Things are a bit crazy down here but here a few first photos. More to follow.


The River Center in downtown Baton Rouge is housing about 1,000 evacuees, down from about 6,000 at its peak. It operates as a mini-city, under the direction of the Red Cross and with security provided by the Kentucky National Guard.




Ready meals provided by the Red Cross at the Calvary Third Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, stacked in a corner in a supply room. Reverand Freedman and the congregation are instead cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day for the 25 or so evacuees sheltered there. And they've being doing it for a month now, since the storm.




On the way out to a trailer camp being built 10 miles outside downtown Baton Rouge in an area called Baker. The telephone poles are new. A contractor called the Shaw Company was on site installling and outfitting the 573 trailers. The Baker camp is situated near a juvenile detention center, in an area with no public transportation and no commerce except a small gas station and one-stop store.




A few of the Camp Baker trailers. We walked into one that was somewhat bare but for a Bible in the refrigerator's vegetable drawer, a gift from the trailer manufacturer.