Expedition 1: Katrina
Busy pulling my hair out trying to do several things at once--including reviewing, pre-processing, editing and post-processing/post-production on 500 images from the expediton..
The Carroll County Huricane Katrina relief drive delivered seven (7) tractor-trailer loads and a camper (approx. US$2,000,000.00 of stuff): five (5) trailer loads and the camper to Livingston Parish, LA and one trailer load each to Baton Rouge and Mississippi. Twenty-seven volunteers (not including me and the truckers) went on the relief mission.
They have another 150 pallets in a warehouse in Carroll County and continue to collect donations--planning for the second trip has already begun.
Actually rode in rigs on the trip: rode shot-gun with Smitty on the way down and rode shot-gun with Jim and Paula on the way back. (more on that later).
O/a 17:23 EDT 17 SEP 05: Joe Smith of Baltimore, a driver for Superior Transfer, on I-81 somewhere in southern Virginia driving south to Baton Rouge.
O/a 18:38 EDT 20 SEP 05: Jim Ward of Westminster, MD drives back to Carroll County after delivering relief supplies to Lousiana.
O/a 18:39 EDT 21 SEP 05: Jim Ward with his infant daughter upon returning to Westminster, MD from relief mission to Louisiana
The Carroll County Huricane Katrina relief drive delivered seven (7) tractor-trailer loads and a camper (approx. US$2,000,000.00 of stuff): five (5) trailer loads and the camper to Livingston Parish, LA and one trailer load each to Baton Rouge and Mississippi. Twenty-seven volunteers (not including me and the truckers) went on the relief mission.
They have another 150 pallets in a warehouse in Carroll County and continue to collect donations--planning for the second trip has already begun.
Actually rode in rigs on the trip: rode shot-gun with Smitty on the way down and rode shot-gun with Jim and Paula on the way back. (more on that later).
O/a 17:23 EDT 17 SEP 05: Joe Smith of Baltimore, a driver for Superior Transfer, on I-81 somewhere in southern Virginia driving south to Baton Rouge.
O/a 18:38 EDT 20 SEP 05: Jim Ward of Westminster, MD drives back to Carroll County after delivering relief supplies to Lousiana.
O/a 18:39 EDT 21 SEP 05: Jim Ward with his infant daughter upon returning to Westminster, MD from relief mission to Louisiana