September 21, 2005
I cannot believe I have been here so long! I worked 101 hours last week. Picture of sand in street:
Pam came up last weekend!
She took this of me!
Another picture of Pam.
The area looks like snow fell!
A house and pool.
A church and a barge.
The First Baptist Church of Gulfport:
Signs:
Missing road:
Boat ride anyone?
September 9, 2005
Here we are at ground zero of the hurricane:
A building
Wire to keep everyone out.
Steel did not hold this one.
Shopping center?
House foundation!
Jet ski?
Military cleaning up the beach. Hundreds of choppers too!
Rubble.
More rubble.
Flattened truck
See bark scraped from trees!
Road just gone from here on!
Semi smashed
Barge on HWY 90!!!!
September 7, 2005
We had a good weekend, went to visit dad and went kayaking. We also did some shopping for my trip. As I write this I am in the terminal at Tampa waiting for my plane to Atlanta. They have a wireless system here, free!, so I can get my email and surf the net. The FTP has been disabled though so I cannot upload this until later.
On “our spoil island” that we kayak to from out back I found about 100 “crucifixion” fish all over the island. I picked up a few (see below).
I went to Picnic Island on Monday as part of my work, I took the following pictures there:
A fiddler crab.
My car!
Where we are going to design a boardwalk.
This evening we will be getting together in Atlanta for an initial briefing, my plane does not leave for another hour so I have time. The limo picked me up early so I did not have time to do my last check and left some clothes behind. I had been working on getting my computer set up for dial up access so that I could use it in Alabama. My modem in my new computer does not work properly, so I tried to move my stuff to the old computer, but had not too much luck. What a panic at the last hour! I ended up abandoning the old computer and hope I can find either wireless or cable somewhere!
September 2, 2005
Hurricane Katrina
I thought it was fun, now it is not.
I have been watching the news closely for days. No more fun, this has become serious.
And now I am going to go over and see for myself – and maybe help. The company that has hired me notified me a few minutes ago that they are sending me to Atlanta on Wednesday September 7 and Thursday the 8th for a quick training, then I will be heading down to the devastated area on Friday September 9.
Wish me luck!
September 1, 2005
We are over here in Daytona Beach enjoying the sunshine. Pam’s daughter Natalie got married yesterday. Pam and Natalie did the whole thing themselves!! And it was quite the wedding!
www.herrickhomepage.com/wedding.htm
Weekend trip weather:
Amy and Darren’s weather:
Dad and Betty’s weather:
Susan and Al’s weather:
David’ and jeans weather:
Donald and jeanne’s weather:
Daniel and candy’s weather:
Heather and michael’s weather:
Rod and jill’s weather:
See you in Florida : 2006!
| 2006 | Darrell & Marilyn | 1998 | John’s Boat |
| 2007 | Dan & Candy | 2002 | |
| 2008 | Sue and Al | 2005 | David and Jean’s Housewarming party, Pocomoonshine Lake, Princeton, Maine |
| 2009 | John | ||
| 2010 | Donald | ||