Just spoke w /Richard Thompson Online(first hand N.O. updates)

He got out of the city and is staying at Dan's place in Baton Rouge.

Here is a cut and pasted portion of our conversation, certain things were omitted

syf0n: hey *******
syf0n: I hope you got all your **** out
syf0n: because that place is out of ****ing comission
JSinNOLA: as much as possible
JSinNOLA: i told you to get your ass out of there
JSinNOLA: where are you that allows you to be online?
syf0n: starbucks
syf0n: baton rouge
syf0n: dan's house
syf0n: staying with him
syf0n: left new orleans last night
syf0n: I was almost robbed and held up 3 times
syf0n: someone tried to steal the jeep while i was driving it
syf0n: it is a warzone
syf0n: you know that movie 28 days later?
syf0n: it's like that, except instead of zombies, it's savages
JSinNOLA: christ dude
syf0n: ****ing nuts uptown
syf0n: took a ton of pictures
syf0n: stayed downtown the nightr of the storm
syf0n: in a parking garage
syf0n: whitney bank building
JSinNOLA: any way I can see them?
syf0n: it worked like a charm
syf0n: our house is fine
JSinNOLA: ****
JSinNOLA: amazing
syf0n: no real time to talk
syf0n: I can call later
syf0n: no water uptown even still
JSinNOLA: understood
JSinNOLA: let me give you a number to reach me
syf0n: ok
JSinNOLA: 817-924-****
JSinNOLA: im in ft worth
JSinNOLA: thats my aunt's number
syf0n: ok
JSinNOLA: if you call leave a message with a way to reach you
syf0n: ok
syf0n: my cewll works but network is clogged
JSinNOLA: good to hear
JSinNOLA: just glad you are ok
syf0n: thanks
JSinNOLA: and amazing good luck with your house
syf0n: will call you otnight
JSinNOLA: my mom's house had 20 ft of water on her property
JSinNOLA: f*cked
JSinNOLA: hey, any word on dave goldman?
syf0n: man
syf0n: I was in tears about him
syf0n: i tried to get to his house in the jeep
syf0n: they wouldn't let me
syf0n: i told him I had just talked to him about picking him up (I lied, I hadn't heard from him)
syf0n: thewy wouldn't let me
JSinNOLA: I heard there was a lot of water in his area
syf0n: there was :-(
JSinNOLA: luckily his roof is quite high up
JSinNOLA: I really hope he was picked up and brought to the superdome with other people who were rescued
JSinNOLA: i have no clue how my apartment made it
syf0n: prolly pretty good
syf0n: prolly no broken windows on south side of building
syf0n: i took tons of photos
JSinNOLA: i'll let you get back to handling what you need to do
JSinNOLA: let me know how I can help
JSinNOLA: talk to you later bro
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Agreed on the cell phone issues. It's been very very annoying. At least we can still use them to send text messages with ease...