Thanks ladies for the well wishes. When katrina hit, this area became a third world country. Finding just water, food and shelter was a major task for thousands of folks. Our county had a population of just over 40,000 before the storm and overnight we had grown by
150,000 people. About 30,000 have gone back to Louisiana.
Walmart closes at midnight, it used to stay open 24/7. Retail stores are slowly beginning to come back. Bridges are beginning to be finished along with roads. Schools are still being held in mobile class rooms along with libraries, police stations and the local governments, but they are under roof and operating.
We are surviving with all the help over these past 23 months. If it hadn't been for all the churches coming down here opening soup kitchens, bringing hammer and nails, and a tremendious amount of sweat equity, the homes that are built would not begin to be any where near finished let alone started.
Its going to take several more years to finish the job of clean up and re-building.
If you want to see our future leaders at work, you should see all these college kids. WOW!! They have spent their spring breaks down here. If any of you have come here or your kids have come to help us, WE THANK YOU so much.
To all of you that sent quilts down here during that first winter, you won't ever know the blessing you bestowed on those that received them.
With my stash, which by the way did not get destroyed, I am making quilt tops during these hot days of summer and hope to be quilting by Christmas. I will be sending them along to the QOV project for our young fighting people. I pray that my quilts WILL NOT wrap around your son or daughter but be donated to a nursing home for the elderly instead.
Kate T. South Mississippi