The number of travelers continues to increase as more people find themselves with nowhere else to go. Four family members arrived Friday and more are on the way.

"One minute, you're living your life, everything's fine, you have cable, power, and food," says P.J. Varnado, Brandi's brother, "The next day you realize your whole way of living is gone."

P.J. made the trip to Topeka with his parents and aunt.

"You never thought, there's no home to go back to, it's gone-- memories," says teary eyed Cheryl Varnado, Brandi's mother.

P.J.'s job is just beginning.

"I finally got through to them, so I volunteered to go back and do some emergency disaster relief," he says.

But many others have nothing to go back to.

"Do you start completely over again?" asks Cheryl, "do you start completely over? I don't know what we're going to do, honestly."

"Please, if you get this message, I hope, you're okay," says Brandi, leaving a message for other family members.

And they will wait, to hear who else made it out.

"It's horrible, you're helpless, you don't know where they are," P.J. says.

They are still waiting to hear from family members, but it's been nearly impossible to reach the group of now eleven people.

Brandi says she expects them sometime in the coming days.