Re: Mississippi Gulf Coast
- From: Don'tgo@xxxxxxxxx (The Watcher)
- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:58:59 GMT
On 3 Jan 2006 12:06:38 GMT, dogsnus <dogsnus@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
I've been telling people for months that what happened in New Orleans could have
been worse, but people don't seem to understand that. It doesn't seem to sink in
until it actually happens. :/
>In an insane society a sane man must appear insane ~ Spock
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