"Common items made all the difference for some hurricane survivors"

George Pawlaczyk, reporting for the Sun Herald, describes how simple things like tupperware, a hedge and a knife saved peoples lives during the hurricane. Though it is not mentioned in the story, Pawlaczyk is a reporter for the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, a Knight Ridder sister paper of the Biloxi Sun Herald. He is among several Knight Ridder reporters who went to the region to help the Sun Herald.