Today we got up at 7 am ate and ran. Arriving at the church at 8:30. Orange Grove is a "tent city" site for an organization called Presbyterian Disaster Relief Team (P-Dat) for short, we determined. I was amazed at the operation they have put together. These volunteers travel to Biloxi and surounding areas and gut homes and provide other services at no cost to people who sign up with the organization. I will be looking more into their efforts prior to leaving. They seemd quite able to mobilize the various groupls arriving for aid.

Roofing went well. We finished 7.5 squares out of about 30. "Square" is "roof speak" for 100 square feet. Not bad for our rag tag bunch. We returned for warm showers and Nick and I discovered the small coffee house which has free WIFI. I like!

I ran into George and Linda Bates from the previous night. We shared some additional comments, and encouraging words. Linda commented that she had not yet thought about "after" the clean up. It was neat to have been able to remind her tht there is a "after". Disaster relief will not be the rest of their lives, thoug at times it must seem as such.

During our travels today we witness much more of the devistation. We hope to branch out in future days to check out some of the more devistated areas we are hearing about.

Nick and I are late for dinner.