Blogs from Biloxi, Mississippi, United States, North America - page 3

Day 41 - Tim Hits The Jackpot ! Good Morning !! Well, it looks like I survived the 21st floor last night and I'm just praying that they will keep their word today and move us down a little closer to the Earth sometime before night fall. We finally made it to the room around midnight last night and we both just crashed !! That was a very long Birthday drive yesterday, but we were here now and we were definitely going to make the best of it. We got up this morning, well, actually it was afternoon, we showered and headed downstairs to check out everything. Just as we suspected, it was exactly the same as all the times before, except this time we hoped that all the money would be going into our pockets ... read more

So it’s been an exciting couple of days... Well, I made it back to Biloxi after spending some time at home for the holidays. It was great to come back to a place that we were familiar with and to see my team after our time apart. Since we’ve been back I’ve been doing numerous tasks at work the past couple weeks. I have tyveked a house, fire blocked, installed doors, windows and a floor and made window frames. Construction is very hard work and I admire people who do this for a living. I don’t know if I could last more than 8 weeks. Heck, if I wasn’t a volunteer, I probably would have been fired a while ago. Its not that I don’t try, I try very hard; I just don’t have the perfection/patience/skill ... read more

Well since I showed you the pictures of Biloxi in one of her worst moments, I though it only fair that I show her thriving also! These pictures are from my trip back to Biloxi in August 2007. I was only there for 2 weeks this time, but that was enough time to enjoy the city. The change was astonishing! Some things were still being repaired, but this time there was at least something to do! The first time I went everything was closed except the mall...the only thing to do was to volunteer in the clean up efforts. This time though a lot of the casino's were opened back up, the beaches were open, the piers were rebuilt, the bridges rebuilt, the grass and trees were regrown, and it was beautiful again! The Hard Rock ... read more

9 ... great number ... odd number nine bucks can get you a pretty nice lunch from Subway nine days on the other hand will land my in Germany the ticket cost around $300 ... only slightly more then nine?... read more

6:20PM Second day of Hurricane Katrina relief/cleanup. I was hammering all day. We were taking plaster off walls of a few rooms in the stadium that the Salvation Army wants to turn into some form of bedrooms. We used sledgehammers and pickaxes and hammers all day. We also took a walk midday. Talked to some people. Went down a road by the stadium. (Today, I realized the stadium lights at the end of the field have been blown to an angle.) These are the things I saw spraypainted on houses/signs on houses: "Katrina Sucks," "Surviving Katrina: Priceless," Tresspassers will be shot," "Looters will be shot," "No flooding," Insurance company names "State Farm," "Nationwide," others, addresses, phone numbers, family names, and the strange markings of the national guard, numbers of dead, animals found, etc. Things on the ... read more