“I'm recording this from Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. I flew over here today at the request of the team that was here. Flew by way of Slidell; stopped there and picked up a generator and finished the flight into a very nice little grass strip just north of Gulfport. It's an airport the way airports used to be, where you're treated like one of the family as soon as you show up; I'm really impressed with the place.

We are doing a change of leadership here. I believe I'll serve here in probably an advisory function for the next few days and make sure the nurse that we're training in to take leadership is able to handle the position before we have a group of doctors show up in Gulfport, excuse me, in Baton Rouge on Friday. At that time, we will probably have a good idea of what Rita is doing or has done, and we'll go from there. Rita is the big variable right now, predicted to be a Category 4 and currently projected to make landfall around the Galveston area or South Brownsville, Texas. So, we'll see what comes of that before we make any mass predictions.

That's about the extent of things right now. We have to have the ambulance back to Livingston Parish tomorrow because folks in Livingston Parish are preparing for the results of Rita. Should Rita cause any problems whatsoever, we expect an influx of refugees, excuse me, evacuees into that area. We may be back in business in exactly the same fashion as we've been for the last two weeks.

Having a few days off has been very nice, though; I'm definitely more prepared to be going back into it than I would have been had it been back to back. The operation that we've done in the Livingston area, now that we've done that successfully for two weeks, I'm actually looking forward to doing it again actually knowing what I'm doing this time. So, we'll see what comes of it.”