Fuck you Irene.

[seiberwing]

My grandmother (old, mobility/hearing issues, mild memory problems, and also an all around personality disordered hard to deal with jerkface) was in Fleischman's in the Catskills, where there was a lot of flooding. Her motel is "gone", as she put it (EDIT: no seriously this thing is floating down main street it is not even attached to the ground anymore), and she was evacuated to somewhere arts and cultural. As of my mom's last text "Gran evac'd to music conservatory nr ski resort so much higher ground. She is laying down talking to a friend, okay for now". However, the roads are flooded so we have no idea when or how she's going to get out.

My parents' current plan to throw my autistic brother in the trunkbackseat and drive up there (15 hours from Knoxville, TN) as soon as the roads are clear, since renting a car after flying into LaGuardia is going to be next to impossible. I'm on standby to catch a plane to LGA, if needed, and take care of my brother at her apartment while my parents take care of Grandma. We're not worried about her safety, more the mechanics of getting her back to her apartment in Queens. If she'd just stayed in the city this summer like we all told her to this would not have happened.

If anyone has any ideas, resources, cars, or psychic powers that might help us out, it would be deeply appreciated.

Comments

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

I hope your grandmother is OK. That sounds like a huge mess! D:

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

This shit is kinda fucked.

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

No kidding! D:

kittendaddy's family are in Queens and Upstate, but they're all OK. They didn't even lose power!

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

If she had just stayed in Queens. Or gone back to Queens. Or ANYTHING but stayed in the country, this wouldn't be a problem anymore.

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

Why TF did she go to the freaking Catskills, of all places! D:

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

She does it every summer. We tried to get her to go to Knoxville where my dad could keep an eye on her, but she's got just enough sense left in her to be stubborn as a mule.

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

Good grief. That must be incredibly frustrating! D:

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

My grandmother is a frustrating and generally horrible person when she's not giving me money or buying me things. It's an odd relationship.

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds like my mom. LOL

[ginga270.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew what to tell you... :< I'm so sorry. I hope it all works out. *hugs*

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

It will. It's just pissing me off right now.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

I am relaxing by reading the newest in Byrne's M-U. I am a sad sad woman.

[ginga270.livejournal.com]

I know...but it's better to be pissed off later once all this shit is over with, even though I know that's gotta be really hard to do right now.

*more hugs*

Also wow...and I have been failing to tag that so hard, ahaha...

Speaking of Damned, if there's NS missions again, are we gonna try for Badd and Byrne to get one again?

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Definitely! Either way, though, Badd's trying to find out why everyone's so dodgy about the basement, so we might make another go for a basement threesome.

[ginga270.livejournal.com]

And Byrne's been trying to figure out WTF happened last night while he was being M-U'd. :| Whatever they do, mission or basement or whatever, he's going to be pestering Badd about it. Basement sounds just as fun, though Byrne still needs a weapon...

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Badd's got a gun and ten bullets due to his medical compliance, if Byrne really needs the paper cutter.

But I do want, at some point, to see Badd delivering a rage-filled smackdown on something menacing Byrne.

[ginga270.livejournal.com]

Okay cool \o/

Oh god yes me too. Extra points if Byrne gets hurt anyway before Badd can deliver Angry Boyfriend Justice upon the monster that harmed him!

[stlg13bomber.livejournal.com]

I have this image of Badd standing with paper cutter in one hand and gun in the other with Byrne behind him clutching a bleeding arm.

[ginga270.livejournal.com]

... We must make this happen. We MUST.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Actually, uh, bee tee dubs...

Badd pulled an SC tonight.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Well, technically one of my characters did. I'm really wondering how Carter might fare.

[ginga270.livejournal.com]

Oh man. Have you chosen which character you're gonna do for the SC yet? If you have and it's Badd, would having Byrne run into him be a good idea...? Or would it cause too much trauma?

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Probably too much too soon, I think.

[ginga270.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking. Alrighty, then Byrne will spend the night looking for him but won't find him. ...It's like the reverse situation of last NS.

[penguinfaery.livejournal.com]

nothing but good thoughts, but those will be sent your way.

[grimmhooke.livejournal.com]

I'd help you if I had anything I could do. Will be sending thoughts and prayers your way, though. This whole situation is just awful.

[biting-moopie.livejournal.com]

Oh no. I'm sorry. I hope that things have improved for your grandmother. Sadly, I can only send internet hugs and purrs from my cat, but I hope they help a tiny bit.

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Getting her out of the Catskills turned out to be the easy part, actually. It's made her dementia worse and she's freaking out and calling my parents every time she's alone or has the slightest cough or anything she can do to get attention.

We're all pretty sure that she'll have to go live near my parents at an assisted living facility pretty soon. Whether she wants to or not.

[biting-moopie.livejournal.com]

Oh man. That's awful. I'm really sorry.

That's so rough. It's the right decision to make but it doesn't make it any easier.


*sends extra hugs for you and also cuddles from my cat and also some pie*

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

It doesn't help that she's a selfish horrid person on top of it. Not once did my parents get a thank you, and she was insisting that they drop everything and come back to NY because she had a cold and "I never asked for anything and nobody ever did anything for me".

Don't be mistaken. We don't actually like her. But she's family and my dad has a guilt complex.

[biting-moopie.livejournal.com]

Oh God, fucked family dynamics. You've got nothing but sympathy from me. The emotional manipulation you describe is so very familiar.

You and your parents are nice people, and you sound like you the patience of a thousand saints. <333