The Vision Forum Mission Katrina team finished its reconnaissance work in Slidell, Louisiana today. After meeting for worship with local NCFIC families, they traveled to Mississippi to gather information and set up additional networks with local churches. The fascinating report of their trip to Slidell will be posted in a subsequent blog. Teammates Justin Turley and Peter Bradrick shot and forwarded the following images from where they had been working in Slidell.

Our team observed a good two mile stretch of land that looked like this...

...and like this, every inch of the way.

This car was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

One of thousands of cars apparently totaled by the wreckage of Katrina.

Some boats were picked up and carried hundreds of yards from their docks.

Even where houses were distanced from the 25 foot tidal wave that went through Slidell, falling trees took their toll.

The flag still waves, but little else.

The inside of the churches we visited were filled with a foul smelling sludge at least a foot deep.

This house is totaled, but it still stands. The houses around it were either smashed to nothingness, or picked up and carried hundreds of yards away.