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Mississippi Gulf Coast: 10 yrs after Katrina

Mary and Thomas Robinson

New condominiums are flanked by vacant lots festooned with faded “For Sale” signs. On some properties, a chimney or staircase tells the story of what was once there, while others hold no clues beyond the concrete slab Katrina left behind. And even these are beginning to disappear as the earth reclaims itself, burying the past beneath impenetrable layers of mud and tangled weeds.

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Carmen Sisson August 29, 2015 October 3, 2015Recent Bylines Bay Saint Louis, Biloxi, Christian Science Monitor, Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Mississippi, Pass Christian 0

Fire chief risked jail to fight oil spill

In the end, Magnolia Springs did not need BP or Mr. Obama or the governor in Montgomery. It needed the grit and determination of the people themselves – people like Hinton, who says he will stand chest-deep in the waters of the bay, linked arm in arm with his neighbors, if that’s what it takes to stop the encroaching oil from despoiling the sublime latticework of bogs and bayous that he calls home.

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Carmen Sisson June 15, 2010 August 16, 2014Published Favorites, Recent Bylines Alabama, BP, Deepwater Horizon, environmentalism, fire department, Gulf, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, Jamie Hinton, Magnolia Springs, oil spill, oilspill, volunteerism 2

Loan fund builds hope in New Orleans

Katrina

There are jobs, but there aren’t enough. There is housing, but there is not enough. Yet there is growing optimism as well. There is progress, albeit slow, and there is a brighter future on the horizon, albeit distant. And there are volunteers here — people of all faiths, people from all walks of life — bonded by a common determination to bring this battered city, along with the entire Gulf Coast, back to life.

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Carmen Sisson December 22, 2008 August 18, 2014Recent Bylines Disaster News Network, faith-based, Gulf Coast, housing, Hurricane Katrina, interfaith, Jewish, Louisiana, New Orleans, religion 1
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