Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeffery... I am so glad you are alive, out and safe...the week of despair has been agonizing.... I am touched by what you wrote below... during these days I constantly wondered what became of you... Steve >> 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).