Gustav Relief: Day 1

DAY 1:
We drove through the night to meet up with our fleet of Convoy of Hope trucks. After three checkpoints of local and state police, we met up with them 30 mile west of New Orleans. After flooded roads kept us from going to Houma, we landed in New Iberia, LA for distribution.

We are in a 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. curphew. We have 24-hour police security around our trucks.

No one in the community has power or running water as of yet. Police are warning us of possible looting.

Our distribution will begin Wednesday morning. We expect non-stop traffic and need for the next several days. Convoy of Hope plans on being here a week. Our team will leave Friday.

Conditions are good. We have power via a generator connected to the Mobile Command Center of Convoy of Hope. We also have wifi through their satellite hookup.






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LINKS

Evan Courtney is also blogging our trip. CLICK HERE

Our Photos are here.

Our story is published here.