By Dave Rogers
Published September 29, 2008
OAK ISLAND – Diane Vice was back home, standing outside the church she grew up in.
Not that anything else about Oak Island looked like the town she remembered. Hurricane Ike took care of that a couple of weeks ago.
But one thing Vice knows all too well is the damage a hurricane can bring. The owner of Vice Construction in Moss Point, Miss., has spent the past three years rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina.
“I was raised here from kindergarten through sixth grade,” she said as she looked down Oak Island’s Oyster Street. “My father was a shrimper and we lived in a little house down the road. It burned and we moved to Mississippi.
“But you never forget where you came from.”
Vice returned to Oak Island over the weekend with six of her employees and an 18-wheeler crammed full of food, baby diapers and formula, second-hand clothes, chain saws and generators all donated by businesses in Jackson County, Miss.
The much-needed supplies were for the 500 or so Oak Island residents, all of whom lost everything the night of Sept. 12-13.
“We went through Katrina and it (Moss Point) looked worse than this. We have lots of employees who lost homes in that,” Vice said. “We’re survivors of a hurricane, so we know what it’s like.
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