On Gulf Coast, Thanksgiving Amid Scarcity

NEW ORLEANS - Debbie Shifter faces the daunting task of whipping up Thanksgiving dinner for 18 in the tiny kitchen of her FEMA trailer.

Shifter, who lives in Bay St. Louis, Miss., had to drive 45 minutes to find a Wal-Mart that survived Hurricane Katrina. Downsizing the ingredients to fit her compact oven, she will serve a 13-pound turkey instead of the usual 20-pounder. Because of a lack of counter space, she will do the chopping and dicing on two wooden TV trays in her living room.

Guests will eat outside at a plastic table on her lawn, or in shifts at the kitchen table. Dinner will be served on paper plates with plastic utensils.

"We done lost everything we owned, just about — except for us," she said, standing next to the ruins of the larger trailer home she once called home. "We're going to stick together at all of our holidays."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051122/ap_on_re_us/katrina_thanksgiving

making lemonade out of lemons......

God Bless her.......

Are you from there?

They all hate me, so I don't know if I'll spread any! Maybe as I leave. :-)

:-)

"Some hope the holiday season will help people in this hurricane-ravaged region reset their moral compass."

WTF!!!!????????????????

I am here, and I can tell you
there's nothing wrong with these people's 'moral compass'
what the hell what THAT about?

now, if you want to talk about the psychological compass, thats another thing entirely

the lady is cooking for 18 in a freakin FEMA trailor, suspect she has a helluva lot more heart and moral compass than most newspaper scribblers