Today is very dreary and I have noticed that a gloomy day seems to be when I write about the storm and the way most of us are living many months after Katrina's landfall There are tremendous problems here that seem insurmountable. We are a people that have such needs that we have been reduced to begging for huge amounts of money to put our bridges back, help us with suitable housing, rebuild our schools and our churches. We pray that more industry comes into our area to give employment to the many unemployed. We pray for our senior citizens who are at a disadvantage to overcome because of their advancing age. Last but not least, we pray for our children and grandchilren that they may rise above the seemingly insurmountable and bring back their heritage, Mississippi. We are a small town and places for people to live have been reduced drastically. The pic below is of a condo at the end of Martin Avenue just before turning onto Beach Boulevard.

Several pics depicting how bad the housing "crunch" is are shown below. There are thousands of trailers in the Pascagoula/Moss Point area. A short ride north over the Moss Point bridge takes you to Escatawpa where thousands more dot the landscape. Travel west over the Pascagoula bridge and you arrive in Gautier to find more "Fema" trailers tucked into the serene wooded areas of that city.

I think about the bad reputation that "trailer parks" have had over the years. Each state have had incidents where they banned or sued over the placement of trailers in their neighborhoods. How petty we humans are. It never crosses our mind that disaster can place us all in that position. Please understand that I am not talking about beautiful double wide trailers, I am talking "Fema". They are small and cramped. The sleeping arrangements in most of them are like shelving in a pantry. Should I say that some people are actually too large to fit on the "shelf"?