Hi to all. It is friday morning and most everyone is working at the sites . Some are working at base camp and cleaning up and building another bedroom. The weather is very comfortable out today. This picture is taken a few mile from a town named Buras. It is located 90 miles southeast of New Orleans. Yes almost in the ocean. It is very close to the end of the Mississippi river. Levies here have kept out the ocean since the early 1900s. They did not fail this time but the water came over the top. A storm surge high of 14 feet plus very high winds tore the areas into sticks. Small sticks.
The government says 4 people died but the locals say that is correct if you don't count the vietamese people. The damage is sever and power is still out in alot of the area. The mds site we are trying to setup has not power yet except small generators. All primitive camping sites are open. very open. Jo and me have been asked to fill in from the first of feb to around the middle of Feb. We will need much prayer. Some men are back trying to find there scrimp boats while most of the rest of the family are many hundres of miles away . Just what you need when you are looking at your empty lot or afew destroyed remains.
We don't yet know if we will have volunteers or not but we know the lord will provide. Once we are in the area we may not get a chance to post much for awhile. Things are going very well here in Bayou La Batre and much work is happning. Atleast 12 fema trailers have been sent to other sites which is always a wonderfull time. The clean up here is well along and the panic has subsided some. Still many not in there homes but most are staring to get out of tents and moving into fema trailers. We are sending the first week gang home at noon today and look forward to new recruits next week. All healthy so far. Luv you all Ker and Jo