Update On My Nawlins Friends
Fortunately none of my family lives in New Orleans anymore so it’s just my adopted dysfunctional family (my friends) that I have to worry about. I have now heard from or of most everyone in my old social circle that was still living in the New Orleans area.
El, PW (and English who arrived in town in time to evac), Peter, and Meg have been verified by myself as safe in Memphis — meaning I’ve spoken to them myself. It’s still impossible to contact anyone via a cell phone with a 504 area code though they aren’t actually physically in the 504 area code at the moment. Peter and Meg are in a hotel and El, PW, English, and El’s family are staying with El’s sister’s family. The current plan is that they (El, PW, English, El’s mom, & El’s beaux) will probably leave from Memphis and meet me in Atlanta on Thursday as planned — might as well since they already have the reservations and they can’t go home yet.
Email from BJ assures me that he is safe. He has heard from 2Cool who is also apparently in Memphis with his family. I was particularly worried about that because his family lives in the 9th Ward and 2Cool cannot swim, though he does live closer to the Quarter than his family.
Mickey and Minnie and offspring are with her family in an northern LA town and are safe. JB’s brother and family are safe though I don’t know their location. One of our fringe friends has checked in, but two have not been heard from as of yesterday.
The one thing I want to do before the next hurricane is set up a true plan for keeping connected, have them pick either JB or myself as the contact point so people can call in and check in and so it’s not chaos with people trying to find each other.
On a worrisome note, on my alumni mailing list, people have begun looking for family that stayed behind. It’s very disturbing and sad. I pray for everyone and their families.
tags: Hurricane Katrina, missing persons
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on September 1, 2005 at 3:33 pm
Jennx said:
This is good news. I have not kept up with your blog lately, but when the disaster struck, I thought of you and your friends. Here in New Mexico today, all the Clear Channel stations are broadcasting on location for Storm Aid. The outpouring of support has been phenomenal. I just hope the donations get properly distributed, and the Red Cross is the main connection for that. Thanks for keeping people connected on a personal level.