Need Advice!! Please help!

My cat has been missing for 2 months. I have spent the past 60 days walking the neighborhood and calling her, putting up flyers, visiting shelters, and making phone calls all in hopes to find my little girl.
   
Here's the good news! I got a phone call yesterday from a neighbor telling me that they found my cat hiding in their garage. When they approached her, she ran into another neighbors yard and their dog chased her. I cannot even express how happy I am to hear that she is alive and well. However (here is the bad news), the problem is that I am 1000 miles away right now and I can't return home until Sunday.
   
I am so worried that she will disappear again before I arrive home and I feel so helpless. My neighbors said they would leave their garage partially open and leave food and water for her in there. I also phoned a friend who drove to my house and left my kitties favorite cat food and some water on a table in my backyard. What else can I do to ensure that she will be there when I get back!?

If anyone can get sight of her, they should sit quietly and talk very calmly to the cat AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
   
Bring tuna fish or very smelly canned cat food.
   
The food should be placed a couple of feet from them.
   
Continue to sit quietly, talking soothingly.
   
Let the cat come to them. Do NOT reach out for the cat, it will run.
   
Move very, very slowly so as to not startle the cat away again.
   
Move the food that's being left out gradually closer to the building. Eventually, move the food into the garage.
   
Make sure there's a box, crate or dark enclosed area the cat can hide in. Put food in it.
   
By this time, you'll probably be back & you can do this every night. You have to get the cat to calm down & recognize that there's no danger.
   
While you're away, it's best if this is done by someone the cat at least is acquainted with.
   
They have to treat the cat as if it were a totally strange, somewhat feral cat. Cats don't trust strangers easily, especially when very scared, esp. from being lost 2 months.
   
If the cat's being fed, it won't go far.
   
It's quite possible that an opossum or raccoon will be eating some of the food, but if it's put out during the day, it's more likely the cat will get some rather than the night animals.
   
Then when you get her back, go out and get her chipped & get her a collar and tag. And be careful not to let her out again, she's one of those cats that isn't equipped to deal with the world.
   

I would also have a friend or family member check the pound or local animal shelter if your neighbor doesn't see her again. My local animal control will only wait three days before they consider the animal theirs (and adoptable), due to space constraints.