[percy-l] "What's so great about this Percy guy, anyway?"
J Rivas-Pita
juliorivas at gmail.com
Sun Sep 11 20:20:37 EDT 2005
Dear Nikki and Carol,
Great to know you two and your pets are all in one piece, and that you've
managed to keep a healthy sense of humor! :)
(which, with 98 per cent humidity and 90 plus temperatures is no small feat,
not counting the rest of hell...)
Love from Caracas,
Julio
On 9/11/05, Dave Duty <daveduty at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> As per Nikki's request -- below are two personal email he sent me in
> regards to my queries about his safety as a result of Hurricane Katrina:
>
> Dear Dave,
> Sorry to be so slow in responding but our power has been knocked out and
> just come back at my office.
> We're still here and with a whole skin and all the pets are well. You
> would not recognize Red Bluff however. You're two of the last few lucky ones
> who got to see the place in the full flush of its horticultural grandure
> before devastation set in. But we're gradually little by little putting
> things back together.
> It has now been two weeks of 98% humidity and 90 + degrees of heat. It is
> what ms dickenson would call "all we need of hell." The extent of the
> destruction of Red Bluff is just beginning to sink in and this evening I
> must go home and pour cornopil on the pool and snake-pond to keep the
> skeeters at bay.
> The pets have been remarkably resiliant though they're as depressed as we
> are.
> And then there's that consoling man Bush looking forward to a bosky
> sundowner on the porch of Trent Lott's Phoenix like new contemplated house.
> When Walker wrote of the good feelings produced by oncoming hurricanes, I
> don't think he had category 5 in his mind's eye. We stayed through it all
> but the Percy family left town for this one and it is now impossible to
> reach their house by car and will remain so for another week or more. The
> snarl of chainsaws is ubiquitous. Thanks for all your good wishes, however.
> Nikki and Carol
> Pepper Blue, Morgan Whiteney, Isambard Brunell, Tundifur Mudpaws and the
> tribe of itenerant racoons.
>
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> Dear Dave,
> Our problem wasn't flooding and I don't think flooding would have
> threatened Bunt. What was utterly demoralizing was the crash of tall pine
> trees that demolished houses. Bunt is in Jackson Miss I understand and her
> driveway is blocked by many trees and I'v e no idea how bad the house may
> have been injured although the Moore's next door appeared sound. That was
> the French provinical that Walker lived in when writing the books and that
> they later gave to Ann and David, thir daughter and son in law, when he and
> Bunt moved into the newer and smaller Cajun Cottage that they built next
> door. The devastation is hard to imagine and even photos don't capture the
> extent of it. We are without power and water although there are parts of
> Covington (like my office where I am typing this) which have both.
> Security-wise we are all ok although I have a loaded rifle by my bedside
> and we lock the cars when we leave them. The horror stories which I
> understand filled the media just after the storm do not apply to us. We have
> had an utter news blackout because of our power losses and have depended on
> NPR to keep us informed. Carol (ever the firm knothead) refuses to believe
> anything they say, however, and I must admit that may of the reports we get
> from eyewitnesses are so frequently in conlict with each other and the media
> as well, that we are somewhat bewildered about what to believe.
> Your kind offer of help is truly appreciated but I think that the utility
> companies will soon have things up and running here and that there isn't
> anything that we need that you can assist with. If you want to reread the
> appropriate WP book, I would go for *Love In the Ruins.*
> **
> *As ever.*
> **
> *Nikki*
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>
> Nikkibar at aol.com wrote:
>
> Dear Dave,
> It would be helpful if you would bounce all of my recent notes to the
> list for the info of anyone interested. Net access is still very dicey and
> uncertain. if anyone has any reliable information about the best vegetable
> oil to spread on a swimming pool to kill mosquito larvae without wrecking
> the eventual reconstruction of the pool, I'd be glad of a recommendation. At
> this point West Nile virus is a concern. Send direct to nikkibar at aol.comwith West Nile rec. in the subject box.
> Thanks
> Nikki
>
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