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Posted by
Shade on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 12:44 PM PST
OK, for everyone who is worried let me start with these simple words: We are OK!!! Life as we know it is currently a little fucked, but we are alive and well. Now for a bit more information. I think the easiest way to tell this will be from the beginning.
Wednesday or Thursday before Katrina hit I started to wonder when the next hurricane would put in an appearance. Interestingly enough I saw that there was a small tropical depression just southeast of the tip of Florida. From all appearances, it was going to give the aformentioned tip of Florida a brief blow job and then give up the idea as a bad one. I smiled and drank my tea and went to work. My only worry at the moment was the head cold Callei was coming down with and the fact that I had to figure out to which chapter of Harry Potter I was listening.
Friday I looked at the weather channel again, the tropical depression had developed into a low grade hurricane, but it was on the east side of the Floridian peninsula, nothing to worry about for us. Although I did spare a few moments to send good vibes to all those poor bastards in Florida. I could just imagine a state wide chorus of "Not again" wafting it's way into the sky as they sat glued to the television watching the hurricane march it's way towards them. Callei's headcold was developing into one of those cranky making headaching NyQuil commercials, but she was bearing up ok. Now where was I on Harry Potter today?
Saturday dawned a glorious weekend morning. I slept in until noon, got up, stretched and put on the kettle for a cup of tea. I sneezed a few times and cursed under my breath at the realization that I was coming down with Callei's cold, after a few moments I decided that yes it was definitely her cold because I was already cranky, not a common state for me in the morning on the weekend. I decided to just ignore it. It was Saturday and the only real thing I needed to do for the day was to go shopping for groceries and maybe rent a few movies. So I rolled over, checked the weather channel and saw that the hurricane had actually moved over Florida and was now in the guld of Mexico. It was headed to New Orleans, but A: it was a category 3, which meant a little wind, some lightening and the same amount of rain we get every afternoon. And if it followed the normal pattern, It would head straight for us for about three days and then veer off to the left or right. Nothing to worry about. I got up and we went shopping and we got a massive handful of movies for the weekend so that neither of us would have to think during the weekend. We were both going to have a head cold so why bother ourselve with anything but getting naked, laying on each other, and watching a bit of mindless entertainment.
Saturday evening we got a call from a local friend who wanted to know if we were going to evacuate. We talked about it a bit and checked the news. No real change in the hurricane at that point. No worries. We decided to ride it out like we had the last six or seven that have failed to make an appearance. I put on the Chronicals of Riddick and kicked back to ride out my headache. Callei made it clear that she wasn't opposed to evacuating, but I'll be honest, if it did come through I wanted to see it. I love the raw energy of really big storms, and at the moment, a: it didn't look that big, b: we lived on the third floor, and c: it was a big brick building. I wasn't very worried at all and rolled over to unpause Riddick and go back to watching him fight the death mongers.
Saturday night/Sunday morning: 2 AM my father in law calls. I'd been asleep for two hours trying to sleep off what was becoming a pretty nasty head cold. He had been up watching the news of the storm and they had just announced a mandatory evacuation for New Orleans. He wanted to know not were we going, but when were we going. I mumbled something truly obscene and rolled over to try and go back to sleep. At around three AM I gave it up as a bad idea and sat up to check the weather channel web site while Callei took the next call from her dad. The site showed a much more startling image than it had earlier. I swore a bit more, rolled over and finally got back to sleep.
Sunday morning I woke up at seven thirty, remembered that, in essence, there was a massive super storm headed straight for New Orleans and we needed to leave town right away. There were only a few problems. First on my mind was that our car had no air conditioning. While this might sound like a silly concern at the time, I was remembering that during the last evacuation there had been a couple of deaths in the traffic because people had been stuck in stop and go traffic for nearly four hours with no air conditioning. There was no way I was going to hop in our little sweat box and take us out for a shake and bake on the I-10 parking lot. The second problem we had was where to go. There was the obvious first step of course, away from there. But beyond that...well, first things first.
I called my ex-boss, reached his wife and asked how they were doing. We spoke for a few minutes, she said they were planning on weathering out the storm in the Quarter and thanks for asking. In short I chickened out. I walked around in circles for a few minutes while Callei put stuff ina suitcase and we both gradually lost our minds trying to encompass the fact that in a few short minutes we'd be walking out of our house, abandoning it to the storm. So I had a smoke, made a fresh, really hot cup of tea and called my ex-boss back. I said hello and asked to borrow a car. It was an odd question, but all in all I figured it was worth a shot. The strangest thing was, after a few moments he said yes. So we grabbed the suitcase, my laptop and a few odds and ends that caught the magpie part of our brains which were all that was left at the moment.
We arrived at Felix, my ex-bosses house. Spent a few minutes in conversation, and left our car behind, parked on the side of the road. We hit the road, turned around to go back to the house for one more round at the shiny things and then away we went. To spend the next twenty four hours on the road. The road trip itself is an entire article in and of itself, so I'm going to wait until the hallucinations are a little farther buried. Briefly though, we hit the road and called Kira and Paris who are putting us up for the moment. Life is pretty good at the moment. We are surrounded both physically and digitally with good friends and we have each other.
Of course the house is toast and the car is probably at the bottom of the Missippi and our city has been closed to the public, including residents for the next five weeks, but what the hell, life is pretty good anyway. We're not entirely sure what were going to do next, but we will try to keep everyone updated and everything.
P.S. Yes it's OK to laugh at the funny parts. Life's nothing without the laughs, even if they do happen in the midst of tragedy, especially when they happen in the midst of tragedy.
Oh and I'm about two thirds of the way through Harry Potter and I think my movie rentals are going to be a wee bit late...They weren't shiny enough to warrant being picked up.
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by gothicmorman (litty_klj@hotmail.com)
on Aug 31, 2005 - 02:29 PM
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well, it seems you are in relatively good spirits despite losing your house and whatnot. I'm glad that you two are at least ok.
did you actually get to see, in part, any of the storm like you wanted?
*sending good vibes at shade and callei*~~~~~~~
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Aug 31, 2005 - 04:20 PM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | | thank you so much for you concern. its been amazing how nice people are being to us with all this. |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by gothicmorman (litty_klj@hotmail.com) on Aug 31, 2005 - 07:12 PM
(User info | Send a Message) http://www.freewebs.com/gothicmorman | | people always seem to get nicer when major events like this happen. it makes one think about how much we all have and how much everyone who got caught by the disaster lost and makes those who still have everything more generous about it... |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by Schizo (Aranea@Spidersdance.com)
on Aug 31, 2005 - 03:48 PM
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I am SO GLAD you guys are safe! I think I would have worried myself sick if it weren't for the assurance in the shout box in the forums that you were at Kira and Paris's.
But my thoughts are still with you, and all those you represent. Definitely, your life is never going back to what it was, but I am hoping that the new direction it takes will end up good.
Funny thing is, I am somehow mostly mad. I am mad that I didn't end up being able to go to New Orleans last year for the Shmengfest. I have always wanted to see New Orleans. It is so strange to think that such an old, historic city here in America could be so decimated. I feel robbed, sitting here in New Hampshire, and I know that must be absolutely peanuts to how those who have lost everything must feel. But I'm still pissed as heck. Dammit.
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Aug 31, 2005 - 04:19 PM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | thank you Schiz,
Its great to be alive and Kira and Paris are being wonderful and letting us mope around thier house.
we will post as things change so you can all watch the trainwreck that we are on right now. |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by Starlight on Aug 31, 2005 - 09:01 PM
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I'm really glad to know you guys are safe and sound. I'm, also, really glad to hear that there were some shiny things that stood out enough to get brought along with you. It's such a weird world anyways...I guess all this is just another part of the weirdness. You're safe and together...and that's a strong point to be able to regroup and figure out what to do next. Sending you guys a tight mental hug and lots of well wishes.
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Sep 05, 2005 - 04:47 AM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | | Thanks so much Starlight. It was really weird having like 10 minutes to look around my house and say "so what cant i replace once its distroyed and means so much to me that i will regret it for years." im just glad i remembered everyday things like shirts and a toothbrush, let alone things like the jewlery shade got me for this most recent valentines day. |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by Meranda_Jade (Meranda@mymind.com) on Sep 02, 2005 - 06:04 AM
(User info | Send a Message) | I think that's a good idea. Get everyone in this area together for a "glad Callei and Shade are alive and well" party. Give me a call and let me know what's going on. I am so glad you guys are okay. Things down there are looking worse and worse. I'm just so glad you got out of there and are safe.
*hug*
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Sep 05, 2005 - 04:49 AM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | | as soon as we come out of shock (like actual diagnosed by a professional shock) it would rock to meet up. right now we arent much fun. We are getting better tho! |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by Dante (-)
on Sep 02, 2005 - 02:35 PM
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Greetings Shade,
It's your mom. It was good to hear from you on Tuesday. Would you call and let me know what your plans are?
Love,
Mom
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by Merry_Widow on Sep 03, 2005 - 05:19 PM
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Thank fucking-god. I'm so relieved to hear you got out ok. And I'm sure with your combined brains and good looks, you'll have very few problems in whatever you decide to do next.
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Sep 05, 2005 - 04:51 AM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | Thanks for the praise Merry. We have no idea what we are going to do next. the parish (our version of counties) officials wont let us back in for a month still so we are sort of homeless but sort of on vacation. (no jokes from anyone please about vacationing in Ohio, i am sure i have thought of them all)
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by dead-cell (freaksworth01@netscape.net)
on Sep 03, 2005 - 06:46 PM
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Yaeh! Shade and Callei did make it out! It didn't hit me till Tuesday afternoon that you two live in New Orleans, and I have been trying to get on a functioning computer ever since (relief). So glad to see your article.
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Sep 05, 2005 - 04:53 AM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | | One of the worst moments i have had with this so far was seeing someone I know standing in front of the convention center..... on thursday. talk about worry! thanks for your concern, its amazing to know that so many people care. |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Sep 07, 2005 - 06:39 PM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | YES!!!! he is alive and well and found a place to live with his wife, step daughter, and his best friend/biz partner. I was really relieved to hear from him and amazed to hear about his expereinces in the FQ from Monday to Weds.
As far as I know, all his pets are safe and well too. |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Sep 07, 2005 - 06:42 PM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | we want to i think. we at least want to go back and see it again. frankly I am still too shocked and spooked to think about it seriously.
I start to do that cold sweat thing if i have to be in car for more than 15 minutes so i dont even want to drive out to see the local sites.
But the red Cross is helping us get crisis conseling starting next week so that should help me get over that soon (i hope.)
I know i want to be there for Halloween. |
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by EyeCandyRayce on Sep 09, 2005 - 07:55 AM
(User info | Send a Message) http://www.raycedesign.com/eyecandy/ | I'm glad you are getting so much help from the red cross. I hope the counceling makes this easier to deal with.
Most of all, I'm just glad you both listened to your instincts and got out of there. I was so worried about the both of you! |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Sep 08, 2005 - 04:48 AM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | hellls motherfunckin' yeah is, i think, the right phrase. it is a fully loaded jeep wrangler (brand new, like 3 months old) after all.
We are trying to sort out how to get the car to Colorado and how to get a different car here since our car, the one we left behind, was parked in a VERY flooded area and probably is now in someone's living room growing science projects.
how is the family Schiz? and are your allergies getting any better? |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by Schizo (Aranea@Spidersdance.com) on Sep 08, 2005 - 05:23 PM
(User info | Send a Message) http:// | Doing good, Callei, thanks for asking. All unwelcome elements have been put in their proper places with a minimum of fuss, and communications are down to a two sentence affirmation of visitiation schedule, punctuated by an occasional bid for money, or failed attempt at a guilt trip or renewal of friendship, all neatly ignored.
And the allergies are under control, thanks to the meds. Luckily side affects are minimal, and since our financial situation is looking very up, I may be able to move into a less decaying building within a year.
My life, right now, seems to be relatively free of drama, for once. Which is good, since I think you and Shade have all the drama Shmeng needs for now. |
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by KittyGoesMrow on Sep 11, 2005 - 10:50 PM
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On a first note i'm extremely happy you guys are safe. I feel horrible that New Orleans was hit so badly. It makes me nervous that here in florida all I can seemingly do is sit and wait for the same thing to happen to me. But i hate to dwell on such things. Three hurricanes corssed over my county last season and i'm sitll here so we'll see how bad it gets, hopefully not so bad as Katrina.
But since I am aloud to laugh a little.. the shake and bake comment did make me laugh. Do they even MAKE Shake and Bake anymore?
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Re: Katrina Kabob
by callei on Sep 15, 2005 - 02:53 PM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | sadly, yes the do make shake and bake... I even saw a tofu version at a health food store
le sigh
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