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Coastal Mississippi was just as fucked over by the local governments, FEMA, and the federal governments during and after Katrina so why didn't anyone really talk about it? The Emerald Coast is invisible when put next to what happened in New Orleans but some really horrible shit went down here.
Hurricane Katrina made true landfall in Mississippi not too far from where I am living now and the effects are still blatant and felt.
After making a brief initial landfall in Louisiana, Katrina had made its final landfall near the state line, and the eyewall passed over the cities of Bay St. Louis and Waveland as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph (195 km/h).[3] Katrina's powerful right-front quadrant passed over the west and central Mississippi coast, causing a powerful 27-foot (8.2 m) storm surge, which penetrated 6 miles (10 km) inland in many areas and up to 12 miles (20 km) inland along bays and rivers; in some areas, the surge crossed Interstate 10 for several miles.[3] Hurricane Katrina brought strong winds to Mississippi, which caused significant tree damage throughout the state. The highest unofficial reported wind gust recorded from Katrina was one of 135 mph (217 km/h) in Poplarville, in Pearl River County.[3]
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#Mississippi
Bay Saint Louis is a tiny and beautiful fishing and arts village that was washed away. Waveland is right next to it and is considered as "part of the Bay area" and was also massively destroyed. Pass Christian is a sleepy village next to Long Beach where I live and it was pretty much washed away. Their priorities are so straight that instead of building up more local businesses in the Pass and in Long Beach, they went and opened up a Yacht Club while people are still wallowing in debt, sorrow, and rubble.
Whenever you ask about the storm or when you eavesdrop on others conversing about it, you can't help but notice that omnipresent tone of sadness. People were found dead up in trees. Whole cities and their local businesses and historical landmarks and beautiful coast-line-hugging highways just washed away, nothing to ever be the same again.
I was going to make a post like this back during Labor Day Weekend but I had to work all that weekend and then we were all trying to dodge Hurricane Gustav. The local paper, The Sun Herald, has several areas of their website devoted to Katrina and the intensity with which the storm is still felt in these communities.
Gabriel and I will bring it up because going down Highway 90 means to see this destruction in every day life. The beach and its docks are still, for the most part, visibly weakened and somewhat destroyed. Local businesses that lined Highway 90 and anything south of the railroad tracks have mostly yet to return. People want to rebuild and go back to "normal" but this is now the norm which we must face.
Before and After photos of the area and the damage
Wiki article about Katrina
Effects of Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi - wiki
search for "Katrina" in Mississippi, September 2005
Hurricane Katrina made true landfall in Mississippi not too far from where I am living now and the effects are still blatant and felt.
After making a brief initial landfall in Louisiana, Katrina had made its final landfall near the state line, and the eyewall passed over the cities of Bay St. Louis and Waveland as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph (195 km/h).[3] Katrina's powerful right-front quadrant passed over the west and central Mississippi coast, causing a powerful 27-foot (8.2 m) storm surge, which penetrated 6 miles (10 km) inland in many areas and up to 12 miles (20 km) inland along bays and rivers; in some areas, the surge crossed Interstate 10 for several miles.[3] Hurricane Katrina brought strong winds to Mississippi, which caused significant tree damage throughout the state. The highest unofficial reported wind gust recorded from Katrina was one of 135 mph (217 km/h) in Poplarville, in Pearl River County.[3]
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#Mississippi
Bay Saint Louis is a tiny and beautiful fishing and arts village that was washed away. Waveland is right next to it and is considered as "part of the Bay area" and was also massively destroyed. Pass Christian is a sleepy village next to Long Beach where I live and it was pretty much washed away. Their priorities are so straight that instead of building up more local businesses in the Pass and in Long Beach, they went and opened up a Yacht Club while people are still wallowing in debt, sorrow, and rubble.
Whenever you ask about the storm or when you eavesdrop on others conversing about it, you can't help but notice that omnipresent tone of sadness. People were found dead up in trees. Whole cities and their local businesses and historical landmarks and beautiful coast-line-hugging highways just washed away, nothing to ever be the same again.
I was going to make a post like this back during Labor Day Weekend but I had to work all that weekend and then we were all trying to dodge Hurricane Gustav. The local paper, The Sun Herald, has several areas of their website devoted to Katrina and the intensity with which the storm is still felt in these communities.
Gabriel and I will bring it up because going down Highway 90 means to see this destruction in every day life. The beach and its docks are still, for the most part, visibly weakened and somewhat destroyed. Local businesses that lined Highway 90 and anything south of the railroad tracks have mostly yet to return. People want to rebuild and go back to "normal" but this is now the norm which we must face.