I have heard from Apostate,
Considering the circumstances all is well with him. We exchange emails privately and I am forwarding his latest to you all. In order to preserve confidentiality I have omitted names and family references since we are an unusual group.
Helmut
The sanitized text of his email follows:
“Have been without power since the night of The Superstorm. But I live on the highest elevation in NYC we did not flood. Thank (insert deity here) that we don't live in Hoboken.
I type this from the nearest local public library that's open, charging up my laptop along with about 40 other people. But bottom line, we're inconvenienced but otherwise fine. I'd be obliged if you could forward this message to interested parties.
And I trust all is well out by you. We're all going to be cleaning up from this mess for months if not years.”