EDITOR’S NOTE: Medical providers from the Eastern

Shore left Thursday in Wellmobiles bound for hurricane-

effected areas. One volunteer, Susan Delean-Botkin, a

nurse practitioner at FamilyCare in Easton, will send regular

updates on her journey through areas devastated by

Hurricane Katrina. This is the third entry in her Katrina journal:

"Well, guess who is in the Gulf Coast? Beaches, gambling,

jazz and Creole food. It is hot, hot, hot.

The Red Cross in Montgomery, Ala., did not know

what to do with (he huge Wellmobiles. They were sent to

Jackson, Miss., and then to Brookhaven, Miss. There are

serious communication problems between national and

local offices. Not a problem. The party people got on the phone. Who do you call

when you are in a pinch? 'Dad, call the churches. This is

this is South!' So a call to St Andrew's Cathedral in Jackson,

Miss., produced an angel, Dawn Fairness, a 15-year veteran

of organizing medical missions overseas.

"You have what? A million dollars in mobile medical

vans and how much medication? Honey, you come on

down. My husband wants to barbecue this evening. Yall

have dinner and stay with us and then wept go down to

the Coast tomorrow,* she told us.

"Fanness said there are two relief stations set up in

schools, in the Long Beach area, the other in Ocean

Springs. They are handing out MREs (meals ready to

eat), water, and supplies. People were not forced to evacuate

from the Mississippi and Alabama coasts. Many

stayed and many are returning to make sense out of what

was their lives, she said.

The hospital is out of commission with no water, no electricity

and lots of surge damage, *So, we have a lot for you

to do,' said Fanness. 'Come on over!'

"Home was looking real good about then. That night we

heard about the casino that landed on top of the Holiday

Inn; the surge that covered Wal-Mart; the bank that was

totally washed away except for the vault that is still stand-

ing. One woman looked out her back window to a low

spot and saw twelve bodies floating.

"I am afraid, afraid of what we will find and what we

won't There has been no electricity here in Jackson for a

week. It just came back on. This is hundreds of miles'

from the coast. There will be no electricity, no water.

"Oh, well. Well do what we can: T am but one, but I am

one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something;

What I can do, I ought to do. What I ought to do, by the

grace of God, I will do. Lord, what will you have me do?"

(Daughters of the King prayer)