formed disaster response center consisting combination café soup kitchen medical clinic donation center market operated free charge september december immediate mississippi cafe clinic founded response hurricane katrina provided free food free medical care hurricane victims months located tents parking lot street destroyed served free meals day thousands residents volunteers provided free health care patient contacts group christians came form unique group worked provide emergency relief impact katrina ocean county situated long history hurricanes county leveled hurricane county population vast majority population exposed harsh effects hurricane katrina hurricane katrina landfall gulf_coast august category hurricane town destroyed described worst punishment katrina official reports stated approximately people died hit directly eyewall katrina foot storm surge hurricane katrina came ashore high tide feet hurricane katrina damaged mississippi libraries total loss requiring complete rebuild cafe cafe originated friends rainbow family began communicate possible response aftermath hurricane katrina rainbow family best known rainbow gathering large primitive type camping event people attend attend gatherings skilled making serving food extremely large groups people long periods time basic situations cafe operated free charge supported solely donations cafe served meals times day volunteers built ran cafe attendees rainbow gatherings attendees cafe volunteers appeared look like reported clinic temporary emergency clinic set august housed tents stone skills emergency medical technician previous experiences volunteer coordinator order build clinic clinic recruited volunteer doctors medical students nurses different parts united_states volunteer week time medical tools donated dozens organizations including donated majority months operation clinic documented patient encounters clinic equipped staffed physicians specializing family medicine internal medicine clinic operated primarily walk clinic patients doctor complaints receive free medication lack functioning emergency room clinic utilized facility stabilize patient ambulance route transport patient emergency room closest hospitals miles west louisiana louisiana miles east memorial hospital mississippi local hospital hurricane ray blood laboratory available exception testing strips physicians described practicing battlefield medicine unit volunteers unique bond disparate groups formed result hurricane groups attendees counter culture rainbow gathering arrived time efforts led reverend colonel pete group represented different little common faith able aside differences focus entirely humanitarian efforts cooperation groups described unlikely bunch evangelical christians facilities buildings structures destroyed high winds flooding entire relief effort took place temporary tent based structures cafe housed large dome usually found burning man festival clinic originally started tents purchased supermarket weeks operation foot long foot tall tent donated erected month later additional foot long foot tall added
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