Hurricane Katrina Response Shipping Photos

December 8, 2005 - Dave Scarf (center) of Nebraska Harvestore Systems brought a large Bobcat to the Norfolk OGT offices prior to loading it on a semi-truck bound for the Gulf Coast. Transportation manager Clayton Andrews (left) and relief coordinator Dr. Aaron Walter (right) shipped it as part of a third convoy to Louisiana and Mississippi along with three forklifts and several pallets of tools. The equipment will help volunteers be more productive in their cleanup efforts.

The Bobcat will be used at the Atonement Lutheran Church relief center in Metairie, La.

The three forklifts make the semi-load complete. This load will be distributed between Metairie, Slidell, and Houma, La., as well as Ocean Springs, Miss.

"Relief for Human Need Worldwide."

Monday morning, November 7, 2005 - A convoy of five semi-trailer loads of relief supplies left Norfolk for the Gulf Coast as part of the continuing hurricane relief effort. The five semis carried LWML health kits, ladders, cleaning supplies, a diesel fuel tank, and other equipment necessary for the clean-up effort. Other necessities will be added to the trailers from supplies purchased in Saint Louis, Mo. by LCMS World Relief.

Each semi-tractor pulls a flat-bed trailer loaded with a 48-foot storage container. At the Gulf, each trailer will be unloaded at Metairie, La., or Biloxi, Miss. Once emptied, each 48-ft. storage container will be removed from its flat-bed trailer and placed on the ground, ready to receive future shipments. One of the five storage containers is refrigerated so it can hold frozen food. It will be filled with frozen food that has been donated in Saint Louis, Mo., by LCMS World Relief. This food will be used to feed volunteers.

Katrina Relief coordinators Dr. Aaron Walter (left) and Vern Steinman (blue jacket) join others to watch as a Katrina Relief banner is attached to the fifth semi-truck before the convoy leaves Norfolk.

Bernie Wrede, volunteer driver from Pierce, Neb., and Lloyd Dennert, volunteer driver from Columbia, S.D., confer before the convoy's departure from Norfolk.

Clayton Andrews, Richard Jostes, Vern Steinman and Aaron Walter join drivers Bernie Wrede, Belwin Herbolsheimer, Lloyd Dennert and Dave Pobanz in prayer.

The convoy as it prepares to leave for Biloxi, Miss. and Metairie, La.

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