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Subject: [Leica] OT NOLA Katrina
From: jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sun Aug 28 13:46:02 2005

Thanks, Simon. I'll try to get some aftermath pics. ;-)

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of animal
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 3:24 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT NOLA Katrina


All the best.
simon jessurun
amsterdam
the netherlands
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeffery Smith" <jls@runbox.com>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 10:19 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] OT NOLA Katrina


> Thanks, Ted. I can't leave my wife behind, and she has faith in God 
> that we'll be safe. I don't see any of us dying. We may lose a roof, 
> but we are on high ground (relatively speaking). I'm below sea level, 
> but I have a second floor. The problem with evacuating is that the 
> freeway is moving at 5 mph and there is very little gasoline anywhere 
> down here. If I lived anywhere else in New Orleans, I'd have left. 
> Most of my neighbors have no cars and cannot leave. There is Live Oak 
> Middle School about 8 blocks from here. If I lose my roof, we will 
> probably trudge down there.
> 
> Keeping my fingers crossed.
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted 
> Grant
> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 1:51 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT NOLA Katrina
> 
> 
> Jeffery,
> Like others have posted, leave if at all possible! Don't try to second

> guess Mother Nature! Certainly this time. Why! Simply because we are
> experiencing 
> weather conditions around the planet like never in the past or as
> violent 
> these days. Quite often fooling even the most experienced weathermen
and
> 
> their electronic gadgets.
> 
> In the event you stay and as callous as this may sound under the
> circumstances...... make sure you get pictures! Certainly without 
> endangering yourself.
> 
> May the Great Spirit give you and family comfort and safety.
> 
> ted
> 
> 
> 
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