Purrs for Mom, Please

My mom is having a lot of trouble coping with the aftermath of Katrina.
Sometimes it's comical - like when she tries to talk on her cell phone and
disconnects 5 times during our conversation by accidentally hitting the
"off" button (they still don't have land line phone service in Chalmette).

But mostly it's just sad. She feels lost and disconnected. All her friends
are scattered and at their age it's not easy to drive to one another's
residence for a visit (they used to gather in the meeting area of her
assisted-living apartment every evening).

She drove down to my daughter's house today and made the mistake of turning
down Colonial Drive. It used to be a showcase of beautiful home, but now
it's one of the most devastated parts of Chalmette, where whole houses were
moved into neighbors' yards - foundations and all!

She called me up this morning crying, saying, "You just can't imagine what
it looks like - all the pictures and television coverage just can't convey
the devastation, it's looks like the aftermath of a nuclear war!"

Even the looting of her assisted-living apartment didn't get her as down as
she sounds today (she lived on the third floor, so was spared the flooding -
but some @$$hole looter tore up her apartment, even ripping into her
mattress looking for stashed cash and jewelry).

Anyway... Coping purrs for my mom would be greatly appreciated.

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Hugs,

CatNipped

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"CatNipped" wrote in message
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Anyway... Coping purrs for my mom would be greatly appreciated.


Here's hoping she calms and copes well *soon*

*hugs* helen s

Coping purrs for my mom would be greatly appreciated.

Four sets of purrs, including extra loud ones from Smokey who knows
what it's like to have your living situation in upheval.

--Fil

CatNipped wrote:

Anyway... Coping purrs for my mom would be greatly appreciated.

Lots of purrs on the way.

--
Marina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki.
marina (dot) kurten (at) iki (dot) fi
Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/
Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/
and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki

Purrs for your mother in the midst of the ongoing upheaval and
devastation. And purrs that life will improve exponentially in the
states that were hit hardest by Katrina. It's hard for people in the
middle of a disaster area when they stop being the news, but the
disaster is a long way from over and "normalcy" whatever that may mean
to people is still months or years away.

Melissa

CatNipped wrote:
My mom is having a lot of trouble coping with the aftermath of
Katrina. Sometimes it's comical - like when she tries to talk on her
cell phone and disconnects 5 times during our conversation by
accidentally hitting the "off" button (they still don't have land
line phone service in Chalmette).

But mostly it's just sad. She feels lost and disconnected. All her
friends are scattered and at their age it's not easy to drive to one
another's residence for a visit (they used to gather in the meeting
area of her assisted-living apartment every evening).

She drove down to my daughter's house today and made the mistake of
turning down Colonial Drive. It used to be a showcase of beautiful
home, but now it's one of the most devastated parts of Chalmette,
where whole houses were moved into neighbors' yards - foundations and
all!

She called me up this morning crying, saying, "You just can't imagine
what it looks like - all the pictures and television coverage just
can't convey the devastation, it's looks like the aftermath of a
nuclear war!"

Even the looting of her assisted-living apartment didn't get her as
down as she sounds today (she lived on the third floor, so was spared
the flooding - but some @$$hole looter tore up her apartment, even
ripping into her mattress looking for stashed cash and jewelry).

Anyway... Coping purrs for my mom would be greatly appreciated.

Purrs on the way.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera)
A House is not a home, without a cat.
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

"CatNipped" wrote in message
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My mom is having a lot of trouble coping with the aftermath of Katrina.
Even the looting of her assisted-living apartment didn't get her as down
as she sounds today (she lived on the third floor, so was spared the
flooding - but some @$$hole looter tore up her apartment, even ripping
into her mattress looking for stashed cash and jewelry).

Anyway... Coping purrs for my mom would be greatly appreciated.


Coping and calming purrs and prayers will be on the way as soon as I'm done
cursing all looters to hell a thousand times over and calm down myself.

I'm strongly in favor of the old "looters will be shot on sight" strategy.

I cannot understand people that will do this to each other in the aftermath
of disaster.

Jo

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:54:29 -0600, "CatNipped"
wrote:

My mom is having a lot of trouble coping with the aftermath of Katrina.
Sometimes it's comical - like when she tries to talk on her cell phone and
disconnects 5 times during our conversation by accidentally hitting the
"off" button (they still don't have land line phone service in Chalmette).

But mostly it's just sad. She feels lost and disconnected. All her friends
are scattered and at their age it's not easy to drive to one another's
residence for a visit (they used to gather in the meeting area of her
assisted-living apartment every evening).

She drove down to my daughter's house today and made the mistake of turning
down Colonial Drive. It used to be a showcase of beautiful home, but now
it's one of the most devastated parts of Chalmette, where whole houses were
moved into neighbors' yards - foundations and all!

She called me up this morning crying, saying, "You just can't imagine what
it looks like - all the pictures and television coverage just can't convey
the devastation, it's looks like the aftermath of a nuclear war!"

Even the looting of her assisted-living apartment didn't get her as down as
she sounds today (she lived on the third floor, so was spared the flooding -
but some @$$hole looter tore up her apartment, even ripping into her
mattress looking for stashed cash and jewelry).

Anyway... Coping purrs for my mom would be greatly appreciated.

Purrs on the way for your mom to come to terms with all the changes
and feelings of disconnection.

Ginger-lyn

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http://www.spiritrealm.com/summer/
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats)
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....mmer/index.htm (genealogy)
http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against
Animals in Movies Website)

"CatNipped" wrote in message
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My mom is having a lot of trouble coping with the aftermath of Katrina.

I'm not surprised. Purrs coming over from England for her.
We are *so* lucky here, weatherwise.
We moan and groan: it's always raining (which it mostly is!): it was
minus2/3/4/5C and I had to scrape my car windscreen before I could go to
work: the weather never stays the same for a week: it's hardly ever hot.
All true. We don't get earthquakes, bush fires, tornadoes (usually) and
only rarely a little hurricane. Extremes of weather are unusual here and
rarely last for more than a few days.

Tweed

"CatNipped" wrote in message
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My mom is having a lot of trouble coping with the aftermath of Katrina.


Many comforting purrs for your mom. Her situation is so unsettling and
scary. We will pray and purr that she feels more comfortable soon.
Charleen
Mr. Pumpkin
Aggie Marble
Victor Velcro