“Rita is starting to tease us. Well, not starting, it's been teasing us for well, over a day now with outer band stuff. Today it gave us a very heavy band that came through and blew over some tents and dumped a bunch of rain really fast. The gift from it, though, is a cool breezy evening. It's actually quite comfortable here in Lymon. We're still at the airport because the weather has certainly not been flyable. Plus, to fly back to New Orleans, excuse me, to Livingston Parish would take me back towards the storm, obviously not the intended goal of taking care of the airplane, so we wait.

Today the doctors went out, two different spots. We had one clinic in a little town who's name I have forgotten ... Poplarville! That's right, Poplarville, MS. Saw forty patients there today, approximately. We have plans to return on Sunday after folks have had a chance to tell the story to everybody they know and plan to have a significantly larger turnout then. The other group went to the Salvation Army clinic, I belive that was here in Gulfport, and saw quite a few patients, I think, a little over one hundred patients. It was an interesting experience. Started out with my group being told that they were not needed and ended with them being caught in the parking lot by someone else saying, "No, no! We need you!" Bottom line, they got to work. I'm really happy about that.

Tomorrow, the official landfall of the storm, we really don't know what to expect. We have one clinic that we're planning to have at a church. The plans are contingent on whatever the storm does, so around nine o'clock in the morning we will know what our day is going to hold, well, hope to know what our day will hold tomorrow. So, that's the current situation here in Mississippi.

Over in Louisiana, Dan Wrinkle is taking care of Dr. Gary Dotson and his wife as they do rounds to the various shelters in Livingston Parish making sure that the residents there are being taken care of. That is going well.

We have plans to make ourselves available as soon as possible to the victims of the current hurricane. We have a number of people, doctors and nurses, who will be driving down and at least one doctor flying down by Sunday to carry that torch. Hopefully by Sunday, the weather will clear enough to allow me to get back over to Louisiana and get back in the position of being able to help coordinate things there.

That's the excitement for us now. It's, again, a beautiful, very windy, low clouds evening here in Mississippi as everyone holds their breath to see what the carnage will be.”