As mentioned in my previous post, the Marquis has been posting regular updates on the situation in New Orleans and specifically any news about our friends in his LiveJournal. Kallisti, who is here in the San Francisco Bay Area where I am, also has been posting updates and news. I'm especially appreciative of their efforts, as I found myself busy being one of the regular phone contacts (and subsequent relayer of news to various people who then relayed it on to others -- we had quite the phone/online/etc. communication chain going by the end of the week!) So, I was pretty occupied with that and doubtless probably far too freaked out myself to even attempt to post anything coherent about it all online. But I fortunately was able to relay what little I was hearing along to one or both of them all week and let them take care of the important online updating. I definitely did end up referring plenty of people to their online journals, so they could keep up on the latest.
I'd say they, the Marquis and Melusine and Michele as well as others, should know how many many people love them and asked about them and also waited on pins and needles for each little bit of news that could be relayed.
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So, just in case you haven't taken a look at the afore-mentioned LiveJournal updates for the latest, the big news is that Melusine got out of the city on Friday and made it to Baton Rouge. Where she actually later that evening made a point of posting an entry in her own LiveJournal.
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One random and weird bit of slightly amusing news is that Liz (Melusine) and the people she had been holed up with during the hurricane were stopped while they were making their way (by foot) out of the city on Friday and interviewed by NBC's Dateline. Kallisti mentions the segment here in one of her LiveJournal entries.
I taped the segment, too, and here are some screen captures. Liz is the one in the reddish shirt. Her cats, Claudius and Lola, are what's covered up in the shopping cart.
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We're still worried and waiting for word on various other people we know and love who we heard made it through the hurricane itself, but we haven't heard yet how they've been faring during this pretty terrible aftermath ordeal. All we can do right now is just hope they pop up safe and soon -- and doubtless with some amazing stories to tell.
