[ He smiles weakly and kinda messes with his fingers (though it doesn't rise to the level of actual hand-wringing). ]

Well, that's...
I don't have any family in the city. So I haven't been able to contact them anyway, and everyone disappearing didn't really change anything on that front. Ahahaha...

I really am grateful, though. Almost everyone's supporting each other and doing what they can. The people egging houses, too.