Jay W. wrote:

> Finally, managed to find out how Gentily stood up to Katrina.
> 1st off my house was totally destroyed the storm blew off and
> collapsed the roof in the room my computer, books, rpgs, etc. were
> keep. The flood waters destroyed the rest of the house.
> As of last Thursday they still had water in the house. My dad had
> to get the police to break open the front door. The flood amd storm
> thew stuff from several rooms against it so it couldn't be open.
> The house is right now unsafe to enter. The police went in and
> snapped a few pics of the inside of the house for my dad with a
> camera. It looks like someone set a bomb off inside. The only
> things I have are my Feng Shui rpg stuff and a few clothes that I
> had taken when I evacuated. Everything else has been destroyed.
> The most of the houses in the Gentily area are like my house.
> The polution from the flooding may have also made some parts
> unihabitable in the future.
> The Blockbuster in the area was looted along with the shops near it.
> The entire city has a nasty smell to it and they have very little
> plant life growing.

Sorry to hear about your house and RPG collection, where are you
holed up now?

Gentilly was one of my favorite areas of town, I'm very saddened
to hear it was so badly damaged.

> UNO is hopping to have its campus reopened in December.

I'd called up UNO's (my undergrad alma mater) web site last week
to see whether they were up and running. I hope they CAN reopen
that soon.

> P.S. I need to find out how much a Ringworld RPG and companion are
> worth for insurance puposes some time in the future. Mine were mint
> to near mint. Counter sheet not cut up, dice in the book, and all
> the books and companion were signed by Larry Niven. I'm going to
> have to get an adjuster and go to court to get the replacement value
> for my RPGs, comics, some books, etc. in a few months and after that
> try and replace what I can.

I've seen good copies go for as much as $50-60 on eBay, the Niven
sigs certainly would add to the value.

Stephen Posey
slposey@...