Comments on: Hurricane Katrina in South Mississippi

Hurricane Katrina in South Mississippi

ColdChef — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:26:39 -0800

Hurricane Katrina in South Mississippi Before and after photos.

By: elpapacito

elpapacito — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:40:26 -0800

Good find ! I wonder why they didn't just make a list :o

By: antifuse

antifuse — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:55:16 -0800

Great shots, but horribly designed site. Individual flash popups for each before/after? While I appreciate that there's a story to go along with each one, I got really bored after 2 of them.

By: safetyfork

safetyfork — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:56:23 -0800

Thanks for the link ColdChef. Katrina's impact on South MS has always seemed under-reported on the National level (which is not to say that Katrina + NOLA were or are sufficiently reported on, either). / bias: family in Gautier, MS.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:01:27 -0800

While I agree the site is poorly designed, I found the content compelling enough to overlook it. YMMV.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:03:17 -0800

I clicked through a bunch and this one seems the most dramatic.

By: MapGuy

MapGuy — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:17:56 -0800

I was there in Hancock County. This area seems to have gotten less attention. We saw few reporters on the ground compared to how we were tripping over them to the East and West. If you scroll down you will see a link to a book about what we saw. I don't know if he has any books left but there are pictures on his web site.

By: raysmj

raysmj — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:21:41 -0800

Great site. Little can compare, however, to seeing this in person, and driving down US 90 and seeing . I remember seeing the photos of a wrecked Gulf Shores, Ala. after Ivan and then driving down there about nine months later and thinking, Oh, it's recovering just fine, not even a fourth as bad as I was expecting. The Miss. Gulf Coast, nine months after Katrina, was a totally different story. If you'd ever seen the Miss. Coast before, you'd be brought at least close to tears, or just struck dumb.

By: bukharin

bukharin — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:32:16 -0800

By: jacquilynne

jacquilynne — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:36:27 -0800

The content is really compelling, but I do wish it was easier to get at.

By: mzurer

mzurer — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:37:50 -0800

Interesting find, but it seems like these are after not only the storm, but after the bulldozers as well. Damage to non-New Orleans areas certainly deserves more attention, though.

By: raysmj

raysmj — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:50:12 -0800

Well, Katrina's strom surge pretty much was a dozer.

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:51:42 -0800

Wow. Just wow. It breaks my heart to see all those historic houses, completely destroyed. Very cool, though, that the 1848 lighthouse survived almost intact.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:52:29 -0800

I liked these, ColdChef, thanks. And since someone from the site in question will probably be reading this thread, they should probably think about how much easier navigation would be if each page had a simple "next" and "previous" option. Forcing us to click back to the index each time is silly - if you want us to stick around, that is.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:28:01 -0800

Argh. I think the designers of that interface finally figured out how to cause physical pain over TCP/IP.

By: geoff.

geoff. — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:02:35 -0800

It's that "Real Cities" template or engine or whatever that runs these. Go to pretty much any Knight Ridder or non-major city's site and it looks exactly the same. The only difference are the names.

By: MapGuy

MapGuy — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:11:27 -0800

I am new to MeFi so pardon if this is bad form. Here are some shots of Katrina that I think capture the essence of what we saw. There was a 34 foot storm surge that washed away most of the houses. Debris was moved miles from where it had previously been attached to the earth. Surreal is an understatement.

By: thejoshu

thejoshu — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:22:09 -0800

I also wish this was one of the before/after sites that aligned the images. And didn't force the after shot to fade in...

By: photoslob

photoslob — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:23:48 -0800

Amazing. I drove through the Biloxi and Waveland area a few months ago and all I kept thinking was I wonder what it used to look like. Now I know.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:01:59 -0800

So, what's the likelihood of another one of these blowing through? Was Katrina a freak storm or just the tip of the iceberg?

By: PHINC

PHINC — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:04:24 -0800

Browster makes navigation pretty easy for a site like this.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:32:44 -0800

I am new to MeFi so pardon if this is bad form. There's nothing wrong with linking to personal sites in your comments as long as you're doing it to add extra information to the topic at hand and not to--you know, drive up your advertising revenues. Thanks for the excellent pictures.

By: haikuku

haikuku — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:20:02 -0800

Thanks for the post! Do you Know if Rosie O'Donnell ever built that park for the trailer city?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:24:15 -0800

She did. Sorry I haven't taken pictures yet. I'll swing by there this week.

By: batmonkey

batmonkey — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:41:01 -0800

ColdChef: good stuff. I'll check out more at lunch...heartbreaking and valuable stuff, and it feels petty to say that I'll wait 'til it's convenient, but that's life, eh? mapguy: definitely a value add to the thread, as ColdChef said. Thank you for posting your images. If the FPP's site owner shows up: yes, do please consider using another gallery app for these. Please, please, please.

By: raysmj

raysmj — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:13:36 -0800

I too have a number of shots from Biloxi and Gulfport and environs up in a post-Katrina gallery, but all shots were taken in mid-May, rather than immediately after the disaster. The scenes are still, however, not pretty. Get a load, for instance, of the US 90 bridge between Biloxi and Ocean Springs. (Last I had heard, there was a holdup in the bridge's demolition and reconstruction, given disputes over whether to rebuild it as it was or to make it a six-lane, high-rise bridge. But an article from the Jackson MS daily says bids on a six-land bridge were let last week, and that the project should be at least nearly complete--that is, open for limited travel--by November 1997.)

By: Toekneesan

Toekneesan — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:26:54 -0800

My folks live in Picayune, MS and my sister and her family in Pearl River, LA, just outside of Slidell. Both are just across Pontchartrain. On the weekend after the storm my father-in-law and I drove down from Pennsylvania to bring my sister supplies and bring my folks back to PA until things had settled down. I didn't have my camera, but as a second thought, bought a disposable camera at a gas station on the way down. These are those pictures from my flicker site. The first three in the set have a description of the trip and what it was like trying to get down there. I wrote it the night after I got back. I was a little loopy. My family was very lucky and both of their homes escaped a lot of the devastation around them. Now they're dealing with an infrastructure crisis. The population of their towns has quadrupled in the last 9 months with the influx of refugees and recovery workers. I just got back from a conference in NOLA and a visit with my family and the thing that struck me was that while recovery is occurring, it's slow and seems dependent on the economic status of the community. Though not entirely as this picture proves. This Flicker set contains pictures from my trip last week. I wouldn't call either set truly representitive as I wasn't really there to take pictures, and neither time did I have my own camera, but they might provide a sense of how things have and haven't changed.

By: MapGuy

MapGuy — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:02:13 -0800

Thanks ColdChef et. al. Photos were not my site. I contributed to the book but do not receive any benefit. My blog has no ads (does that crap actually make any money anyway?). If you have time check out the other good folks I worked with down there. We self funded volunteers, built a free wireless internet and VOiP network with donated equipment and computers. Over 10,000 calls were placed from shelters in the first week alone. It is still operating. Good Stuff. South of the high water mark I saw an America where there were no social, racial, political, or media agendas with spin. Just, mud, sweat and shoulders to the wheel. People helping people. Rest assured it will happen again. When it does, which side of that water line will you good folks be on?

By: homunculus

homunculus — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:35:41 -0800

A Legacy of the Storm: Depression and Suicide