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ever, will forget the scene at the school gym and the refugee center at the school*
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helping direct traffic as additional roads arc opened, and trying to fend unnec-ccssary sightseers from the area. Gasoline is almost impossible to obtain for necessary and cmcrgcncy vehicles.
Some idea of the lack of communications between communities six to eight miles apart is gained from the pathetic crowding around of storm victims on the site with questions a-bout the safety and welfare of friends and relatives in nearby communities.
In their own misery, these proplc are still urgently concerncd about neighboring communities.
TRIP TORTUOUS
The trip from DeLisle to Pass Christian is tortuous because of washed out bridges and roads. You travel south of Adams Rd. across Wolf River at Adams Bridge (just repaired and put back into service last week), then south to the entrance road to Discovery Bay.The end of the Discovery Bay paved entrance connects through a dirt and slush road with the west end of Acadian Rd. This detour is not recommended for any vehicles except those with high clearance such as trucks. We had to stop and dry the distributor to keep our borrowed truck running once wo rcachcd Cuevas.
The Cuevas volunteer fire department building is standing, its fire engine halfway out the front door, but Cuevas supermarket is caved in.
Traveling south on Mcngc Ave., buildings are damaged or destroyed everywhere. Pineville school stands, and apparently is in use as an emergency dispensing station. Dixie White House Nursing Home had some damage, but the buildings appear to be habitable. The Pineville Presbyterian Church and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church are standing but damaged.
Mississippi Power crews are already at work trying to restore lines to the large transformer station a mile or so off the beach.
Pass Christian resembles a newly
occupied city of Europe during World War II. Most civilians have been evacuated for their own safety, and National Guard troops, Seabees, and harried state, county, and municipal officials and employees work around the clock with them in a massive clean-up operation.Chain saws buzz,huge bulldozers sweep the rubble ahead of them to clear the streets, military and utility boom trucks work at clearing and restoration of municipal services.
At the fire station on Second St., the centci of municipal and Civil Defense operations,men and women work as they have worked since Monday morning without sleep, clean clothes, decent food,handling each cmcrgcncy as it is discovered. Next door,the Fac tory Discount Store is being used to issue emergency clothing from tin. store’s stocks.
BEST, WORST SHOWN
The disaster ha£ brought out the best and the worst in men and women.
Rory Rafferty, the acting superintendent of city utilities,stays 011 his feet 18 or 20 hours a day, even delivering coffee and sandwiches to a few people in their wrecked homes who could not evacuate. Rafferty’s antebellum beach home has disappeared and his wife and tribe of kids are in a refugee camp upstate.Tom Anthony, who recently resigned as utility superintendent, is working away with the crew.
Alderman Clay Rick’s house between Scenic Dr. and U. S. 90 has disappeared completely, but he was on his feet Saturday at the firehousc. helping the work.May or J.J. Wittman has been everywhere, driving himself to help meet his town’s emergency.
The sharing by friends and neighbors and total strangers is hcartwann ing. Food, milk, water, clothes are voluntarily passed from hand to hand a$ the need becomes apparent.
The bad side of human nature is the looting, now under much better control.with a large number of troops stationed throughout the area. But, families have returned to the wreckage of their homes during the week to
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