[Leica] I'm baaaaack

[ahgraves at prodigy.net (Allen Graves)]

Glad to hear that you are O.K. Jeffery. my friends from Marigny (who 
are stuck in the wilds of the Mississippi Delta told me that they had 
heard that tings were coming under control in the "dry" neighborhoods 
(Marigny, the Quater, the Irish Channel, Uptown, etc). Someone's 
brother-in-law is an army reserve MP and has been there since 
yesterday and somehow got word back. We can all only pray that this 
is true.

Allen


>My wife and I were deeply touched (maybe overwhelmed) by the level 
>of concern you all expressed for us during this past week. I just 
>bought a laptop at a Houston Best Buy store. Camera-wise, I planned 
>to flee with an MP + 50 'lux but accidentally grabbed the M6 + 35/2 
>Zeiss (sorry).
>
>Thank you, all of you, for your prayers. I made out far better than 
>most of the people in my city. The parts of the city that you 
>remember most  are still okay. I wanted to be able to take pictures 
>of the post-Katrina devastation, but matters degenerated very 
>quickly to a state of martial law. The now notorious WalMart looting 
>was about 6 blocks from Chris and me. That was the beginning of the 
>end for us, and we fled later that day (Wednesday). I'm quite sure 
>that the elderly lady who lives next door to me is dead by now. She 
>was too frail to move about, and there was literally no decent place 
>to take her. Nobody answered our 911 calls. She would not have 
>lasted a day in the Convention Center. We had to leave our pets 
>behind (two labs and two Siamese cats). That was very difficult, and 
>it still haunts me.
>
>The Texans have been wonderful to us. Thank you, Houston!!
>
>I was glad to read that the others in my neck of the woods made it 
>out okay. God Bless you all.
>
>Jeffery (from a Best Western motel somewhere in Houston).
>
>
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