Subj : Re: All family in NO is safe
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 21:41:33

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Chaya wrote:

> Thanks for all your concern.  We found out all family members in
> NO are safe.  One family friend is still unaccounted for, and
> we're hoping he's OK.
> 
> My husband's 70-something aunt weathered the storm in New Orleans
> in her fourth floor apartment, and was evacuated yesterday to
> another city in La.  I hear she'll be taken to another state today
> (Arkansas, maybe).  We have been wondering why her adult son
> didn't come and take her out, but we'll deal with him later.  He
> better have a DAMN good excuse, even if she is fairly obstinate.
> 
> My mother-in-law is quite concerned about the state of the family
> synagogue and her parents' final resting place.  Her family has
> been in NO for several generations, and many in our family are
> mourning the loss of the city.
> 
> In other news my little Michigan town will be getting 180-200
> refugees this weekend.  Word is they are being transported in
> school buses from Louisiana/Mississippi.
> 

Yaaay, on the family.
I don't think there is anything I would enjoy less than riding from 
New Orleans to Michigan on a school bus.  Are you sure you can't add 
a couple of zeros to that number?

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