now, that's the only way across). Georgia's main port city, Poti, and several other towns were also hit last night and this morning. Also, as some of you have seen in news reports, Tbilisi is, obviously, a potential target.

The good news, however, is that Brenden and I are actually going to be together again. They are taking us to Bakuriani so all the volunteers will be together again. They are adopting a "wait and see what Russia does" approach. If Russia stops bombing, we might go back to our sites on Sunday or Monday. If they don't, we might evacuate to Armenia. This does mean I probably won't have Internet access for a while, and although I will have cell phone coverage (albeit spotty) for the next few days, we probably won't have cell phone coverage if we do go to Armenia (I's using a lot of modifiers because nothing is really sure yet). They do have a safe location for us already in Armenia, though, which is good. So keep us in your prayers still--it will probably keep getting worse before it gets better, but no one really knows what's going to happen.

- Carissa