Thursday, September 08, 2005
Bay Saint Louis - Houston update
Message from Cindy Cady via Bay St. Louis:
"Thank you all for your continued support. The Houston rescue team is becoming well known in the disaster area. We are still at the Stennis airport and are now surrounded by 7-10,000 troops. Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has set up its headquarters here.
We are now, with the help of our friends, able to fuel autos for the Stennis airport employees as well as friends and relatives who cannot get gas and need to leave, not to mention our own rescue vehicles.
We have received about 150-200 boxes of medical supplies (tetanus, insulin, antibiotics, and lots of first aid material) that are being flown in by private aircraft. We continue to receive these daily into Stennis.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
We have many doctors and nurses through our friends in many states who have volunteered to come here for a few days at a time but cannot get clearance from EOC. Some have been told by EOC that it is because they have no available housing. We can house approximately 20 at a time at our base camp. If you are willing or know someone who is willing to come, contact me thru my home phone, 713-877-1462, where I will be checking in for messages and speaking with my family there who are manning communications.
We also have a need for a pharmacist, who can help categorize, label and organize the medications we are receiving from Huntsville. If anyone is interested, please contact us at 713-877-1462 and get us your contact information.
We have cots, bedding, toilets, showers, food, water and transportation at our base camp, which is set up in an open warehouse/private hangar on the airport property in the middle of all the troops.
If anyone would still like to make a donation, additional cots would be appreciated. If anyone has a washing machine, that would also be greatly appreciated. Those are the two most important things needed for the Houston camp at Stennis Airport. We have trucks going from Houston to the base camp almost daily, so delivery should not be a problem.
Anyone who is traveling from the east to the coast should know that the I-10 Bridge over the Pascagoula River is one lane and moving very slow.
Bay St. Louis and the Mississippi Coast area not experiencing the same problems as you are seeing with the media. The media here are very helpful and friendly and doing anything they can to help others."
// posted by BWYC member @ 6:05 PM 
