Empress of Mars: Undisputed @zebratron2084@awoo.space

Yup. She's OK.

We got a panicky text saying she was without water, power, or lights and was nearly out of phone battery. Poor thing has a rudimentary grasp of modern phones at best and might be a tad senile so I suspect she just panicked and reached out to the last contact on her text messages. She told us to contact her friends, the ones who checked on our place this morning and spotted one of the tabbies, and then she went totally incommunicado.

I used my (godlike, frankly =^_^=) research skills to dig up a phone database <s>that i totally do not use to stalk minor GOP officials</s> and found her full name and address. We tried multiple emergency numbers to no avail, and then Peg had the genius idea that she recalled the name of her apartment building and should check for an emergency number.

Someone has since looked in on her and she is OK. They are presumably getting her assistance and some phone charge.

And shit do I REALLY need a nap and some shitty food now. I might eat the entire rest of my mom's gnocchi and bracciole. I might just go the fuck to Taco Bell and eat shitty nachos until I pass out.

I have absolutely no idea why she didn't contact her senior home's front desk, but... on the other hand, I can't IMAGINE this woman being able to do an Internet search on her phone competently, let alone while in a panic.

Fuuuuuuucck that was a weird experience.

Instead of actually getting to take a break and decompress I think Peg and I might have just saved Crazy Cat Lady's life, or at least made it a lot less uncomfortable and scary.

Long story. No brain left. Bed soon. I fucking hope.

pls send all yr best rubber/hypno/drone/robotization smut care of this thread

beepboop <3

i think tonight i am having a grand ritual magickal wank of gratitude and continued hope towards cyberbast and her human minions, all bless and praise the cat network

fuck i mean if anybody wants to draw horny latex cyberbast for me as an act of disaster relief i sure wouldn't say no ^_________^;;;;

@Sig @anthracite Sig has his very own Solace clone! Maybe they'll meet someday! ^_________^

ok offline and nap/food/mst3k-/homestar-trance for reals now

There is about a 90% chance that either Artie or Shemp has been spotted alive and mobile.

No word on the others. The feeders had a lot on their plates and I doubt they stayed long. They said nothing about the house being collapsed or anything, also good. And it's still rainy in NOLA so I suspect any other survivors are hiding out.

I pray to Bast whoever they found is just the advance scout and in a few minutes they'll be mewing "HEY! FOOD!" at the others.

Shutting down for a while. Much of the recent news is *potentially* good but tenuous enough that it's just making the suspense far worse. I just need to get my mouth off of the information firehose after four days of frantic Ida-related research and networking.

It's looking like at least several of our worst-case scenarios are unlikely, in that there is some kind of city to return to and low odds of a follow-up storm this week. We'll see re: house/cats.

Thank you all so much for everything.

@anthracite

in fact fuck it, once i'm recuperated enough to fully attach myself to the information firehose... give me the convenience store's name and location, i'll find the phone number and tell the fucker myself XD (kidding, do not seriously expect you to but at this would i totally fucking would)

@anthracite you tell the next one your husband's cousin is a biomedicine phd working on genetically sequencing COVID-19 and she says they're completely off of shit.

also feel free to give them my twitter account if they'd like to see around fifty peer-reviewed studies that also say she's full of shit

This is a full day earlier than we were expecting anyone to be able to check on them even best-case scenario. Still scared shitless, still dare not cultivate hope. But this is better than expected.

YES. We just heard from the people who were feeding the "crazy cat lady's" buddies down the street before us, and they said they're in town and will try to go to our place later today to look for survivor cats and leave some food and water.

I dare not even hope. I dare not even hope.

@Cerulean @anthracite I love ya, hun, so just hearing from you is great and silence is fine if that's what you got. <3

I asked the boss if I could drain the rest of my sick days to take off the next week and focus on recovery.

He just arbitrarily granted me a week's paid vacation.

I think I'm still gonna do some pro-bono work for him. I believe the exact words I used in my reply were "eternal fealty."

It dawned on me that the massive power failures in New Orleans might be the thing that saves our cats. Electrocution in flood waters with downed power lines was one of my big fears.

I have no idea if any of this is realistic. I'll be honest, my hopes are still pretty grim, especially 'cause I have no idea how or who's gonna feed them even if they DID make it through.

@LexYeen @anthracite Yup, much appreciated hun. *hug* Right now I suspect what I'll really need between now and Thursday is truly heroic levels of emotional support and practical advice on how the hell to solve the increasingly convoluted logic puzzle of how to inspect and clean up our house, get someone feeding any surviving cats, and either get @anthracite safely to Ohio or both of us somewhere with power so I can keep doing my day job...

@Leucrotta I'll be in a lot better shape as soon as @anthracite and I are safe in the same room together.

This is exactly how 90% of the Internet's "sympathies" towards New Orleans are landing for me right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIwPhzT4Lb8

(That other 10%? That's YOU. You have been invaluable and give me a very reassuring and strengthing sense that Peg and I will not be left alone to founder in all this. <3 <3 <3 )

@JulieSqveakaroo It's OK hun. *hug* Believe me, nothing anyone here can do can make the stress needle more than twitch by comparison to the grand situation. *hug*

@JulieSqveakaroo Sadly that is maybes on cat feeders, not on surviving cats. We still have no idea whatsoever. ;____;

gonna have a nice dissociative stress wank to fend off the urge to kill myself

(i categorically will not actually harm myself. not as long as my mom and peggy walk this earth. but damn, does the idea of rage-quitting this stupid unfair game sound appealing right now)

Yeah, shit is really hitting the fan now that it looks like NOLA's electrical infrastructure took a massive hit.

I don't know if it'll even be possible, but I might have to get @anthracite out of there, hole up with her in Ohio for a while, and find someone to feed any remaining cats. (We have at least two strong maybes, which is a relief.)

I suspect I will not be able to fly home on Thursday. If I do, I have no idea how I'll even do my job.

We're definitely gonna need your assistance soon.