Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:43 PM PG we are all just overwhelmingly happy to hear from you. Watching the storm coverage I feared you may have underestimated Katrina a bit. Indeed, we all did....... I am sorry for your loss as I have some experience in that direstion myself, but I am sure things will come around for you. I get by with a little help from my friends. Like Wes, many of us might be able to help with things from clothing to dog food (two Weimaraners), to housing as you wait to go back. Forget everything about "pride" or whatever and let us help one of our own. If you go to Jersey from Paducah, I have you covered for at least one stop along your route as I am in Columbus, Ohio. Keep in touch as best you can and let us know what we can do. Spaw |
Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: GUEST Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:39 PM be safe - let me know if I can help. I can come to NO with a hammer and a saw, some wood ... various gear ... food, clothes too, to some extent. Let us know when you go back, and if we can be of assistance .... |
Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: jacqui.c Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:36 PM Poppagator - Wesley got there first, but what size clothes does your family wear? Is there anything else you need? |
Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: GUEST Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:36 PM Is the quarter under water? Will there be any more O'FLaherty's? |
Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: Donuel Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:35 PM Way to go gattor. You are courageous, adventurous and smart. Ask for what you need whenever you can. |
Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: Wesley S Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:30 PM So glad to hear that you're OK. I'm sorry to hear about your guitar but it sounds like you were able to get away with all of the important stuff - your hide. And your loved ones. You'll have a new guitar before you know it. Stay in touch and give us more of the background stories when time allows. The big picture that the media is giving us is too much to comprehend but your personal story can bring it all home for the rest of us. Can we UPS a box of clothes to you ? I just lost some weight and have a bunch of stuff to get rid of. What sizes does your family wear ? What else do you need ? Give us an address we can send things to. |
Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: Ebbie Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:19 PM Poppagator. Tears here. Thanks for letting us know. Please stay in touch. |
Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:15 PM Yo PoppaGator - I'll be in "extreme western Kentucky" tomorrow! Then on to northern Mississippi Saturday for a family wedding. We have given up our motel room and will carpool from southern Kentucky so we can get there and back on one tank of gas. (rumor has it that there will be shortages in the region - Nashville distribution). See ya 'round. |
Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: Cluin Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:13 PM Well, there you go. Good to hear you and yours are well, PG. That's the main thing. Hope the guitar makes it through too. |
Subject: RE: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: Zany Mouse Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:12 PM Oh, what a terrible experience. I'm so glad you're all OK and let us know what happens next. Positive thoughts on their way across the Pond. Rhiannon |
Subject: Alive and well and OUT of New Orleans From: PoppaGator Date: 01 Sep 05 - 01:06 PM I've been wanting to let you all know my family and I have survived. I've been trying without success to log onto Mudcat for the last day or so, and finally got through just now. I have posted a couple of messages at tweedsblues.net, if anyone wants to look. Let me paste in a copy of the message I sent my brother last night: We're OK ~ at the home of an old friend way up north here in extreme western Kentucky. Spent the storm in Covington ~ Peggy's friend Donna had keys to the home (the palatial country estate) of her employer, who had flown to New York. We were high and dry, on the western side of the storm (the relatively "safe" side), and spent the daylight hours Monday watching 100mph winds snapping trees in half through two-story high picture windows ~ without power, water, or phone service (not even cellphones). Before we left New Orleans, we were relayed a message that we were welcome to come here to Paducah. At the time, it seemed unnecessary and ridiculously far away, but by Tuesday morning it seemed like a great idea. We couldn't stay where we were, certainly can't go back home for another month or so, and would not be able to find motel rooms anywhere within hundreds of miles, even if we could afford to in a hotel for more than a night or two. Plus which, we have two dogs along for the ride! Peggy's car was temporarily out of order this week, but she's been able to use her friend Debbie's car while Deb is in the hospital. Donna had car trouble, too, so we caravanned out of town in two vehicles, my Toyota and Deb's Olds Bravada SUV. Part of the deal involved taking responsibility for Deb's beloved little doggie, and Donna also has a dog she's pretty attached to, so we've been traveling with the two pooches. So, our group includes two animals in addition to (granddaughter) Avery, (daughter) Maggie and (common-law son-in-law) Andrew, (son) Mike, Donna, and Peggy and me. I left with three changes of socks and underwear, one pair of shorts and one pair of long pants, and a handful of t-shirts. Everyone else is similarly unencumbered; of course, we had no idea we wouldn't be back within a couple of days. Even if the town took a direct hit, we figured we'd be back to reclaim more stuff even if the downstairs had flooded and even if power remained off for a week or two. Of course, it's much worse than that, unimaginably catastrophic, and we're looking at starting over from scratch. We might go to Mom's in New Jersey to live for a while; I don't know, We'll stay here for a couple of days and think about our options. We're thankful to OK, and I am intrigued by the idea of a fresh start. My *only* real regret is that I left my guitar ~ as we were packing the car to go, I had a flash that I would be able to squeeze it into the trunk of the car after all, and momentarily thought about unlocking the house and running back in for it, but said "naahhh" and took off. It's sitting in its case on top of my bed on the main floor, about 12 feet above ground level, which I had thought would have been plenty safe, but now I'm not at all sure about that. Everything else we own(ed) I can live without, but that instrument is truly irreplaceable. Even if I were to collect the two or three grand that it's worth, there's no way I could spent that kind of money on a guitar while we're trying to build new lives. Oh well, maybe in another month or so when we can get back into town to reconnoiter, it'll be safe and sound an inch or two above the high water mark. On the other hand, maybe it has been punctured by the limb of a tree that may have crashed through our roof. Won't know for a while. The poor folks who stayed behind are in terrible shape. We could have been among them ~ Peggy had been adamant about not evacuating ever again after the fiasco we experienced last year fleeing town for the Hurricane Ivan false alarm. It was really a last-minute decision to bug out, and obviously we're glad we did what we did. More later. This was supposed to be a "short" note, and I did omit a lot of stories and adventures, but I've gone on long enough already. |
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