Another update from my friend, Joan, who is in Mississippi helping with Katrina cleanup.
Greetings from Gautier! I started a response back ysesterday and my battery went dead and I lost it. Kind of appropriate for here since we lost electricity in one area of camp due to running too many cords.-----So since I've been here, the camp site manager, Lee, has been hinting to me
about needing a Supply manager. Basically you get nominated as leader for
anything here you're good at! It's a pressure system, people just kind of
keep telling you you're it until you concede -- ha ha! So my entire day
yesterday was spent setting up basically a distribution center for our
supplies, sorting through boxes and piles of stuff and determing what our
needs were and what things we needed to get to someone else to distribute so
it basically wouldn't just sit here and get ruined in the rain. Yes, we are
living camp style so you've got to keep the elements in line. In addition
to setting up a dining area for 30, some of the kitchen area, an office
space for Greg our Projects Leader, a First AID stand, and I think that's
it. I've got an Inventory Control Center, a WRITTEN SOP (have to copy DIRB
cause I know they'll get a chuckle) for buying supplies, a Logs person, and
a heap of stuff to get to the Baptist Church down the road that is acting as
a central distribution point. I can't wait to show you the pictures!Although I didn't go out and work on a house yesterday, I feel really good
about getting us better set for the months ahead. And no sooner than I took
down one of our 'illegal' close lines, a huge truck backed in (part of my
planning I must say) from Northrup Drummon (I think that's the name) and
said we got water and gatorade -- you need it? We we're like yes!
Fortunately a group of volunteers had just arrived and we made like a
military line and passed off the water to the newly designated space! It
was great! I've got to run, I'm getting pulled already...talk soon! And
keep us up to date on the tropical storm off the keys please -- I have my
cell and BB on.Take care!
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