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Lessons from BP oil spill: Tap the power of the people

The moment Gulfport, Miss., resident Megan Jordan feared has arrived. The viscous onslaught of crude is no longer an abstract horror belonging to Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida. The first globules of oil have slipped through the Mississippi Sound and washed ashore in nearby Ocean Springs. For Ms. Jordan and her neighbors, this isn’t just any beach – it’s the keeper of memories, the provenance of dreams. The destruction is hard to bear. Their passion, properly channeled, could become a crucial element in future oil spill defense.

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Carmen Sisson July 10, 2010 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines BP, Christian Science Monitor, Deepwater Horizon, environment, Gulfport, Mississippi, oil spill, oilspill, volunteerism

No Katrina, but Gustav still hurt

Jim Pollard, public information officer for neighboring Harrison County, says he remembers a chilling moment during Katrina when officials at Hancock County’s Emergency Operation Center — believed to be on safe ground — called him on the phone and told him the building was rapidly filling with water. “They all wrote numbers on their arms with indelible ink, then listed their names and numbers on a sheet of paper, put it in a Ziploc bag, and tacked it to the roof,” Pollard says. “We were taping final messages from them to their families.”

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Carmen Sisson September 1, 2008 October 14, 2018Recent Bylines disaster, Gulfport, hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi, TIME 0

Waiting for Gustav on the Gulf

Only a few lonely cars were heading west Sunday morning beneath a canopy of gnarled oaks along Scenic Highway 90 in coastal Mississippi. To their right, stark reminders of Hurricane Katrina — bare slabs where homes once stood, damaged streets which once led to vibrant downtowns, trees still festooned with insulation and tarpoleons meant to protect buildings that no longer exist. To their left, a steady snarl of traffic snaked its way eastward as residents from Louisiana and Mississippi fled the wrath of Hurricane Gustav, expected to make landfall as a Category 3 hurricane Monday morning southeast of Louisiana in Plaquemines Parish.

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Carmen Sisson September 1, 2008 October 14, 2018Recent Bylines disaster, Gulfport, hurricane, Hurricane Gustav, Mississippi, TIME 1
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