(Editor's note: This post is from an e-mail Maria Russell sent to her friends and family on Sept. 7.)
Our friends from Knoxville arrived, not only with a trailerful of supplies, but with the announcement that a television crew was en route with the sole purpose of focusing on Bay St. Louis. It seems that the media is fixated on New Orleans, Biloxi and Gulfport, but there is little mention of our little town or Waveland. This was the first time I really felt Hope. Not for Dave and me, but for all of the other people left homeless, jobless, and helpless by Hurricane Katrina.
We found the makeshift relief site that Sharon, our friend from the post office parking lot, told us about. Turns out it was a grocery store that had been in business only a few weeks. After the storm hit, the owners, Beverly and John Davis, just opened their doors to their neighbors and let them have whatever they wanted since there was no relief in sight. (The storm hit on Monday; when relief had not shown by Thursday, the police in Bay St. Louis broke into the Winn-Dixie and allowed people to get food and water. Hearing that was so unimaginable! Why wasn’t help here???)
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i am sorry please do not give up hope any one who lost i will pray for u.
heather lakeland fl (Sent Nov 17, 2005 8:23:05 PM)
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