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Fr. Rick's Sermon Upon Return (mp3 format) |
All of these pictures were taken by team members on the week of June 17-24, 2006 - nearly 10 months after the storm. These pictures don't even begin to describe the enormity of the disaster. The scope of the destructive wake of Hurricane Katrina is so incredible, that pictures and words are reduced to total incompleteness. Entire towns and cities are gone: you would only know that a city, or subdivision, or development used to be there because an (old) map indicates it, and because of the concrete slabs that remain eerily behind. One witness of the disaster in the weeks after Katrina hit said that it must have been what Nagasaki looked like. Another witness, a participant in the recovery efforts in New York City after 9/11, said 9/11 wasn't even comparable to this.
The surge and waves of Katrina were absolutely devastating. Virtually no business or home survived the onslaught in the municipalities of Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach, Pass Christian, Waveland, or Bay St. Louis.
Where there once were homes, there is now nothing. The small 'pile' of bricks in the foreground is all that remains of stairs leading to a house.
Obviously, once a beautiful house.
The entire first two floors of this casino were totally gutted. Several casinos which sat on barges were found lifted out of the water and sitting on land hundreds of feet from where they sat tranquilly on the water.