it s been very smooth so far from everything we have heard. it s gone floor by floor, from bottom to top. this, of course, was not the triumph s intended destination, but a fire on sunday left the ship almost dead in the water. main power was gone. toilets did not work. hallways became open sewers. it was truly a nightmare cruise. tonight, there is cheering. literally, fizzily cheering because the nightmare is over. passengers are screaming onshore, piling onto the buses, leaving bus after bus after bus, heading to hotels, heading to galveston, heading to new orleans. we have seen remarkable reunions. we have heard passengers offer praise for their ship mates and crew members. we have also spoken to passengers describing primitive conditions. it was tent city. you remember what superdome looked like in katrina? that s what the deck looked like. they asked us to take them all down when the helicopters started making deliveries. so we did that and they straightened every up.
loved ones. that s what we re watching for here. and we re going totally unscripted with this. can you guys want to step in? sure. come on in. hi there, sweetie. identify yourselves if you would be so kind. betty, this is my daughter melissa mcdavid and her daughter cameron mcdavid. we have our husbands and ryan and madeleine and we went on a cruise. my son-in-law andy. three generations of family all here? yep. we came to celebrate her 40th birthday. welcome back. not the birthday you expected. it s all right. so what was it like? it made you appreciate hot water, flushing toilets. electricity. we weren t prepared for it. you came through it as a family. we did. we were all together. that was what was the most important and just glad to be arria ali alive. were you worried at any point it might not end this way? yes, the first night was pretty rough because we were tilting very badly. the ship was listing, right? very badly. i was having