My Journey: August 16, 2006: another day........

<- store in La. just over state line.

Yesterday I looked at the MSN homepage. There was a link on there for msnbc. They are doing a special report on two towns in Mississippi. The towns are BaySt.Louis and Waveland. Which they are about 15 miles east of Pearlington. Pearlington is right on the coast just before the Louisiana state line. When you leave Pearlington going west, if you go over the green bridge your in Louisiana. In fact there was a small store there until Katrina hit, and they called it Pearlington, La. Slidell,La. is about 10 miles west of us. Alot of people even from this area don't know where Pearlington is. I think they get it confused with Pearl River County, La. Thats why we have so much trouble being recognized here. This town has been over looked bad by the government, especially Fema. I'm so glad that God has sent his Children, our brothers and sisters here to help us. If it wasn't for them I"d hate to think what shape we'd still be in. Which alot of us still are but I know they can only do so much. Most of them have so much compassion. You can feel it and see it in them and know they do by the things they do for us. Laurie the manager at the Pearl Mart is from N.Y. and has been here since Feb. {I think} She works her fingers to the bone. 24...7.. she is working. And 2 residents from here are the managers also. The Red Cross left us, and they were going to shut the Recovery Center down. Thats when the residents stepped up and said they'd take it over. Or it would be closed now. Our town is unincorporated. We don't have a mayor or nothing. So I guess the decisions around here are made by the three of them???? So it's up to them to decide who gets the help around here and who doesn't get any help??? !!!I'm going to try to put the link for them in here today. Ha, I'm not real great on some stuff, kinda learn as I go. When I first got a computer back in 2000, I taught myself, I cheated tho I bought the book for Dummies !! LOL But it helped me alot. I'd went to school back in 79-81 for Computer Tech... thats when my mom died, and my world fell apart. { the 1st. time} OK, here it is http://www.pearlington.blogspot.com thats for the recovery center. Now I want to give you one for the msnbc article, which has some great pictures too, Ok, here it is: http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/stories.html I hope I can still interest you all who ever might be reading this. I know their stories will be alot more interesting . There are alot of other survivor stories there that are just amazing. I have some Katrina experiences that happened to my friends that stayed here during the storm. There were 4 families that stayed that live on my street. My street only has I think 12 families on it. They are alot braver than I was to stay here. I think if I'd stayed I'd be dead right now.Will would have been sleeping because he worked nights, and I would have totally freaked out. Everybody that stayed had to climb trees, get on roofs, get in boats. Whatever they could do. And they all say one minute the water was 1" and the next minute you were swimming. And they said snakes, deer, alligators, rats, spiders, racoons, dogs, big cockroaches, fish, any animal imaginable was in the trees and water with them. Good God it gives me goose bumps just thinking about it. I'm glad the eye of Katrina came in the day time. I think if it had came at night there would have been alot more people killed...............God Bless...............