Thank goodness... one of our NY own is accounted for. Just got an email from GG, here is the text...

Thanks for your email and concern. I'm OK, though it has been a terrible day. Please feel free to disseminate my status through the boards. I would do it myself but as you will appreciate, it's very hectic. There are things I need to attend to right now. I will not be checking in with SB for a little while. Hope everyone's well. Once again, thank you so much for getting in touch.

God bless.

I am choked up with relief. Now if we can only hear from ItzLisa and moonbaby....

dangerkitty

• RE: GG IS FINE!! Got an email....,Outfrontgirl, 06:16 PM, 09-11-01
• RE: GG IS FINE!! Got an email....,LadyT, 06:52 PM, 09-11-01
• I'm glad you're safe, GG...,Survivorerist, 07:02 PM, 09-11-01
• RE: GG IS FINE!! Got an email....,Dalton, 07:46 PM, 09-11-01
• RE: GG IS FINE!! Got an email....,Jizzy, 07:51 PM, 09-11-01
  • RE: GG IS FINE!! Got an email....,Monkeyboy, 08:05 PM, 09-11-01
• RE: GG IS FINE!! Got an email....,aymelek, 08:03 PM, 09-11-01

I am so happy GG is OK!!!

I too just got an email from my friend who lives in Manhattan.
Just as news as to what it's like for someone in the thick of it trying to communicate and take stock, I'll copy her report here. She mentions she just got through to her father, who lives in Boston like AyaK, so don't know it there's some communication troubles on that end...

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sorry i've been belated in realizing people were trying to get in
touch -- I reached my dad via email only after noon, then slowly
became aware others were out there with NY on their minds...

anyway needless to say it has been about the most surreal thing
imaginable, though the city is already becoming more normal. A lot
of the subways are running again, there's a little traffic, and
they've reopened some bridges to pedestrians -- earlier the subway
was closed, the streets were full of people walking north, no cars,
bridges and tunnels closed, fighter jets only things in the air, all
train and bus stations closed... I have heard from several people
who saw it, including my roomate's best friend, who is here now. She
works for the janitors' union - they have 800 members who work in the
trade towers. Today was supposed to be election day; she was at the
union offices on canal street, in easy view of the disaster,
mobilizing volunteers for the election. They saw the second plane
crash and the first tower collapse -- only after that was the
election called off, nearly an hour after the first crash. then
suddenly someone yelled to get out and everyone just ran; she arrived
here with no wallet or phone #s. I'm sure you've seen the film, the
people jumping, running, hanging from windows, dust five inches deep,
millions of sheets of paper glittering in the sky -- today is one of
the clearest days I have ever seen in NY; even now there isn't a
trace of smoke visible in midtown. There is a hospital on my block
so the block is closed; you need photo id to get in. They aren't
taking blood, they are too swamped. earlier the block was half full
of doctors and nurses just standing around *waiting*.

the real horrorshow has in a sense barely started -- they still won't
even let the firefighters into the site. Typically 20,000 people
work in the towers, but it was a little before 9 when it started so
not everyone was there yet. My friends and I are of course worried
about the backlash. One comrade reported seeing someone scrawling
"##### islam" on a building, and she and others convinced him to cross
it out. One black man who escaped from the towers was shown on tv
thanking or beseeching Allah, which was nice. Gen Schwarzkopf was
interviewed saying "people want to 'get' someone, but there's no one
to get." Very sane but of course the politicians won't have it. Now
a few thousand other civilians somewhere will be made to "pay." Not
in my name. Workers of the world unite.

you probably know all this already but in case. Of course those of
you in israel are familiar with all this. Anyway thanks to those who
have been trying to get in touch and for offers of refuge in Canada!
I was supposed to start work at princeton tomorrow -- that has been
cancelled but will probably happen thursday.

peace and love

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As a note, this friend is Jewish and her father's from Israel, so she has particular sensitivity to the possible backlash.

GG, I hope you and your loved ones will be safe. Our prayers are with you
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"So what are my chances
of honest advances
I'd say low
Better to win
by admitting my sin
than to lose with a halo"
-Evita

...and I fully understand your need for a hiatus. Come back whenever you're ready. We'll be waiting for you with open arms.

Survivorerist
"Be safe"

Thanks so much DK for the info.

Yeah, GG is OK!!! Perhaps shaken and certainly up to his cute eyebrows in the current sucky state of "real life" but alive and well. Whew!

Dalton

Glad to hear GG is fine!! Thanks for letting us know, Kitty!

Jizzy

*toasts a Guinness to his favorite haggis-eatin' goofball*
Glad you're okay GG!!!!!!

Now...if we just hear from MOOOOON, we'd be doing good!

DK, thank you so much for posting this! And to GG, take all the time you need away from the boards to rebuild your life in NY; we understand completely and will await your return patiently.