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

[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