News from Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian and Waveland

Transmitted by telephone 9/9 by Dr. Mark Banks


Did outreach work in some of the hardest hit areas - Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian and Waveland over the past couple of days. There continue to be amazing sites everywhere you look…. MASH medical facilities and surgery being performed essentially in parking lots….houses and cars that were in the middle of roads have been pushed out of the way into ditches…..there are several checkpoints which adds to the feeling being in a war zone.

Spending about half of the time at the shelter, and the rest of the time doing outreach. We have been transferred to barracks at an air force base. Good accommodations, my own room, bathroom and a laundry!

Stores are beginning to open although everything closes at 5 and there is a curfew at 7. There are miles of military trucks on the roads at any given time, but there are no traffic lights, so every intersection is a four way stop, with lots of traffic