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Journey to A Rainbow Second Helpin’

As we arrived in Mississippi at the beginning of December it was evident 150 miles from the coast that much damage was wrought when Katrina danced her way inland. Waveland was on the eastern side of the eye of the hurricane.
Meteorologists know that as the most powerful section of that
type of storm. As the storm made landfall Katrina brought 9 tornados,
sustained… Continue

My mate and I spent 2 years in Waveland MS. Just after Katrina, I made many close friendships in the General public, Mayors office, Fire department, I stand
witness to both the good and bad that can happen to, with and
after a large scale disaster. I have seen the joy of grateful
mommas and poppas, and blessed with almost daily miracles. Smiles
where t

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Down but not Out…

During our short time on the lot in Bayside Park we made many good connections. One that I will remember for the rest of my life was Charles Clements. Everyone called him “Cappie” because he had once been a longtime Captain of his own shrimp boat. Later in life he owned a marine repair shop that he lost during Katrina, but he was still known by everyone as Cappie. You can read his amazing survival story in the book “Hell and High Water”. Cappie was 71 at the time and he let Mo… Continue

Caution: This part of the story isn’t very fluffy and deals with the struggles we came upon in the beginning days of the camp. We didn’t see the Rainbow magic often at our humble start.



We pretty much hit the ground running, we found ourselves having to serve food to the public within hours of arriving. We had not planned for what was about to happen so we simply started out the Rainbow way.

The sun shown beautiful on the grassy lot that we had landed the evening before. Momma set to working… Continue