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From: Cheryl

To: Everybody

Subject: It takes awhile to open but it has a satellite pic of n.o. taken Wednesday

You can see where the water starts and stops by block at least if you trace it back from landmark streets etc. When the street is dark, it’s b/c it’s filled with water seems like

cheryl

From: Cheryl

To: Fontenot

Subject: Re: how are things?

I hope j. did not hole up w/his parents in n.o. east. The stuff online at wwl is terrible. we thought we were okay but now we’re worried our house flooded in that levee break b/c they said the flooding got as far as mid-city. They’re not letting us back yet, so only time will tell…my mom’s trees fell on her neighbor’s house in hammond but she is okay but no electricity…i hope we don’t wind up in some kind of mad max situation guarding our wreckage!

cheryl

From: Stoo

To: Cheryl

Subject: Fwd: Katrina hopes & fears

Here ya go…Remember this is a couple days old. There is a map floating around in Yahoo News Photos of where the flooding is. Irish Channel looks virtually unscathed. Mid-City looks fucked up, alas. Rumor is they’re evacuating my parents from Touro Hospital as we speak. No one knows to where.

Kisses, odom

From: Helen

To: Cheryl

Subject: we’re okay

Cheryl!

I’m so glad to hear from you. I assume Jake’s okay too. We are certainly in the same boat with our Mid-City homes. Paul and Francis and I and Rosie the pig are safe at my parents’ in Columbia, SC. I heard that the Jesuit high school had 9 feet of water inside. I miraculously got in touch by cellphone with a neighbor, Derrlyn, who stayed behind because she is a cop in training. She was optimistic that our street wasn’t flooded too badly, but that was Tuesday morning. She hadn’t been able to get back to Mid-City. I figure our houses are pretty flooded, if standing. Paul will go back to investigate when he feels it is safe, and may be allowed back earlier since he is a doctor at a state hospital. I know Rene is fine and has kept his sense of humor, emailing me that the 8 ball outlook of my film class show at Zeitgeist on Oct. 2 is not so good.

love from Helen

From: Alex

To: Cheryl

Subject: Re: It takes awhile to open but it has a satellite pic of n.o. taken Wednesday

thank you so much! my house may not be flooded as much as I thought or even at all. I can see some green spots around my neighborhood. makes sense because we’re above sea level unlike the rest of Lakeview which is totally submerged. I hope that’s the case…

Alex

From: Fontenot

To: Cheryl

Subject: Re: how are things?

Any word about J. and his family? This whole thing is horrific and unbelievable. I’ve been angry and frustrated for the last two days. How are you doing?

From: Cheryl

To: Fontenot

Subject: Re: how are things?

the rage is about to kill me. i am so angry. we’re getting more and more news of friends who had to walk out of the city and HITCHHIKE to Lafayette, others still stuck, friends parents with cancer left on hospital rooftops and airlifted out just this morning. not to mention the HORROR of not dropping any water for all those old people and not getting them out. disgusting and criminal.

mom and lori went on to baton rouge because no electricity. i’m emailing and calling around and trying to see where j. might be. i assume he left n.o. east with his parents?

From: Fontenot

To: Cheryl

Subject: Re: how are things?

I feel the exact same way. This morning I walked out of my apartment feeling like I wanted to start punching the wall. Let me know if you get any news about J.

From: Jake and Cheryl

To: Helen

Subject: Fwd: makes me cry-photos from mid-city landmarks

Here are some photos from mid-city that someone just sent me.

Cheryl and Jake

From: Bobbie

To: Cheryl

Subject: Red Cross will give you a debit card

hey,

it is true. we went to red cross tuesday and they gave our household $965. my mom got $360 for her self. the catch…you only have 15 days to spend it!

anyway, i just read an e-mail from my friend who is stuck in new orleans and who is also a police officer. she said it really is as bad there as the national news makes it out to be. we should truly stay away until they say it is safe to return. she said people were insane. they were stealing stuff just for the sake of stealing it. they broke into blockbuster and stole dvds. oh the horror!!!!!! our house is totally completey ruined. it makes me sick.

talk to you later.

Bobbie

From: Cheryl

To: Jim

Subject: Re: news?

how long do you think house wiring can sit submerged in water before it corrodes, rots, or is otherwise unusable in yr professional estimation? that is if the foundation does not collapse?

From: Jim

To: Cheryl

Subject: Re: news?

I have no idea about the wiring. If the water is salty, I don’t know. Maybe you get some FEMA money and rewire the place completely. Put a whole new service in. That’d be best, wouldn’t it?

Came across our pictures of you and Jake on your steps yesterday. What’s your address there?

From: Cheryl

To: Helen

Subject:?

dear helen,

hope y’all are all still doing well over there. I’m wanting all my hammering back that i did at my dumb, soaked house since april (and 1998)!

Cheryl

From: Fontenot

To: Cheryl

Subject: the lucky poor

Barbara Bush: Things Working Out ‘Very Well’ for Poor Evacuees from New Orleans By E&P Staff

In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: “Almost everyone I’ve talked to says we’re going to move to Houston.”

Then she added: “What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this—this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.”

From: Mom

To: Cheryl

Subject: Re: Fwd: Hurricane Katrina—Our Experiences

that just makes me so sick. It’s hard to believe, but i know it’s true. i hear only sadness.

love, mom