Katrina's Impact on Mississippi Gulf Coast
Wednesday, January 18th, 2017 12:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jesse_the_kUntil we arrived I didn't understand that Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast even harder than New Orleans. As this Photos from Katrina1 site illustrates in gory detail, huge portions of Ocean Springs, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pass Christian were flattened.
These towns are connected by US 90, aka Beach Boulevard. The casinos rebuilt, but the majority of the shorefront is now grass lots with flyspecked "for sale" signs.
This may have been one hinge point for the "two realities" issues the US is facing in news and politics. At the time, Mississippians felt abandoned. The national news was (if only briefly) packed with New Orleans stories, but the Gulf Coast experience wasn't told.
From the Biloxi TV station, here's a before-during-after trip down US 90. (No narration, just minor-key music.)
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www.photosfromkatrina.com/ ↩︎
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Date: 2017-01-23 05:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-23 06:13 pm (UTC)There are two other public gulf courses, one in City Park (http://www.azaleacitygolfcourse.com/) and one on the Spring Hill College campus (http://www.springhillcollegegolfcourse.com/). All of those are 15-20 minutes from my house, so really not far.
If I don't have my car by Friday (here's hoping!!!), I get home with son at 11:15 AM from teaching and am free after that. I'd love to have you come visit or meet somewhere. Email me? (cathexys at gmail)