Update from Lafayette

Transmitted by telephone 4.30pm 9/7 by Steve Pernicka

Still in Lafayette, Louisiana and it is really hot; 101 with 98% humidity, I am working and sweating then sweating and working!

Here at the Cajun Dome things are moving into a steady rhythm for the 1,000 people I am working with at the Convention Center. Folks are starting to mellow and it is a fairly positive environment. Pizza Hut just brought in a bunch of trucks and served 100's of Pizzas at lunch time...people loved it. I am working in a supervisory role making sure everyone gets feed, including all the police and city workers who are helping us out at the shelter. In fact we are going to line up all the ERVs on the main street tonight to do a hot dog and bean bake for all the people in the community who have helped us along the way. They have been great!

For all the people who are wondering, I still have the private suite at the Church, nobody seems terribly disturbed by my cot and gear in the big broom closet during the day so I am sleeping great at night. Gotta run, thanks everybody.

Steve