Tuesday evening, March 13 - Today we had a very good day of work here in Pearlington, Mississippi. Our work crew of 5 continued with the home we were working on yesterday, for an older woman named Mary Brooks ... a real sweetheart. We have been putting up drywall, and see the light at the end of the tunnel on that project, as well as "mudding" it (filling the joints between sheets of drywall with a special compound). It's kind of a culture shock to be dealing with temperatures in the high seventies, after the single digits we were experiencing quite recently in Michigan! And, of course, the devastation here is staggering. We learned that the storm surge at the time of Katrina had water 17 feet deep covering Pearlington, and it didn't abate for 24 hours.