KATRINA????????????

carl

Anyone know if there are any members of this forum that were in that Huricane? Best wishes to anyone there that can read this. Truly sorry about your losses.

Cladiator

Yes there were and they haven't been heard from yet. At least one of them stayed to ride it out...against our advice.

DUIGUY

SaintDennis, an OF member. Hope he made it.

Cladiator

so do i, he was pretty much in the heart of it. i really wish he would have heeded (sp?) our advice

ps. who knows though...perhaps he bugged out last minute and is drinking martinis in houston

lordmarcovan

SilverDreams on the MD forum was on the outer edges of it in Alabama, but is OK.

wjd283

I emailed an ebay buyer telling him I was going to mail his item and he emailed me back and said he was'nt in a hurry because his home was destroyed and he's living in a shelter. I did'nt know what to say after that.

It befuddled me that he still had internet access though.

Cladiator

probably grabbed his laptop with wireless access when he bugged out of the house. got far enough away from the effected areas to get a signal

ddink

FullStrike refused to leave as well.

segoja

Don't know about forum members, but we lived there 20 years ago.

Set up as a dealer for the first time there (New Orleans Coin Club Show).

Many friends, but can't reach any of them.

The entire Gulf Coast Bay St Louis to Biloxi was my retail territory. Several good coins shops through there. Was looking through some mercs that I bought on the gulf coast tonight, thinking the shops that I bought those from do not exist anymore.

Lots of good folks there.

Coinosaurus

Chicago paper today reported that the roof was ripped off the NO mint museum, and that the disposition of the museum artifacts was unknown.

poorguy

My uncle, a coin collector, lives in Gulfport about a mile and a half from the gulf and I haven't heard from him since the hurricane. My family got word that he and his family left on Saturday but had to leave most of their possessions behind including a 21-ft deep sea fishing boat, a full size pick-up and his entire coin collection! He won't be able to go back to his home for quite some time but I am planning on going to help him and his family clean up what is left of their home and belongings.

It is really terrible and I hope this opens people's eyes to the fact that even though we are in the good ol' USA, we are not bulletproof from man or mother nature.

rkfish

Isn't GSAGUY in New Orleans or somewhere close ?? Anyone heard from him ???

Wolfy00002

<< <i>Isn't GSAGUY in New Orleans or somewhere close ?? Anyone heard from him ??? >>



GSA's on the open forum now.

ROBERTB

We got it here in Fort Lauderdale when it was a Cat. 1. We thought we had it bad at the time because we had no power for 2 days. What we had was nothing compared to that devastation.

segoja

GSAGUY is west of there.