One of our sales reps who lives 200 miles inland from the Mississippi coast said power was available on & off, no gas for "hundreds" of miles and lots of trees down. We finally heard from her earlier today. On her own house the brick chimney collapsed. These were her last words in the email: "You cannot even imagine the devastation taking place over here."
I have heard of another story where a National Guard convoy was having trouble moving south from Meridian thru a national forest area where numerous huge trees had fallen blocking the road. They had to unload some of their heavy equipment just to clear the roads. Downed power lines and flooded underpasses also were hampering progress in getting relief to the coast area.
Not enough emphasis from the ground on how hard the terrain there is with the number of trees down.
How did the reporters get there? What roads? flown in? In since the storm?
You can't just "poof" move supplies through an area where trees and electrical lines litter your path.
The complete lack of education and facts within reporting today is staggering.