My Journey: August 31,2005- in Pearlington

this is Rev. Sam Burtons church ,This is two houses pushed together below ,left, Top left is a trailer that came from across the road and hit that building, they cut trailer in half, it was blocking road.

This is our mail boxes now !
When we were trying to make our way into Pearlington, the things we saw were awful. There were houses moved blocks down the road. There was a mobile home trailer blocking 604 , it came across the road from the restaurant, pictured above. Our post office was completely gone. Houses just smashed. Our Chatholic church just gone. Houses rammed into houses, just damage and chaos everywhere you looked. Car's twisted and smashed. And the few people we saw were in total shock. We passed by the Reverand, Samuel Burton Sr. at the church above 1 blk. off 604, he was in a daze. We had a few small bags of potato chips, we gave him one. We asked if he was ok, he nodded. Later I learned his story of him and his grandson spending hours up in a fork of a oak tree.He's a wonderful story teller. He said he sang the whole time he was up in that tree. We know he wasn't ok, because we knew we weren't ok. Far from being ok. But we had seen enough for one day, so we headed back towards 43 to Terry's house. We wanted to get back before dark and the curfew. And everyone of us was hot and dirty and physically drained. And nowhere to get a bath, hummmm..........God Bless.............................................................................