These are two brand new houses on White's Road, just across from Kellar St. I know these families aut to be very happy. They are truly blessed to have such nice houses built for them.
.......................................................................God Bless.........................................................................
Top picture is whats left now of the store and house that was there.
This is the store and house after Katrina hit. It's also a half of a trailer that they had to cut because it was blocking the road.
The trailer that was cut in half came from the left side of the restaurant below. Which was on the other side of 604, and down the road a bit !
Things are never going to be the same in Pearlington again !!
.............GodBless....................
This is whats left of the Houseboats now, they were on old Hwy.90 going South, just before the Right turn onto Freemo into Slidell. They were in the Pearl River. In the middle picture thats what Katrina did to them. Now they're sitting in a pile on the side of the road waiting to be taken away. Alot of things, well I guess everything, is never going to be the same around here.
..God Bless..........
This is ,or was the store just across the green bridge, just over the Ms.-La. state line. It was in La. They were there for many, many years. They sold Lottery tickets, so people came from miles and miles to get their lottery tickets there. It was the closest store to go for the Lottery, unless you went to Slidell, or some place else in La. It's sad, I guess they'll never rebuild. It looks like soon the Pearl River will just take it completely over. ..................God Bless.........................................
Well it wasn't the best I ever had, but it's what we did. Will had to work all night on Wednesday, and didn't get home until 6am. And I was up all night , so neither of us went to bed until 6:30am. We had been invited to several different friends houses, and Laginappe Church in BaySt.Louis had called and invited us to their dinner also.
But Will had to be at work again that evening at 6pm, so we just didn't feel like going thru all that. I didn't feel good, and him either. I'm sure I had phemonia, and didn't go to the doctor and am still trying to get over it. Anyway he woke me up around 2:30pm, and asked me if I thought the AeZ Serve was opened. I said yes probably, call them. So he did, he ordered us each a pizza, and for dessert got us some ice cream. It did the trick, and we were together so thats what mattered. So later he went off to work, and I talked to family members, and lazed around. So it was a quiet day.
...................................................God Bless...............................................
Pictures in Pearlington.
I'm hoping to have another nice day or two so I can mossy around and try to get some pictures. There have been alot of changes around here , and other places too. So be watching for them.. Maybe as soon as tomorrow !!
The picture with the well thing, now has a new trailer there. I'll get a picture so we can compare them. Nov.25th, at the top.I got the picture. It's the one with the trailer and the well. So they now have a new home! God Bless them. ...................................God Bless................
Well the guys are back in Pearlington from Charlottesville, Va. The ones that are building the sheds for people here, "Sheds of Goodness", that I talked to a while back. I know I've been on that list for a long, long time, I signed it at the Recovery Center.. I stopped the other day and asked them will I be getting a shed, and I wasn't surprised when he said, "NO"
I just can't figure... Some people have two sheds?? I thought the elderly and the disabled were getting some sort of recognition for things? I can't help it that I became disabled at the age of 41, almost 12 years ago. People don't realize that I live in CRONIC PAIN every day of my life, and have to take STRONG Pain Pills everyday just to cope with everyday things. But people will look at me and say "Whats wrong with you?" I wouldn't wish my pain on my worst enemy , but people need to realize when you get Social Security Disability , you are Messed Up, HURTING. Well most people, some of them do fake it and can go just as if they have a regular job everyday, but yet they can't work!! Ha, I wish I could work. At least then I'd have some HOPE of having a house again before I die..............
...........................................God Bless.............................................
This is a wonderful lady. She came down here to Bay St. Louis a week or so after the Hurricane and couldn't believe what she saw. She went back home to N.J. and got a U-Haul and packed all her stuff and came back here, with her son Tony. She gave all her belongings to the Hurricane Survivors and moved into a trailer, and started helping people. She is a Gulf War Veteran. She retired, but says she still has the Gulf War syndrone. But doing this is medication for her. She wants nothing in return, and takes nothing in return. I say they need more CC White's in this world. God Bless her, I know she has a very special place when she goes "HOME" to the Lord. I know she will receive ten times fold what she has given to others. She should run for PRESIDENT of U.S. !!
Please look at her web site, it's very moving. The pictures and the little girl will bring a grown man to tears.
http://www.ccherehope.org ................God Bless.............................
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY !!!
I hope everybody has a day off from the hectic life we are enduring here in this raveged land. I hope you find some peace somewhere in all this choas. If you are able to enjoy the holiday with your loving family and friends, then God has blessed you and given you a great gift. Or if it is just you and your mate, thats a great blessing too. I know I've spent a few Thanksgivings and Christmas's by myself. It's not a great feeling. One Christmas Eve I put the television on a channel that had a fireplace that filled the whole screen. It had a beautiful fire going , and made me feel so warm and cozy and home sick. I lay there for hours watching that fire, crying, and wishing things were like they used to be when I had a big , fine, family growing up. But things don't stay the way they used to be. If it did then there would be no tomorrow's or yesterday's.................
..............................................God Bless..............................................
This is the last Palm Tree among a group of three that grew along the roadside going to the boat launch at Logtown. I can remember seeing three of them years ago, "25"or so years ! They had to be about 40' tall or maybe more. I'm sure they had to be old also. Probably some of these old timers around here could tell me more about them. Or there might be something in the book they did on Logtown, if anyone still has the book. But this is the last of them! She stood thru many storms, blowing winds, and freezing winter nights. If only she could tell us stories of what see saw standing so tall looking at things for miles and miles around her. There is alot of History concerning Logtown. I've seen a White headed Eagle going down that road. It flew from tree to tree all the way down the road. It would fly 50' or so, then sit on a limb, then it would take off after a minute or so, and fly to the next tree. It just kept doing that for at least a good mile. It was beautiful. I wished so bad I'd had a camera with me.I've walked those woods and found alot of old bottles and peices of china. All kinds of stuff where the old homesteads were. I know where a Judge is buried there too. Judge Freeman Jones, I think is his name. I used to go there and put flowers by his headstone.I hope Katrina didn't move his headstone. When we found it, it was turned over, so we stood it up, and put some bricks around it. Katrina sure was a destructive Bitch. All the devestation she did that you don't really think about or see.It's a shame she had to take the last PalmTree..........God Bless..........................
LIFE AND FRIENDSHIP
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return; just wait for it to grow in their heart but if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Don't go for looks; they can deceive. Don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.
Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.....
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives...When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying......
Please tell the people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you are really down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship, and their love, and standing by your side.
.......................................................God Bless.............................................................
These are Newspaper articles of people surviving the Hurricane. And photos, alot of different articles on the hurricane, mostly in N.O. and Louisiana.
http://www.nola.com/Katrina
...................................God Bless.......................................................
This is a Guest book of the people that lost their lives during Katrina.
http://www.legacy.com/nola/katrina.asp? or www.legacy.com
.............God Bless the families and friends of these people..........................
May they rest in peace. You can sign the "Katrina National Guestbook", for the people that lost their lives due to Katrina, and Rita. And you can also look up a person if you knew someone that died.
In the Legacy.com they list newspapers across the U.S., for the obituaries and also records from the Social Security Death Bureau . Here they also have deaths from September 11,2001.
And also Military personnel that were killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. You can add people or search for people and sign the Guestbooks for free.
..........................................God Bless..............................................
This is really neat ! It's a video drive thru with a 360* video camera mounted to the roof, and you can pan it around as it drives thru the rubble as if you were really there !! It requires flash and the latest browsers to be able to use it. Boy the things they are coming up with these days, the new technology is great !! It has alot of different things to look at. Some of them are: The Bay bridge, A Soldiers mom, The casino Magic, A tour along the beach, tours of streets around the beach area, The Court House, The Old Houses, Fema trailer parks, It's just amazing to look at all the videos. Hopefully it will give you a better insight of what its like around here.
http://risingfromruin.msnbc.com/tour.html?roadzoom13btn3
I hope you are able to use it. Hopefully it will give people a better look at the devastation here on the gulf coast. ...............God Bless............................
Well now the Recovery Center came out the next day and says they made a mistake.
Yes, the church is giving the $250,000 but it's designated for ten families. So that isn't anything new !! Figured there was some kind of catch to it. But I wonder why he doesn't post that on the Pearlington Recovery Center web page?? He just sent out up dates in emails?? In a web page or a blog or any writing it seems like he would have all the details right before it's written. In fact I just copied the email and added it here! So ?? It's from Canada Jon, Director of C.O.D.R.A.
.................................God Bless............................................
Good morning, All,An important note of clarification concerning the American Baptist Churchgrant to Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in Pearlington:Like ALL grants, there had to be a very specific application made in orderto receive the money. Projects had to be pre-identified on the applicationand the funds granted are NOT open-ended or available for anything otherthan the projects identified in the application.These funds are designated for 10 re-building projects currently beingundertaken by Charlie Holmes and CBF in Pearlington. Under the terms of thegrant, these monies may not be used for anything other than these 10projects for which the grant was earmarked.CBF will continue to search for sources of additional funds and requestsyour patience and understanding in these matters.Thank you,Jon White,Director, C.O.D.R.A.
Well I've been doing alot of research. Boy it takes a huge amount of time to look at blogs and research things. I never really got into as much really deep research on my computer that Katrina took from me, as I do on this one now. But now all I do is research on Katrina, and Katrina related things. My blog, and the hours I've got in here on it are unbelievable also. I do have to unwind every now and then and go play my games! Thats mostly what I used to do. And pictures !! I had well I don't know how many thousands of pictures I had on my Katrina computer. But it was a whole lot !! And me like a dummy should have at least took my tower with me, but no room for it. And I'm sure it would have just burnt in the fire. Oh well...
Anyway I read in the Pearlington Recovery Center blog yesterday that two people came here a couple weeks ago to look at our town. They are involved with the Presbyterian Church Group of the USA !!! I hope I have that right!!!!!! And they are giving the residents of Pearlington a $250,000 grant to help us get some things going around here. I know it's all the praying we all have been doing . I know there are people that still do care and want to help!! It's just "TOO BIG" of a tragedy and so wide spread that it is going to take some time. But God Bless these people and Thank-you Jesus for the blessing !!! They don't know the details on it yet, but I know and finally have a good feeling in my heart that things are going to work out and it will be ok. It still may take a while but now I truly feel it and believe.
.................................God Bless...................................................
I came across this video site and it's a good site!! Lots of videos. Not only on Katrina, but on lots of subjects !!
http://www.youtube.com/ if you want to go there and pick your video subject
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query-Katrina if you want to go there and look at katrina videos
...................................God Bless..........................................
