On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:40 AM, John D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Getting news out of people who've been de-homed by a hurricane is more > difficult than I thought. > My sister, who lives nearby, said many are in a sort of not thinking > clearly daze as they find the pieces of their lives and sort through > them trying to figure out how to re-arrange it all. > > My son and his wife found an apartment in Clear Lake and are moving in > as I write this. The girls a little perplexed by a change in schools. > At least they have an address though I don't know what it is. I don't > know if it has electricity. I do know they no longer have a working > automobile.
they should be able to handle that, kids are pretty malleable. getting them back into the school regimen will help them re focus, so mom and dad can deal with the big things. > > His mother and her husband will move in with a local family from their > church. My ex works at the La Porte Branch Library and can receive > packages and has access to the internet from there. That's my main > point of contact with them (and my sister's cell phone). > > My other ex put together packages of clothes for the girls and a slew > of art supplies and crafts projects. Her specialties. She's one of > those people that knows what size you wear and can define you by style > as she's being introduced. When we were dating 25 years ago, she > worked for GQ magazine. Now she works in East Hampton at a summer camp > for kids. (like Gweneth Paltrow's daughter type kids) She said she had > a lot of fun shopping clothes for my girls. > > My sister boxed up school supplies for them. And Anne and I put > together a collection of stuffed animals, toiletries, little girl > cosmetics, toys, journals etc for them. All shipped to the La Porte > Library in care of ex #1. > > I found out today that the birthday gifts I sent to the two youngest > girls remained intact. It was supposed to have arrived September 11, > which was the ten year old's birthday and also the day they had to > evacuate. The five year old's birthday was yesterday, the 22nd. The > twelve year old had a birthday May 13. You can see a photo composite > of them that I use for this years desktop picture here: > http://www.johndeckert.com/artist/granddaughters.html what a gnarly trio! [j/k] cute kids... > <http://www.johndeckert.com/artist/granddaughters.html> > > I suggested your recommendation of accepting donations through a PaPal > account. They either don't know what that is (I've tried to explain) > or are suspicious of it (might empty the account instead of add to it) > or have an issue with the accepting help from strangers. At any rate, > I put it out there. > > well, i don't think any of that's insurmountable...what if we sent something to your paypal account [you have one?]?then you could put the funds onto to a 'china'~mart card and give that to them, yeah? bank cards [like visa] are another venue. gettin' help from strangers is gonna help snap them out of the 'hurricane gaze'...they'll see that people they don't know, understand their plight. losing the vehicle is tough too[btdt] things will move, but at a pace that is hair pulling out if anything. let us know what you'd like for us to do and thanks for the updates. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
