Carol - messages of support

Surely some of the local people helping to search would have used this lane? I was expecting the car to be found in a very remote location.
If it is greatnan's car then at least we know she wasn't involved in an accident but where on earth is she??

I have been following this the whole way through. So many thoughts, if's and maybe's. Hopefully news soon.

It is difficult to understand why it has taken all this time to find the car when it is near Habère as one would have expected the police to start at the flat and move out in increasing sweeps. Still, at least it has been found now.

that is positive news..the car!

Oh I hope its a start of information coming iin.

Praying that the sighting the car is fruitful.

Main thread indicates that that the car has been sighted in a small lane. Let us hope this is the first chink of light.

It's awful, isn't it? Like you, Mamie, I felt as if I knew Greatnan too. It must be dreadful for her family, and for her GN friends who know her well. Thinking of you, When and Anno especially.

It's even stranger, because no one in the family understands how important our GN friends are, so it's a bit lonely!

Thank you. Fiona's comments made me sit up and think. That poor family.

I think we all feel the same LizG - as I said before, here on the Welsh border, if there is the merest hint that someone might be lost on the beacons, the local rescue volunteers are out in force immediately.

I can understand the police needing to ask abut the person's state of mind and abilities as they need to establish the level of vulnerability and how responsibly the person might be able to act. I can only hope that they have finally got the picture as to who she is and why everyone is so worried.

Sheer frustration indeed.

It does feel as though they dragged their feet at the start and it should not have been necessary for the family to fight for a search to be started.

Now that the proper steps a being taken we can only hope that they will bear fruit., and keep telling the family that we are all behind them and thinking of them.

phoenix, I think we all feel the same. The majority of us can do no more than share on Facebook the same things over and over again - just hoping that it'll get through to someone and 'click' with them. Also emailing wherever and whoever we can think of. And LizG, you most certainly aren't alone in feeling as you do, either. Sheer frustration......
granjura has been so good, doing what she's done and so have so many others.
There's nothing more we can do, other than hope. And also be realistic.

Liz, I know can't be the only person logging on in trepidation now.

No! It repeats what we are all thinking

Asked GN to remove my unhelpful post, so sorry.

I don't know Carol except through this site. And have nothing to add to the search except to say I have told DD to add a link to the page on her FB page. I just wanted to say Carol, her friends and family are in my thoughts. Even though I have not been posting here.

What if greatnan didn't have a concerned family to raise the alarm. What if she didn't have friends and cyber friends to badger the authorities and bring her disappearance to the attention of the media?

The alternative doesn't bear thinking about.

Every day I hope for news, but so far nothing. Greatnan PM'd me so many times, I just don't know what to do, apart from the emails to various etc.

Just read Granjua's interesting comments on the main thread and find myself getting very angry and frustrated with the French police, how those more closely involved must feel I cannot imagine. They seem to be making far too many assumptions about age, ability and the like. Also had they been a little less bureacratic then the search could have been started ages ago and checks on her bank accounts, etc could have been made.

I know this is not really being helpful. I know too that Things are happening now but it has taken huge efforts by some wonderful people to get the police activated. Sorry I just had to vent my anger at least it was me and not someone in the hub of the matter. i have probably totally got hold of the wrong end of the stick.

Update from granjura on the other thread.

yes glass we would.

whats your name on Twitter pen ? or am I already following you?

Have tweeted re Carol! need a tutorial and more followers though!

Sorry. Just noticed this is being discussed on the IMPORTANT QUESTION thread.

Quite a few threads to keep up with now.

If Carol's last communication via the internet (we now know she was using a different name to greatnan) was on Saturday and she was seen driving off in her car by a neighbour on Sunday, why was there no further communication for 24hrs? We know Carol was a regular internet user and like to keep people informed of her movements so why the unusual silence?

Well done gadabout 1st tweet, I added my first pictures of the posters to a tweet the other day, I am learning as I go