I didn’t notice what kind of power hurricane Katrina had until we first drove down the coast on Monday morning.  I think it was the first time the car was quiet while we were driving.  No radio, no one talking other then to point out things that we were seeing.  Houses gone, nothing but a slab of concrete left behind.  I first started to understand the power of this storm with this depressing devastation.

On Friday we went for a longer drive along the coast to see the four lane bridge which now looks like dominos going out of Biloxi. We drove past a barge the size of a football field and eight stories high that had taken out houses and buildings about a quarter of a mile inland. 

The last part of our driving tour through Biloxi was to a part of town were the clean up looked like it had only began.  Piles of debris were in the streets at least five feet high and who knows how long it had been there.  I wondered what I would do if I was in the shoes of these people who had lost everything and seemed so hopeful.  Lots live in trailers and will leave early in the morning to go help someone else who has it worse.  What an example of selfless giving.

In the words of Bishop Tom Rodi of Biloxi, “It is like filling a bucket with drops of water, it does not seem to do much, but over time the bucket will get filled.”  I know I was just one droplet of water and we need so many more to fill this gigantic bucket.

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