Abandoned places - Gulfport & Long Beach, MS (part 1)

[jj_maccrimmon]

Over the weekend, I went on a tear editing and uploading photos from multiple trips and explorations. Five separate explorations from around the region are loaded and I'll start sharing those images now.

Little over a week ago, I had the pleasure to drive down to Gulfport, MS to shoot with a friend and lovely model named "Twisted Doll" porcelainmistre (Model

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[sunnydays4me]

Good shoot dude.

[jj_maccrimmon]

Several of the places on this trip are in Long Beach as well. We started to drive the 6 miles over to Bay St Louis, but storms in the area made us we think our plan. She told me that though the eye came ashore in the Bay, the highest winds to the east of the eye, hit Long Beach and Gulfport directly. There was block after block along the beach road that was nothing but foundations and empty parking lots for buildings that only exist in memories.

[luxobscura]

The shooting was prime in December of 05, the first time I was down there.

[luxobscura]

Everything in front of the railroad grade in Long Beach was destroyed pretty much. Most everything behind it was okay. That coastal strip, though...closest thing most people, who got to see it in the early months, will ever get to seeing what an atomic bomb would do, minus the fire damage. Other than that, it looked worse than some pictures I've seen of Hiroshima.

[awfulhorrid]

I was stationed in Gulf Port MS for my USAF tech training school at Keesler AFB back in 1989. To be perfectly honest, a lot of the local buildings already looked much like this! I think Katrina just made the overall effect more wide-spread than it already was.

Good pictures and descriptions!

[jj_maccrimmon]

The photo couldn't do the building justice because it looked like it had the benfit of years of clean up. I'd been down to this region for USAF deployments too and the number of abandoned sites is still completely off the scale.