Sister City Greetings To
Waveland, Mississippi
October 2005

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100 Miles North we're seeing substantial damage.

These roads are barely clear.

Doyle Webb, Radio Shack and Donna Torres, Bay St. Louis-Waveland School District (center) as we unload items for the public school system.  Doyle Webb met us as soon as we entered Waveland and we followed him to each of our stops.  This was our first stop.  We delivered 7 computers, faxes, printers, school and office supplies, household goods and a real Perryton treasure...12 classroom sets of Hank the Cowdog books and audios complete with audio equipment.
 

Public School Administration Offices
 

Interior of new school administration building

Inside school district storage building



This is in the central part of Waveland, away from the beach.  Most structures that appear to have survived will be condemned.  Trash is EVERYWHERE. 



Many of the larger, more substantial buildings are just shells.


Trash, trash & more trash.  There are many trucks hauling off debris, but there is too much to keep up with.


Second stop, one of the two large relief areas that have been set up in large shopping center parking lots.  This is a picture of the supplies they are storing.


Relief Supplies.

The Rainbow guys are volunteers who have come to run the food preparation area of this relief center.


Relief volunteers, hospital facility on the left.


New Waveland General Hospital.  OGH sent a full pallet of medical supplies!  They were EXCITED!

Dana & Marlon with New Waveland Cafe volunteers.  Very interesting hairdos.


Unloading food and personal supplies at the relief area.


New Waveland Cafe and Free Market-serving 10,000 meals per day.  We took alot of food including the big hit...GRITS.  Heavy GRITS.

Hand sanitizing stations are EVERYWHERE the public hangs out.

Evening meal at the relief center. 


Medical volunteers at the New Waveland Hospital.


City employees are housed in a state park at the edge of Waveland near the beach.  The area is secure and there is an 8 p.m. curfew throughout the city.


New temporary street signs.  It is very difficult to get around as there are no street signs left.


Ron & Kathy Pinn in their temporary camper.  Kathy works for the Waveland Mayor's office and makes arrangements for efforts like ours.

This is the Pinn's daughter Betsy and her son Cameron.  Betsy's beach home was a complete loss..

Unloading supplies at the new City of Waveland offices and warehouses.


Waveland's new city hall.


Unloading supplies at City offices on Monday morning.  These strong young men followed us to our last stop and helped us unload there also.  They are members of Little Zion Baptist Church and told us they were meeting later that day to decide if they could rebuild their church.  We gave them a chain saw for their church.


Waveland's new Fire Department.


City of Waveland Office Compound


New City of Waveland Warehouse Buildings

St. Clare Catholic Church before Katrina.


St. Clare today, after Katrina.  Only the front steps remain.


This is the site of St. Clare now.  These buildings are the church, office, warehouse and classrooms.  This was our second stop on Monday morning.  We delivered many good supplies here including a computer, fax, printer, school supplies and household items.  St. Clare also received several classroom sets of Hank the Cowdog books and audios and audio equipment.


Barbara Landry with St. Clare.  Boy were they glad to see us!


What remains of St. Clare church, school & parsonage.


This lovely monument survived at St. Clare.


Waveland City Hall before Katrina.  Notice the tile mural lower right.


All that remains of City Hall.  The artist who created this beautiful mural plans to fix it.


Substantial Beach Front Home before Katrina


Same home after Katrina.  What is left of this home is in the pile at the left.


Ron and Kathy Pinn's home and business before Katrina and all that remains of it today.  The Pinns had every kind of insurance available to them and have not had any luck with their claims.

Piers on the beach before Katrina.


The Beach Front today.






Damage everywhere.





 

Even where partial structures remain, nothing is salvageable.








Entering the other relief area.




This is one of the markets where residents can come and shop for free supplies.  These areas are all staffed by Christian volunteer relief groups.


Cleaning supplies available to the public.


The "Facilities" available in public areas.  Most people have no place to take a shower.


The Radio Shack is behind this water purification system.  This entire shopping center has been condemned.


This is the inside of the same shopping center.  It looks pretty good on the outside, but the inside is ruined.


This is an area in the relief center where donated clothing is sorted and given to the public.





Residents said the Christian relief groups who came in and set up immediately after the storm saved lives, as they were there at least one week ahead of any government agencies.






Hand sanitizing stations are everywhere.


Residential area.  Complete devastation.


Donated clothing.  People were digging through it each time we passed by, but there are just no additional buildings to handle it.








Beach front property.  Devastation as far as the eye can see.

A symbol of hope!

Thank you Perryton for your kindness and generosity to our new friends in Waveland, Mississippi.