Re: Mississippi Gulf Coast

dogsnus wrote:
On Tuesday of last week we finally took the drive over @ 50 miles
from home to view the damage there some 4 months after Hurricane
Katrina went through. This is the area closest to the western eyewall and
even though the news still focuses mostly on New Orleans, this
area is far worse, IMO. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves
and keep in mind that the row after row of FEMA trailers aren't shown here nor are the "standing" structures with blue tarps
such as shopping areas that are still vacant. These are small towns,
*Pearlington had a population of around 1600 or so prior to Katrina,
and is situated in the middle of the Stennis Space Center rocket testing
facility for NASA in the buffer zone. The Bay St. Louis Beachfront photo
shown is bare of what used to be a town on both sides of the road with
Waveland (gone) in the distance. I was trying to find the spot where the
family and I stood last year as my Grand-daughter caught her first glimpse
of the Gulf of Mexico but I had to guess as there weren't enough land
marks left to identify that exact spot. What's shown is my guesstimate
of a restaurant we ate at on the deck over the water.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/BaySt.LouisBeachfront
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/BaySt.LouisBridge4monthslater
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Christmas2005.jpg
(I have no idea who those guys were but there were at any time 30 or so
people who had come to stand there and gaze at the bridge when we were
there.)

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/HouseFrame.JPG
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Mississippi3.JPG
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Pearlington.jpg
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Pearlington3.JPG
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Pearlington5.JPG
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Pearlington_exterior.jpg
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Pearlington_interior.jpg
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/ToPassChristian3.JPG
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/WAveland9.JPG
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Waveland.jpg
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Waveland11.JPG
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Waveland2.jpg
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Waveland3.jpg
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Waveland6.JPG
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsnus/images/Waveland8.JPG 


*Pearlington is the home town of my husband's maternal side of the
family. The old house is the 175 year structure shown with the
water marks inside the house visible. The house is raised off
the ground by several feet. It needed a lot of TLC prior to this
but now I'm fairly certain it's going to have to be leveled completely.
Inside is construction not shown of solid one piece cypress beams
typical of the construction of those days. You can still see the
marks of the hand plane used to smoothe the beams. The structure
was too unsafe for us to enter, though. The front porch collapsed
under our feet as we tried to go inside the front door.

Terri



Incredible. It would take thousands and thousands of words and still not convey the magnitude of it all ... the pictures say it all.
SueK
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