Folks,

Here's what has happened to our own USAF brethren at Keesler AFB, Gulfport MS (Biloxi, MS):

- Base housing was largely destroyed by a 25 foot wave

- There's 4 feet of mud in Maj Gen Utterback's house (2 AF/CC)

- MSG/CC house burned to the ground (gas leak caught fire)

- 6000 USAF members and their families are living in shelters

- The power will be out there for at least 3 weeks

- The 2nd largest USAF hospital (at Keesler) is closed

-- Seawater got into the generator and they have no power

- Commissary/BX mostly destroyed

- Runway is operational; it's the only open airfield in the area

- Day/VFR conditions only

- Gulfport Airport is closed for the foreseeable future

- The fence around the base is severely damaged

- Keesler had looters last night

- Maxwell AFB is sending an SF detachment to reinforce the Keesler SF

- Parts of I-10 are under water; at least one major bridge is down

- Keesler has almost no communications (landline or cell)

- They are relying primarily on radios