Gulfport, Mississippi - 4 months later

[RandySmith]

I went to help out some family some more in Southern Ms, over the holidays, and took a drive down to the coast. Wish I had the time to spend a week there to get some "human interest" photography on the rebuild/clean up efforts.

http://www.fototime.com/inv/04C26979AAE83DA

Randy

[Liz]

Thanks for posting those Randy. It's easy to forget the other areas that were so badly affected by katrina :( So many wonderful memories I have of vacationing there as a kid, and then taking my kids when they were old enough.

[RandySmith]

Liz -

The thing that affected me the most this past week, was seeing how much destruction was done, and how much still looks like the hurricane hit yesterday ... across the state.

Here's some other photo's the day/week following the hurricane. The reason there's so many individual photo's, is that the community where I live donated enough money so we could deliver 500 gallons of gasoline to the rural farm area in Mississippi. I exchanged 5 gallons of gasoline for their generators for a picture. I created a 16x20 poster and created a collage of the faces to "thank the community" to which donated the money for the generators. "We" delivered gas out to some really needy families that were in pretty dire straights by the time we arrived. Electricity was out in some places for a month, a generator will only run for about 2-3 days on 5 gallons of gas. This was truly one of my most favorite lifetime adventures, and feeling of accomplishment.

http://www.fototime.com/inv/51C01DB7F6DC306

Randy