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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 14, 2018Recent Bylines Bay Saint Louis, Biloxi, Christian Science Monitor, Gulf Coast, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Mississippi, Pass Christian 0

A very thin blue line

White pauses for a moment as he passes the spot where the library still stands. With a distant look in his eyes, he softly admits that he hasn’t had a raise or vacation in three years. But, for him, it isn’t about the money. He says it’s about the little things, like making a child smile or giving a ride to an elderly resident to spare her the grueling walk down streets still laden with debris. There are moments like last week, when a frantic mother called from her job to say her 8-year-old son had found a gun in the woods.

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Carmen Sisson February 28, 2007 October 14, 2018Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, disaster, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, law enforcement, Mississippi, Pass Christian 1

After Katrina, football rallies a town

Friday night’s game allows residents a chance to get away, but no one forgets. Approximately 236 people died in Mississippi, 95 in Harrison County. Seventeen of those people were pulled from the muddy waters of this field, where the Pirates are now battling Poplarville. Rather than being sacrilegious, it seems appropriate – football is a fiercely loved pastime here, and there’s never been a better place to be, even before Katrina made the Pirates the only show in town.

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Carmen Sisson September 29, 2006 October 14, 2018Published Favorites, Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, football, hurricane, Hurricane Katrina, Pass Christian, sports 1
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