One of my friends has just arrived in Baton Rouge, driving from mid-state Florida all night with two other friends to get there. He had this to say:
We drove all night and took a detour through Waveland, MS. I have never seen anything like it. I was in NYC a few weeks after 9/11 and this makes that look like nothing. The whole town turned into sticks! Cars and boats in trees. Tent cities in the parking lot of a destroyed Walmart. The pics don't do it justice.
We gotto BR about 10am and went right to work deliver donated goods from FL to 8000 refugees at the River Center. We are unloading now but it is being slowed by imminent arrival of Governor.
More as it develops.
BK
I'll be posting more updates here from Brad and any other friends who are there on the scene.