Noting that two years has passed since the big storm - not that the media was going to let us forget - I killed some time trying to figure out how D'Iberville has progressed. Cheryl, Charles Marks, Scott Schaefer, Sharon LaTour and I spent five days or so helping to pick up the pieces around a small town just a few miles inland from Biloxi and the casinos in January of 2006.
I found some good news.
Ed Cake and Irene McIntosh are still involved in leading the efforts and are getting recognized for their work. Youtube has a video of Irene receiving an award from the AMHCA.
The Volunteer Village continues. It is still located at the baseball field we stayed at but I think folks have moved out of the plastic tents which PDA has relocated over to Ocean Beach and into the old army tents that had been housing folks without land. Volunteers now eat in the big tent - or at least did so until a big storm came along a few months ago. Here is another video highlighting the damage done.
There is now a website for the Volunteer Foundation itself where we can catch up on projects completed and still underway.
There are more videos and some stories and photos out there if one googles or youtubes D'Iberville. It isn't over - and help can still be put to work but I just want to leave y'all with this image taken at the other sports complex where the volunteer effort used to be headquartered.
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Thank you for that last picture link, all I can say is "Amen"
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