Last week I toured Pearlington with Solodad O'Brien from CNN. The story looks at Pearlington five years later. It will be aired tomorrow nite (8/26) on Anderson Cooper 360 around 8pm Mountain Time. Thought you'd want to know. Not sure how much made the cutting room floor but it should be interesting. By the way we are still in Pearlington and while we aren't doing a whole lot we are helping out where we can as crews and money permits. Also our Rotary donated medical trailer is equipped and ready, should we have another storm, thanks to Carbondale, Stennis and Rotary International.
I've been working closely with our friend Paula Buhr from Houston. Between the two of us should we need to activate the trailer it will be staffed by volunteer emergency medical personnel.
We finished our last house in April.Capt. John's place. Thanks to the Greenwald foundation who funded nearly all of the construction we were able to help this elderly fellow.
People still contact us for help and we've had two volunteer groups in town since early spring. There is still some work to do as we've had to go back in and help some people with camp coastal houses that fell short of completion or were in need of repair due to low standards of construction.
We are hopeful that we do not have another hurricane now or in the future but I think we all know better. The up side is that Pearlington is better prepared to withstand another storm and the community remains strong.
Thanks to you all, this was truly an amazing team effort!!!
Tom D.
Mountains to Mississippi
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