Chris Blissett was among a group of a half dozen dock workers who were placing planks along the Bay St. Louis beachfront. We stopped to ask them about their efforts to rebuild, the steadiness of their work and how each of their homes fared in the storm. “I’ve got the FEMA trailer park,” Chris told us about his front yard, where he and his extended family live in three trailers. We asked to pay a visit, and told him we’d drop by a couple days later.
Work for Chris is going well. He says they can’t build the docks fast enough. But things aren’t going quite as well for wife Crystal, who was about to tidy up her trailer when Eric, Beth and I stopped by. I couldn’t imagine living for any extended period of time in there, let alone with a young family. She told us that Chris is happy so long as the place is cleaned and dinner is ready when he gets home. That seemed like quite a challenge, as nine-month-old Colten threw oranges across the room and happily tried to wreak havoc on anything he could grasp.
Crystal knows they need more space with another baby on the way, and she is trying to move the family about an hour north, but Chris can’t imagine leaving a steady income behind. But all you had to do was look around the FEMA trailer to believe Crystal when she said she had no idea how they could survive in there with another newborn.
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