Evangeline Update
I am so behind! I called Eva last Friday night and talked with her for some time. She is doing okay, although perhaps the shock is wearing off a bit and she is facing reality a little more. She continues to be quite happy at her work and I can tell she is a great resource to the other evacuees coming to the library to register with FEMA and the Red Cross. She is very busy there and comes home quite tired -- on her feet all day running around helping so many people. They've also helped by having the unemployment office come set up on a day so evacuees can register with them and get checks. So she's certainly feeling immensely needed in all this.
She continues to live at her cousin's camp home and her spirits are lifted by the beauty of that region. Her little boy has settled in nicely there and really likes it, so he is comfortable. He has his grandparents with him during the day and Eva can't wait to come home to him each night. They are still up in the air about what they will do long term and are just taking things one step at a time for now. Eva is not optimistic about moving back when the flood waters recede -- there is so much talk about the toxins that will be left behind in the area. So they will have to see how that develops.
She talked again about missing her fic and said she hopes to get online and read some LJs soon, but the library is so busy with evacuees right now that that will still probably be difficult for a while. She hopes to get back to writing her fic, so I hope that can be possible too for her. Meanwhile, I hope you will all keep writing away and posting things that you know she will like -- let me know if you've put up new things that she might like and I'll print them out and send them to her. Or, if you would like to do it yourself, just email me and I'll send you her address. Remember I'm at heidiweidel at comcast dot net.
If any of you still want to do something very direct for her, please contact me...I am plotting something that I think will be very welcome. :D
She continues to live at her cousin's camp home and her spirits are lifted by the beauty of that region. Her little boy has settled in nicely there and really likes it, so he is comfortable. He has his grandparents with him during the day and Eva can't wait to come home to him each night. They are still up in the air about what they will do long term and are just taking things one step at a time for now. Eva is not optimistic about moving back when the flood waters recede -- there is so much talk about the toxins that will be left behind in the area. So they will have to see how that develops.
She talked again about missing her fic and said she hopes to get online and read some LJs soon, but the library is so busy with evacuees right now that that will still probably be difficult for a while. She hopes to get back to writing her fic, so I hope that can be possible too for her. Meanwhile, I hope you will all keep writing away and posting things that you know she will like -- let me know if you've put up new things that she might like and I'll print them out and send them to her. Or, if you would like to do it yourself, just email me and I'll send you her address. Remember I'm at heidiweidel at comcast dot net.
If any of you still want to do something very direct for her, please contact me...I am plotting something that I think will be very welcome. :D